Quotes About Hypocrisy

Most of us are aware of and pretend to detest the barefaced instances of that hypocrisy by which men deceive others, but few of us are upon our guard or see that more fatal hypocrisy by which we deceive and over-reach our own hearts.

There's a lot of people would say the same if they weren't all hypocrites. Old people are just a nuisance.' 'It's a good thing we don't all think like that, dear. Josh and me are glad to give a helping hand.

Parmi un assurdo che le leggi, che sono l'espressione della pubblica volontà, che detestano e puniscono l'omicidio, ne commettono uno esse medesime, e, per allontanare i cittadini dall'assassinio, ordinino un pubblico assassinio.

She took the kids to church on Sunday. he didn't go. Couldn't stand the hypocrisy of all those jerks acting holy, floating a saintly foot off the floor (like levitating demons, if you asked him) until they got back into the outside's worldly sewer, returning faster-than-light-speed to their regular gossip, bigotries, and backstabbing.

Hypocrite lecteur—mon semblable—mon frère[Hypocrite reader—my double—my brother]!

was odd that the French were so dignified in death but in life acted like shits squealing on each other.

If Satan ever laughs, it must be at hypocrites; they are the greatest dupes he has.

As no roads are so rough as those that have just been mended, so no sinners are so intolerant as those that have just turned saints.

Many speak the truth when they say that they despise riches, but they mean the riches possessed by others.

We often pretend to fear what we really despise, and more often despise what we really fear.

Keep up appearances whatever you do.

What a world of gammon and spinnage it is, though, ain't it!

He had used the word [humbug] in its Pickwickian sense.

There was a gay fiction among us that we were constantly enjoying ourselves, and a skeleton truth that we never did. To the best of my belief, our case was in the last respect a rather common one.

He [Old Mr. Turveydrop] was a fat old gentleman with a false complexion, false teeth, false whiskers, and a wig. He had a fur collar, and he had a padded breast to his coat, which only wanted a star or a broad blue ribbon to be complete. He was pinched in, and swelled out, and got up, and strapped down, as much as he could possibly bear.

T]hey somehow conveyed to me that they were all toadies and humbugs, but that each of them pretended not to know that the others were toadies and humbugs: because the admission that he or she did know it, would have made him or her out to be a toady and humbug.

But Rosa soon made the discovery that Miss Twinkleton didn't read fairly. She cut the love-scenes, interpolated passages in praise of female celibacy, and was guilty of other glaring pious frauds.

Mrs. Joe war eine sehr reinliche Hausfrau, doch sie verstand sich ausnehmend gut darauf, ihre Reinlichkeit bequemer und unerträglicher zu machen, als jeder Schmutz gewesen wäre. Die Reinlichkeit ist der Gottesfurcht verwandt, und manche verfahren mit ihrer Religion ganz genauso.

All other swindlers upon earth are nothing to the self-swindlers, and with such pretences did

Men who are thoroughly false and hollow, seldom try to hide those vices from themselves; and yet in very act of avowing them, they lay claim to the virtues they feign most to despise

Vice takes up her abode in many temples; and who can say that a fair outside shall not enshrine her?

There was a moral infection of clap-trap in him.

The leprosy of unreality disfigured every human creature in attendance

This is the even-handed dealing of the world!" he said. "There is nothing on which it is so hard as poverty; and there is nothing it professes to condemn with such severity as the pursuit of wealth!