Quotes About Hypocrisy

But people almost never say, "Die!", Paltry prudent, hypocrites.

A leader pompously voices his own views without the least hesitation. Do as I say, he proclaims. Then you, as well as your family and your village and your country and the whole world too will be secure. Gesturing grandly, he roars on about how disaster will come from ignoring him. But then, as has happened time after time, his favorite prostitute gives him the cold shoulder, and this makes him cry out desperately for the abolition of her kind.

I tell you, those shit-eating bastards, with their primping and posing and pompous speeches, have gone and destroyed the whole country. If they'd all been timid, bashful little fellows, we wouldn't be in this mess today.

But rather than the patronizing "But being decadent is the only way to survive!" of some who criticize me, I would far prefer to be told simply to go and die. It's straightforward. But people almost never say, "Die!" Paltry, prudent hypocrites!

I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all the time. That would be hypocrisy.

It is perfectly monstrous the way people go about nowadayssaying things against one, behind one's back, that are absolutely and entirely true.

Self denial is the shining sore on the leprous body of Christianity.

Give a man a mask and he will show his true face.

I won't tell you that the world matters nothing, or the world's voice, or the voice of society. They matter a good deal. They matter far too much. But there are moments when one has to choose between living one's own life, fully, entirely, completely—or dragging out some false, shallow, degrading existence that the world in its hypocrisy demands. You have that moment now. Choose!

The deadliest Pharisaism today is not hypocrisy, but unconscious unreality.

Be careful that you don't become a hypocrite by spending all your time trying to get others right with God before you worship Him yourself.

Be careful that you don't become a hypocrite by spending all your time trying to get others right with God before you worship Him yourself.

When a man says that he approves something in principal, it means he hasnt the slightest intention of putting it in practice.

When you say you agree to a thing in principle you mean that you have not the slightest intention of carrying it out in practice.

When you say that you agree with a thing in principle you mean that you have not the slightest intention of carrying it out in practice.

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

To vice, innocence must always seem only a superior kind of chicanery.

Polite lies, polite lies! They are the decorous garment, and the fitting food, of the world. To be in the fashion, I shall have to treat you to them before I have done.

I have danced the fandango; no more able to help myself when the girl and the castanets began, than the holy cardinals, who, when they came to Madrid to excommunicate the cachuca, ended by joining in it! Like the rest of us, I suppose, they found forbidding a thing to other people, very easy and pleasant, but going without it themselves rather more difficult.

Making fun of born-again Christians is like hunting dairy cows with a high powered rifle and scope.

These were people who believed everything about the Soviet Union was perfect, but they were bringing their own toilet paper.

Sex and hypocrisy. They go together like coffee and cream.

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A man who doles out sweets, and slaps, with the same hand.