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Quotes About Hypocrisy

And I loathe people who find it harder to put up with a gown askew than with a soul askew and who judge a man by his bow, his bearing and his boots.
~ Michel de Montaigne
God defend me from being an honest man according to the description which every day I see made by each man to his own glorification
~ Michel de Montaigne
It was one of the most disgusting spectacles I've ever seen-- this white-haired old man, who should have been thinking of the hereafter, standing there lying like an actor.
~ P. G. Wodehouse
A man who doles out sweets, and slaps, with the same hand.
~ Patricia McCormick
A bad man becomes worse when he apes a saint.
~ Publilius Syrus
Our Lord did not say it was wrong to pray in the corners of the street, but He did say it was wrong to have the motive to "be seen of men".
~ Oswald Chambers
Do you expect sincerity in man when hypocrisy is the very keynote of human nature? We are nurtured on it; we are schooled in it, we live by it; and we rarely realize it.' – Book 3, Chapter 16
~ Rafael Sabatini
The greatest superstition now entertained by public men is that hypocrisy is the royal road to success.
~ Robert Green Ingersoll
Men judge of Christians by taking as fair samples those that lie rotten on the ground.
~ Henry Ward Beecher
Conscience is a cudgel which all men pick up in order to thwack their neighbors instead of applying it to their own shoulders.
~ Honore de Balzac
Even virtue followed beyond reason's rule May stamp the just man knave, the sage a fool.
~ Horace
Man Of Steel looks great, is well cast, and is, moralistically, completely rotten to the core.
~ Jamie McKelvie
Men blush less for their crimes than for their weaknesses and vanity. [Fr., Les hommes rougissent moins de leur crimes que de leurs faiblesses et de leur vanite.]
~ Jean de la Bruyere
God's everywhere, but I gotta go down (to church) to see him? Really? And he's mad at me down there, and I owe you money?
~ Bill Burr
I hate the things they preach. They found a gimmick that sells. The fact that they're making money off all these teenage kids who actually believe in their message is disgusting.
~ Christina Ricci
Pass the pub that wrecks your body And the church, all they want is your money
~ Steven Morrissey
Flattery is false money, which would not be current were it not for our vanity.
~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld
When something is dirty you wash it. That's what my mum always said.Yet...When you have dirty money and you launder it, people jump up and down.I guess that's life.
~ Anthony T. Hincks
I don't like bullshit and pretense.I can't enjoy the joy at church...without some cash in my wallet.
~ Toba Beta, Master of Stupidity
And these are the sametype of people who killthe innocent andjustify it by saying"They've gone to bewith Jesus now"But we won't talkabout how theycrucified Him, too
~ Phil Volatile
I'm being hypocritical because I have a Twitter, but I try to not talk about things like, 'Oh, I had a grapefruit this morning and it was delicious,' because, who cares?
~ Zoey Deutch
Friday and Saturday nights have a funny way of revealing what we really believe on Sunday mornings.
~ Mark Hart
Hypocrisy is the mother of all evil and racial prejudice is still her favourite child.
~ Don King
He referred to me as an 'insufferable puffed-up prat'. This is a bit rich coming from a man who actually married his own mother.
~ Steven Morrissey