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Quotes About Hypocrisy

What's scummy about the music industry is that everybody loves you when you're dead.
~ Nikki Sixx
False face must hide what the false heart doth know.
~ William Shakespeare
As Shakespeare put it in 'King Lear,' the policeman who lashes the whore has a hot need to use her for the very offense for which he plies the lash.
~ Christopher Hitchens
I learned that very often the most intolerant and narrow-minded people are the ones who congratulate themselves on their tolerance and open-mindedness.
~ Christopher Hitchens
You don't say 'they all do it' unless you know you've been doing it too.
~ Christopher Hitchens
And we know for a fact that the corollary holds true—that religion has caused innumerable people not just to conduct themselves no better than others, but to award themselves permission to behave in ways that would make a brothel-keeper or an ethnic cleanser raise an eyebrow.
~ Christopher Hitchens
There is no conceit equal to false modesty, and there is no politics like antipolitics
~ Christopher Hitchens
I have often wondered, that persons who make a boast of professing the Christian religion, namely, love, joy, peace, temperance, and charity to all men, should quarrel with such rancorous animosity, and display daily towards one another such bitter hatred, that this, rather than the virtues they claim, is the readiest criterion of their faith.
~ Christopher Hitchens
There is no conceit equal to false modesty, and there is no politics like antipolitics, just as there is no worldliness compare with ostentatious antimaterialism.
~ Christopher Hitchens
One feels almost laughably heavy-footed in pointing out that Mrs. Clinton's prim little book, It Takes a Village, proposes sexual abstinence for the young, and that the president was earnestly seconding this very proposal while using an impressionable intern as the physical rather than moral equivalent of a blow-up doll.
~ Christopher Hitchens
And now behold what this pious old trout hath wrought.
~ Christopher Hitchens
why has the blowjob had a dual existence for so long, sometimes subterranean and sometimes flaunted, before bursting into plain view as the specifically American sex act?
~ Christopher Hitchens
Imponderable Sir, I presume from some if not all of your many reputations that you might prefer honest and convinced unbelief to the hypocritical and self-interested affectation of faith or the smoking tributes of bloody altars.
~ Christopher Hitchens
Nothing optional—from homo-sexuality to adultery—is ever made punishable unless those who do the prohibiting (and exact the fierce punishments) have a repressed desire to participate. As Shakespeare put it in King Lear, the policeman who lashes the whore has a hot need to use her for the very offense for which he plies the lash.
~ Christopher Hitchens
ground)—"He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone at her"—has entered our literature and our consciousness. This episode
~ Christopher Hitchens
He always had a problem with the purity of others. Never his own.
~ Christopher Moore
Oh, do fuck off. You Muslims and your aversion to drink. Fucking slaughter the greater part of the Western fucking world in Allah's name, but someone wants to toast to your health and suddenly it's all piety, prayer, throw out the pork, and let's put draperies around the women.
~ Christopher Moore
Nothing evokes the prurient like puritanism.
~ Christopher Moore
Jesus was a good guy, he didn't need this shit.
~ Christopher Moore
Nobody likes a dead whore.
~ Christopher Moore
no somos más que políticos: vociferantes putas de la retórica. Lazarus
~ Christopher Moore
Ach, leck mich doch. Ihr Mohammedaner mit eurem Widerwillen gegen den Trunk. Da wird der größte Teil der westlichen Scheißwelt in Allahs Namen abgeschlachtet, aber wenn mal jemand auf euer Wohl anstoßen möchte, ist die Rede plötzlich nur noch von Frommsein und Beten und kein Schweinefleisch und hängen wir unsere Frauen mit Gardinen zu.
~ Christopher Moore
Ne pas se faire quelques ennemis de temps en temps, c'est de la lâcheté ou de l'hypocrisie.
~ Christopher Paolini
Leave it to Daddy Cool to kill a bird, then give it a funeral. Leave it to Daddy Cool to torture human kids at school all day long and never have his conscience
~ Christopher Paul Curtis