Quotes About Hypocrisy

All too often those who extol most loudly the virtues of selflessness turn out to be motivated by greed and ambition.

He also sees the good qualities in your life and the willingness in your spirit—even more than you can see them yourself. We try to obey God but stumble outwardly. By doing this, we mirror what Samuel did when he was anointing David; we look at the outward appearance. When we stumble, we feel as if we are total hypocrites, and then we want to quit. God sees us fall, but He also sees the cry in our hearts to obey Him and succeed. Many times this truth has given me the courage to go on.

The way I see it, all governments are just a different flavour of bastard.

Let they who are without a shameful past cast the first grenade.

That's what I've never been able to get about religion: that charmless combination of altruism and insanity. Give me a cynical, self-interested bastard any day of the week; at least you can play chicken with him and know he'll stick to the rules.

Saying you believe in something is one thing but living like you believe is often another. If your words and actions disagree, which will more loudly declare your beliefs?

There is no horror, no cruelty, sacrilege, or perjury, no imposture, no infamous transaction, no cynical robbery, no bold plunder or shabby betrayal that has not been or is not daily being perpetrated by the representatives of the states, under no other pretext than those elastic words, so convenient and yet so terrible: "for reasons of state."

Casey meant it when she said, 'Forgive us for our debts as we forgive our debtors,' because they were for her the hardest words to live by, and by saying them, she hoped they'd become possible. Like Ted, Casey would never discuss her ambivalent views on religion. She was honest enough to admit that her privacy cloaked a fear: the fear of being found out as a hypocrite" (Free Food For Millionaires, p.100-101.)

he was the clean wrapper for a filthy deed.

When a woman is very, very bad, she is awful, but when a man is correspondingly good, he is weird.

The robber owns riches, [the noble] is a thief.

Like many humorless and indignant people, he is hard on everybody but himself, and does not perceive it when he fails his own ideal.

What a terrible thing to be a great lord, yet a wicked man.

Displaying vice to the mockery of men deals it a great blow. Men put up with admonition but are loath to be mocked. One might be willing to be wicked; one cannot bear to appear foolish.

C'est un parleur étrange, et qui trouve toujours L'art de ne vous rien dire avec de grands discours.

No, you shall be, my faith! Tartuffified.

l'hypocrisie est un vice à la mode, et tous les vices à la mode passent pour vertus.

What! Just because a rascal boldly duped you With pompous show of false austerity, Must you needs have it everybody's like him, And no one's truly pious nowadays?

TARTUFFE. If Heaven is all that stands now in my way, I'll easily remove that little hindrance; Your heart need not hold back for such a trifle.

ELMIRE. But they affright us so with Heaven's commands! TARTUFFE. I can dispel these foolish fears, dear madam; I know the art of pacifying scruples Heaven forbids, 'tis true, some satisfactions; But we find means to make things right with Heaven.

Le scandale du monde, est ce qui fait l'offense; Et ce n'est pas pécher, que pécher en silence.

But how a man like you, who looks so wise And wears a moustache of such splendid size, Can be so foolish as to...

Je voudrais bien savoir pourquoi les gens qui se scandalisent si fort de la comédie de Molière ne disent mot de celle de Scaramouche." "La raison de cela, c'est que la comédie de Scaramouche joue le ciel et la religion, dont ces messieurs-là ne se soucient point; mais celle de Molière les joue eux-mêmes; c'est ce qu'ils ne peuvent souffrir.

Hay gente a la que no le importa pasar por mala, pero no soporta que se le ponga en ridículo.