Quotes About Hypocrisy

You can make a sordid thing sound like a brilliant drawing-room comedy. Probably a fear we have of facing up to the real issues. Could you say we were guilty of Noel Cowardice?

Why do we kill people who are killing people to show that killing people is wrong?

The manifestation of the disease of fear is anger, hate, sadness, envy, and hypocrisy; the result of the disease is all the emotions that make humans suffer.

I would rather be known in life as a honest sinner than as a lying hypocrite.

The theology you live out is much more important to your daily life than the theology you claim to believe.

Life is full of fake people.

When a woman is openly bad she is then at her best.

When we are young, everyone teaches us to talk and walk, but as we grow up, they tell us to shut up and sit down.

The only people who are mad at you for speaking the truth are people who are living a lie. Keep speaking the truth.

Fed up with people talking about two faced people. Excuse me but you are being two faced talking about them. We are all two faced. Drop it.

A vicious person, always affecting the same air of virtue before people whom he is anxious to keep from having any suspicion of his vices, has no register, no gauge at hand from which he may ascertain how far those vices (their continuous growth being imperceptible by himself) have gradually segregated him from the normal ways of life

That fellow Argencourt is well born but ill bred, a worse-than-second-rate diplomat, a loathsome husband and a womanizer, a double-faced stage character. He's one of those men who are incapable of understanding but perfectly capable of destroying the high things in life.

I said something friendly or even admiring to her. She was like almost all women, who imagine that the compliment they receive is a strict expression of the truth, that it is a judgment passed impartially, irresistibly, as though it applied to an art object unconnected with a particular individual. And so it was with a seriousness that made me blush at my own hypocrisy that she put the vain and artless question customary in such circumstances, "You like it?

Those who steal from private individuals spend their lives in stocks and chains those who steal from the public treasure go dressed in gold and purple.

Porque así es la gente, desgraciadamente. No se tragan entre ellos, pero para poner en solfa al otro estaban todos de acuerdo, y tan amistosamente, que parecían hermanos.

above all things; to remember that hypocrisy is the most hopeless as well as the meanest of crimes...

What people say, what people do, and what they say they do are entirely different things.

They're cloying, with their sancity-of-marriage act.

I think if you want to eat more meat you should kill it yourself and eat it raw so that you are not blinded by the hypocrisy of having it processed for you.

The hypocrisy and social sham of the world, and that I have mastered the following hard truths of life--that there is no love without lust--no friendship without self-interest--no religion without avarice--and no so-called virtue without its accompanying stronger vice. Who, knowing these things, would care to take part in them!

I've known for a long time that hypocrisy is the secret of sanity. You mustn't let them know you know.

Everybody's for democracy in principle. It's only in practice that the thing gives rise to stiff objections.

We were proclaiming ourselves political hypocrites before the world, by thus fostering Human Slavery and proclaiming ourselves, at the same time, the sole friends of Human Freedom.

Most Americans pay lip service to the idea of freedom, but can't handle real freedom.