Quotes About Hypocrisy

on the other hand, who would be a more dedicated gay-basher than a gay school board member? look at congress.

Christianity has long taught "Thou Shall Not Kill," but for centuries the most devastating killings have occurred constantly by Christians killing Christians, killing Buddhists, killing Moslems, killing Jews and killing members of their own family or the families of friends or associates.

She has new hair and new boobs, but her insides are still rotten.

We all have known good critics, who have stamped out poet's hopes; Good statesmen, who pulled ruin on the state; Good patriots, who, for a theory, risked a cause; Good kings, who disemboweled for a tax; Good Popes, who brought all good to jeopardy; Good Christians, who sat still in easy-chairs; And damned the general world for standing up. Now, may the good God pardon all good men!

The Devil's most devilish when respectable.

The way I saw it, nobody thought the worse of a man who followed his pecker anywhere it sniffed, like a droopy-faced hound dog led on by his nose. So why a woman did the same should be judged different… well, women always is.

They were the first ones to die, you know. You can't accuse them of hypocrisy. The Governors Assessed their creators first.

But what a horrible world 'society' is.

Society was self-interest given a pretty gloss.

Had she been male, she would have been granted a modicum of leeway, but as a woman she was damned as a whore

Look to the plank of wood in your own eye before you remove the mote of sawdust from mine

People are very inclined to set moral standards for others.

Such a moral stance makes virtually everyone a sinner and makes hypocrites out of many who are concerned about climate change but still partake in the benefits of modernity

Have you noticed that it is usually easier to judge than obey? Religious people are especially good at it. I tried

To deny love, and deceive it meanly by pretending that what is unconsummated remains eternal, or that love sublimated reaches highest to heavenly love, is repulsive, as the hypocrite's face is repulsive when placed too near the truth.

The most winning woman I ever knew was hanged for poisoning three little children for their insurance-money, and the most repellent man of my acquaintance is a philanthropist who has spent nearly a quarter of a million upon the London poor.

Heus, kuisheid is alleen iets voor de laagste klasse. [...] Ik ben nog nooit aan een hof geweest waar ze met de kuisheid erg nauw waren.

Look, we're all the same; a man is a fourteen-room house --in the bedroom he's asleep with his intelligent wife, in the living-room he's rolling around with some bareass girl, in the library he's paying his taxes, in the yard he's raising tomatoes, and in the cellar he's making a bomb to blow it all up.

You are pulling down heaven and raising up a whore

It seemed to him a thousand times worse to stand there as the only one unmasked amid a host of masks, than suddenly to stand naked among those fully dressed.

With people of only moderate ability modesty is mere honesty; but with those who possess great talent it is hypocrisy.

With people of limited ability modesty is merely honesty. But with those who possess great talent it is hypocrisy.

The multitude who cried "Hosanna to the Son of David," speedily changed to "Away with Him, Crucify Him.

en un mundo venal, hecho de hipocresía y falsas maneras, los poderosos, los buitres carroñeros, los envidiosos, los cobardes y los canallas suelen encubrirse unos a otros. Dios nuestro señor los crió a todos, y éstos vinieron juntándose desde siempre, y bien a su gusto, en nuestra infeliz España.