Quotes About Hypocrisy

Nothing that isn't a real crime makes a man appear so contemptible and little in the eyes of the world as inconsistency.

Men use thought only to justify their wrong doings, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts.

Satire lies about literary men while they live and eulogy lies about them when they die.

Of all bad men religious bad men are the worst.

One man doesn't believe in god at all, while the other believes in him so thoroughly that he prays as he murders men!

The Lord says: "These people come near to me with their mouth and honor me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me. Their worship of me is made up only of rules taught by men."

Those looking for ideology in the White House should consider this: For the men who rule our world, rules are for other people.

You know That I do fawn on men, and hug them hard, And after scandal them.

No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant.

It is easy for men to talk one thing and think another.

Nothing causes more consternation in a group of hypocrits than one honest man.

Backbite: To ''speak of a man as you find him'' when he can't find you.

Do not flatter yourselves with the belief that a mere recital of that celebrated verse in St. John makes a man a Christian.

One of the great tragedies of life is that men seldom bridge the gulf between practice and profession, between doing and saying.

The meanest, most contemptible kind of praise is that which first speaks well of a man, and then qualifies it with a But.

The hypocrite recognizes the honest man as his deadly enemy.

Most men had rather say a smart thing than do a good one. John P. Kotter, Leading Change.

By vulgarity I mean that vice of civilization which makes man ashamed of himself and his next of kin, and pretend to be somebody else.

Most celebrated men live in a condition of prostitution.

I have yet to meet a man as fond of high moral conduct as he is of outward appearances.

Virtue must be valuable, if men and women of all degrees pretend to have it.

Much though he recites the sacred texts, but acts not accordingly, that heedless man is like a cowherd who only counts the cows of others - he does not partake of the blessings of the holy life.

Men take more pains to mask than mend.

The man who is always talking about being a gentleman, never is one.