Quotes About Hypocrisy

Everybody is a hypocrite. You can't live on this planet without being a hypocrite.

Comedy actually works best when you're living in an OK world, and you are pointing out the hypocrisy in apathy.

Public displays of puritanical religiosity mask the private perversions of the real Washington behind closed doors.

I am shocked that both the Congress and SAD make fun of comedians.

It's funny that some of the people who complain the most about intelligence being politicized are the ones politicizing the intelligence.

You can have characters that say one thing and do another, and in certain kinds of drama, you can't get away with that because the audience will become confused - or certainly, the commissioners will become confused and tell you to stop doing it!

There is no distinctly American criminal class - except Congress.

When I saw corruption, I was forced to find truth on my own. I couldn't swallow the hypocrisy.

I'm from a fancy, well-raised background. We were very well-behaved and not allowed to swear. It's the kind of place where people hide their problems under the rug and pretend it's all perfect. Eventually, you get sick of that.

People make you feel like a bad guy for asking for seven quid for your album, like you are slapping them in the face, when they'll go and pay two grand for a scarf somebody knitted in a sweat shop and stitched a designer label on.

They call me 'sweet,' and 'gentle'; and some of the men go the length of calling me 'endearing,' and I laugh in my sleeve and think, 'Oh, Lord! If you but knew what a brimstone of a creature I am behind all this beautiful amiability!'

People are not what they seem. Some of them are sweet and kind to you, but that's not their real face.

It annoys me that we glorify sex symbols one day and make them apologise the next.

I know crowds of people who go to church and the synagogue who aren't religious.

We live in a country where posting 'Let's riot or something bruv!' on Facebook will get you a couple of years in prison, while writing a column saying we should bomb Syria is practically an entrance exam for public intellectuals.

One may be nice on the outside but on the inside isnt pretty

Because hypocrisy stinks in the nostrils one is likely to rate it as a more powerful agent for destruction than it is.

What would God think of her, sitting in this chapel, pretending to be holy? He knew the truth. He knew she was no friend of His.

Judge not lest ye be judged... for we all are sinners. But in the end Christians are only judged for the things they did do for God.

Modesty is the delicate form of hypocrisy.

La dialettica hegeliana si fondava sul coraggio fisico: colui che non ha paura sarà il padrone, colui che ha paura sarà lo schiavo. La dialettica romanzesca si fonda sull'ipocrisia: la violenza, lungi dal servire gli interessi di colui che la esercita, rivela l'intensità del suo desiderio; è dunque un segno di schiavitù.

d'ailleurs nous ne pouvons nous empêcher de constater que, comme tous les propagandistes, les apôtres de la tolérance sont très souvent, en fait, les plus intolérants des hommes.

At the dinner table, and with coffee in the office afterwards, Wolfe resumed on the subject he had started at lunch—Voltaire. The big question was, could a man be called great on account of the way he used words, even though he was a toady, a trimmer, a forger, and an intellectual fop.

Because an argument is used hypocritically, it does not necessarily follow that it is untrue.