Quotes About Hypocrisy

It is idle to talk of civil liberties to adults who were systematically taught in adolescence that they had none; and it is sheer hypocrisy to call such people freedom loving.

Do not treat others as you would not like to be treated' frees one from hypocrisy. 'Treat others as you would like to be treated' enslaves one with insincerity.

You're baloney without the mayo.

If you are a friend, why do you bite me so hard? If an enemy, why do you fawn on me?

A man can sleep around, no questions asked, but if a woman makes nineteen or twenty mistakes she's a tramp.

Congress is furious at the Secret Service for consorting with hookers, which has traditionally been Congress's role.

You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a fruit fly and still have room enough for three caraway seeds and a producer's heart.

When a man says he approves of something in principle, it means he hasn't the slightest intention of carrying it out in practice.

They tell you to be yourself and then judge you for it.

Society is funny. They ask you to be yourself and yet they judge you.

People tell you to just be yourself and to never change, then they're the first ones judge to you.

Hateful to me as the gates of Hades is that man who hides one thing in his heart and speaks another.

Almost every man wastes part of his life in attempts to display qualities which he does not possess, and to gain applause which he cannot keep.

The great majority of us are required to live a life of constant duplicity. Your health is bound to be affected if, day after day, you say the opposite of what you feel, if you grovel before what you dislike, and rejoice at what brings you nothing but misfortune.

Life is full of fake people, before you decide to judge them, make sure you are not one of them.

She likes herself, yet others hates, For that which in herself she prizes; And while she laughs at them, forgets She is the thing that she despises

There's nothing more solemn than truth. There's no greater grievance to a tomb than hypocrisy, or a greater tribute to death than truth

Some girls must get so exhausted putting makeup on two faces every morning.

Always be nice to people to their face. Then when they turn around, berate the back of their head.

Pero todos se sirven del mismo mazo, todos se alimentan de la misma mentira. Y nosotros leemos, y, a partir de esa lectura, creemos, votamos, discutimos, perdemos la memoria, nos olvidamos generosa, cretinamente, de que hoy dicen lo contrario de ayer, que hoy defienden ardorosamente a aquél de quien ayer dijeron pestes, y, lo peor de todo, que hoy ese mismo Aquél acepta, orgulloso y ufano, esa defensa.

La hipocresía es un vicio, pero no estoy tan convencido de que la franqueza sea siempre una virtud.

De pronto me di cuenta de que tanto ella como yo estábamos hablando con una franqueza hiriente que amenazaba traspasar la sinceridad y convertirse en un casi equivalente de la hipocresía.

Cuando la guerra se disfraza de paz, es la peor de las paces. Invade como ayuda, pero deja cenizas por donde pasa y muertes por doquier. La paz se vuelve hipócrita, los mansos no le sirven. Agrede a los otoños y les pisa las hojas. Y por si fuera poco, su razón de ser tiende a la sinrazón.

Quizá sea, después de todo, el más hipócrita, ya que no hace nada por zafarse.