logo

Quotes About Hypocrisy

Praise undeserved, is satire in disguise.
~ Alexander Pope
We, as Canadians, have no hesitation lecturing the rest of the world on what they should be doing, how they shouldn't discriminate, and how they should treat the poor. That same discrimination - unfairness that exists in so many of these countries - has been practised for years in our own country.
~ Paul Martin
Unfortunately, in American politics there are no standards for shame.
~ Mark McKinnon
Any society which enjoins its members to adhere to both of these (politeness and truth) is a fraud.
~ Idries Shah, Caravan of Dreams
People tell you to believe in yourself for your whole life, then call you arrogant when you begin taking their advice.
~ Curtis Tyrone Jones
If you Profess to love God yet Hate your neighbour. This is called Deception
~ Samuel Asumadu-Sarkodie
You can't rock the boat & act like you were just trying to put a baby to sleep.
~ Curtis Tyrone Jones
Those people who kill women, children, and defenseless civilians are about as Muslim as mass murderer Christopher Columbus was a Christian.
~ Immortal Technique
[Eve] sees through Satan's disquise of clever hypocrisy, identifies him, and exposes him for what he is...[ever since Satan has] had it in for women.
~ Hugh Nibley
There are no perfect women in the world; only hypocrites exhibit no defects.
~ Ninon de L'Enclos
I have women who offer to sleep with me all the time. But not men. They're all talk and nay action - as we'd say in Scotland.
~ Shirley Manson
There is so much hypocrisy in sports.
~ Dennis Rodman
Have you noticed the people most likely to be up in arms about governments apparently spying on us tend to be the most non-private people you know? The people launching petitions and wailing about Big Brother and data collection are most likely to be the most constant self-presenters.
~ Russell Smith
I don't live like liberals in a 5,000 square foot mansion.
~ Dan Bongino
I've always said it's easier for bands to make a hard stance - like, we don't do commercials or whatever, blah blah blah - when you've sold billions of records. It's super-easy to be righteous when you're rich.
~ Brian Fallon
Don't get me started about the media double standard.
~ Molly Ivins
We do all, myself included, we tend to hold ourselves to pretty low standards. But when it comes to judging public figures or politicians or people we've never met, we tend to hold people to very high standards, and, if we held ourselves to those standards, we'd always fall short.
~ Moby
All standards are double standards.
~ Tucker Carlson
The country has double standards - it's obsessed with fair skin on one hand, but if the woman is white, she is expected to be loose-moraled.
~ Kalki Koechlin
Every man alone is sincere. At the entrance of a second person, hypocrisy begins
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
This country was founded by a group of slave owners who told us that all men are created equal.
~ George Carlin
Speaking generally, men are ungrateful, fickle, hypocritical, fearful odanger and covetous ogain.
~ Niccolo Machiavelli
Hypocrisy is folly. It is much easier, safer, and pleasanter to be the thing which a man aims to appear, than to keep up the appearance of being what he is not.
~ Lord David Cecil
A Wolf eats sheep but now and then; Ten thousands are devour'd by men. An open foe may prove a curse, but a pretend friend is worse.
~ John Gay