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Quotes About Hypocrisy

All cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness.
~ Tennessee Williams
When a man has so far corrupted and prostituted the chastity of his mind, as to [profess] things he does not believe, he has prepared himself for the commission of every other crime.
~ Thomas Paine
With people of limited ability modesty is merely honesty. But with those who possess great talent it is hypocrisy.
~ Arthur Schopenhauer
I have learnt that we expect honesty and genuineness from others, while not being honest and genuine with our own self.
~ Aisha Mirza
Where there is hypocrisy, there is hope.
~ Kenneth E. Boulding
..Liberals see racism where it doesn't exist, fabricate it when they can't find it and ignore it within their own ranks.
~ Michelle Malkin
We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.
~ Aesop
Many come to bring their clothes to church rather than themselves.
~ Thomas Fuller
I feel about Photoshop the way some people feel about abortion. It is appalling and a tragic reflection on the moral decay of our society…unless I need it, in which case, everybody be cool.
~ Tina Fey
Most of us spend the first six days of each week sowing wild oats; then we go to church on Sunday and pray for a crop failure.
~ Fred Allen
And pictures of perfection, as you know, make me sick and wicked.
~ Jane Austen
It's been my experience that people who make proclamations about themselves are usually the opposite of what they claim to be.
~ Chelsea Handler
The humorist has a good eye for the humbug; he does not always recognize the saint.
~ W. Somerset Maugham
The irony of rule followers is they often quote a lot of people that do not follow as many rules as they do.
~ Shannon L. Alder
Oh, hey, kettle, I'm pot and wow, you're black." - Owen
~ Olivia Cunning, Tie Me
I can't believe what you say, because I see what you do.
~ James A. Baldwin
The worst form of injustice is pretended justice.
~ Plato
We would frequently be ashamed of our good deeds if people saw all of the motives that produced them.
~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld
We only acknowledge small faults in order to make it appear that we are free from great ones.
~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld
How many condemnations I have witnessed more criminal than the crime!
~ Michel de Montaigne
Why lie? I'm not going to be a hypocrite and say the opposite of what I think, like some others do.
~ Cristiano Ronaldo
Goodness that preaches undoes itself.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Saddest of all God's creatures in the world is the religious person who has disciplined himself to outward obedience but who has no inward love to God.
~ Walter Chantry
For is it not the common experience of all of us - you and I - that we do no incorporate the truth of these propositions in our lives? We say we know, but we do not do as we know. We say we believe, but we do not act like it.
~ James W. Sire