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Quotes About Hypocrisy

With people of only moderate ability modesty is mere honesty; but with those who possess great talent it is hypocrisy.
~ Schopenhauer
It is a public scandal that gives offence and it is no sin to sin in secret.
~ Moliere
We have two kinds of morality side by side: one which we preach but do not practice, and the other which we practice but seldom preach.
~ Bertrand Russell
Our laws make law impossible; our liberties destroy all freedom; our property is organized robbery; our morality an impudent hypocrisy; our wisdom is administered by inexperienced or mal-experienced dupes; our power wielded by cowards and weaklings; and our honour false in all its points. I am an enemy of the existing order for good reasons.
~ George Bernard Shaw
The best brought-up children are those who have seen their parents as they are. Hypocrisy is not the parents' first duty.
~ George Bernard Shaw
There is a certain satisfaction in coming down to the lowest ground of politics, for then we get rid of cant and hypocrisy.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Some praise at morning what they blame at night.
~ Alexander Pope
With faint praises one another damn.
~ William Wycherley
She heard the snuffle of hypocrisy in her prayer. She had to cease to pray.
~ George Meredith
Do as we say, and not as we do.
~ Giovanni Boccaccio
Modern kitchen - where the pot calls the kettle chartreuse.
~ Anonymous
People who live in glass houses should not throw stones.
~ English proverb
A man of words and not of deeds, Is like a garden full of weeds.
~ English proverb
He that is without sin among you, let him cast the first stone.
~ Bible
For that man is detested by me as the gates of hell, whose outward words conceal his inmost thoughts.
~ Homer
Woe unto you, when all men shall speak well of vou!
~ Bible
I have never been able to understand why pigeon-shooting at Hurlingham should be refined and polite, while a rat-killing match in Whitechapel is low.
~ T. H. Huxley
That kind of so-called housekeeping where they have six Bibles and no cork-screw.
~ Mark Twain
The vices we scoff at in others, laugh at us within ourselves.
~ Thomas Browne
The words of his mouth were smoother than butter, but war was in his heart; his words were softer than oil, yet were they drawn swords.
~ Bible
Hypocrites are double-edged knives.
~ Haitian proverb
George W. Bush will protect your unborn fetus then send your grown child to die in war.
~ Rick Claro, c.2005
Republicans are against abortion until their daughters need one, Democrats are for abortion until their daughter wants one.
~ Grace McGarvie, unverified
Every Independence Day since Khoudi could remember, the protests had grown, as people had woken to the irony of celebrating freedoms that existed only on paper.
~ Ishmael Beah