Quotes About Hypocrisy

If a man says, I love God, and yet hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who does not love his brother whom he has seen, how can he love God whom he has not seen? 21 And this commandment we have received from him, That he who loves God ought to love his brother also.

Having once thought that most of his parishioners shared the life-changing encounter with blazing beauty, it was all the harder for him to see them day after day preoccupied with petty jealousies, avarice, and lusts, and to endure their sullen expressions and bored irreverence as they went through the forms of weekly worship.

Any gang of politicos is like the eighth circle of Hell, but the American breed is specially awful because they take it seriously and believe it matters;

Why mayn't they do what men do?' the Hero cried impetuously. 'I hate that contemptible narrow-mindedness. It's that that makes the ruin and horrors I see. Why mayn't they do what men do? I like the women who are brave enough not to be hypocrites. By Heaven! if these women are bad, I like them better than a set of hypocritical creatures who are all show, and deceive you in the end.

Si la hipocresía es la distancia que hay entre nuestros principios y nuestro comportamiento, es muy fácil no ser nunca un hipócrita; basta con no tener ningún principio.

Cunt again? It was odd how men like Suggs used that word to demean women when it was the only part of a woman they valued.

Give me priests who are fat and corrupt and cynical,(...) the sort who like to sit on soft satin cushions, nibble sweetmeats, and diddle little boys. It's the ones who believe in gods who make the trouble. (Tyrion)

They're both bungholes who think they're too noble to shit,

A sweet face oft hides a sinner's heart.

The oft repeated jape about his father was just another lie, Lord Tywin Lannister in the end did not shit gold.

Cuando la gente se muere de hambre, no ve con buenos ojos a los sacerdotes que están tan gordos que no pueden caminar.

He is fair of face and foul of heart.

I'm the same as you. The only difference is, I don't lie about what I am. So kill me, but don't call me a murderer while you stand there telling each other that your shit don't stink.

The septons were always going on about how the Father Above judges us all. If the Father would be so good as to topple over and crush Joff like a dung beetle, I might even believe it.

There are no greater prudes than those women who have some secret to hide.

There are no more thorough prudes than those who have some little secret to hide.

Nothing is more generally known than our duties which belong to Christianity and yet, how amazing is it, nothing is less practiced?

You may have orthodox heads, and yet you may have the devil in your hearts.

God! how is it that we fail to recognize that the mask of pleasure, stripped of all hypocrisy, is that of anguish?

Woe unto you, when all men shall speak well of you.

Who dares think one thing, and another tell, My heart detests him as the gates of hell.

God has given you one face, and you make yourselves another.

Inconsistency is the only thing in which men are consistent.

Modesty died when false modesty was born.