Quotes About Hypocrisy

Sinful zeal doth make men doubly sinful.

But you can wake a man only if he is really asleep. No effort that you make will produce any effect upon him if he is merely pretending sleep.

What a terrible thing to be a great lord, yet a wicked man.

Arguments, like men, are often pretenders.

Every man in a bank hates what the bank does and yet the bank does it.

I love that man better who swears a stream as long as my arm yet deals justice to his neighbors and mercifully deals his substance to the poor, than the long, smooth faced hypocrite.

It is not the being seen of men that is wrong, but doing these things for the purpose of being seen of men. The problem with the hypocrite is his motivation.

Good and bad men are each less so than they seem.

Such antics do not amount to a man.

The French have a saying that whatever excellence a man may exhibit in a public station he is very apt to be ridiculous in a private one.

Of all things in the world that stink in the nostrils of men, hypocrisy is the worst.

Failure -- The man who can tell others what to do and how to do it, but never does it himself.

While the censorious man is most severe in judging others, he is invariably the most ready to repel any animadversions made upon himself...

A man is ridiculous less through the characteristics he has than through those he affects to have.

The man who wears the yellow-dyed robe but is not free from stains himself, without self-restraint and integrity, is unworthy of the robe.

A man may sink by such slow degrees that, long after he is a devil, he may go on being a good churchman or a good dissenter and thinking himself a good Christian.

Piety's hard enough to take among the poor who have to practice it. A rich man's piety stinks. It's insufferable.

When a man who accepts the Christian doctrine lives unworthily of it, it is much clearer to say he is a bad Christian than to say he is not a Christian.

White man makes guns? No problem. Black rapper says "gun"? Congressional hearing.

It's fine to be a great democrat when you've a slave to rub your boots on.

However wicked men may be, they do not dare openly to appear the enemies of virtue, and when they desire to persecute her they either pretend to believe her false or attribute crimes to her.

The most ingenious men continually pretend to condemn tricking--but this is often done that they may use it more conveniently themselves, when some great occasion or interest offers itself to them.

Pharisaism is not a degeneration in a good man: a large portion of it is rather the condition of all being-good.

Though the biggest fault of the big man is tolerated easily, the smallest fault of the little man is not endured at all!