Quotes About Hypocrisy

I think it's despicable to be on display and a fashion showoff.

Getting a moral lecture from the fashion industry is like Jeffrey Dahmer criticising your diet.

I think it's because most of us talk one way and live another. There are a few people who truly, truly walk the talk.

These are the fifties, you know. The disgusting, posturing fifties.

People who give off about fat-shaming and body-shaming are often the same people who talk about Trump's hair or how fat he is, or how old he is. The size of his hands and his fingers - that's the big one: let's all have a big laugh at his hands.

No one is so miserable as the poor person who maintains the appearance of wealth.

The virtue of some people consists wholly in condemning the vices in others.

Though by whim, envy, or resentment led, they damn those authors whom they never read.

My own belief is that there is hardly anyone whose sexual life, if it were broadcast, would not fill the world at large with surprise and horror.

Besides being driven around Manhattan by a chauffeur whose salary his father's company paid, in a Cadillac his father's company leased to 'scope out properties,' Donald's job description seems to have included lying about his 'accomplishments' and allegedly refusing to rent apartments to Black people.

I ever will profess myself the greatest friend to those whose actions best correspond with their doctrine; which, I am sorry to say, is too seldom the case amongst those nations who pretend most to civilization.

Why do you not practice what you preach.

Americans want to democratise us. OK, but why not go and democratise Saudi Arabia. Are we anything like Saudi Arabia? No, we are far from that. So why aren't they democratising Saudi Arabia? Because they are bastards, but they are their bastards.

You can be dressed the best and have a wicked heart.

Clinton's hands remain incredibly clean, don't they, and Tony Blair's smile remains as wide as ever. I view these guises with profound contempt.

The argument of socialists, that people really want to share, beyond a reasonable level of charity, is rubbish, though it is espoused by a lot of rich, pious hypocrites who want to share only enough to avoid widespread starvation, mob violence, and government seizure of more of their incomes.

You take somebody that cries their goddam eyes out over phoney stuff in the movies, and nine times out of ten they're mean bastards at heart.

There's a tendency, especially among revolutionaries, to only show the good side of yourself and then when you come to power, the bad side comes out.

Washington has a tendency to hold other powers to standards that it routinely flaunts - plain and simple.

In Hollywood people lie to each other and cheat each other and then go and play tennis. But I don't want to be a tennis player.

The term 'celebrity' makes my skin crawl.

You begin to realize that hypocrisy is not a terrible thing when you see what overt fascism is compared to sort of covert, you know, communal politics which the Congress has never been shy of indulging in.

If a politician murders his mother, the first response of the press or of his opponents will likely be not that it was a terrible thing to do, but rather that in a statement made six years before he had gone on record as being opposed to matricide.

How terribly downright must be the utterances of storms and earthquakes to those accustomed to the soft hypocrisies of society.