Hypocrisy Quotes - Page 28

• An old monkey never makes a pretty face.

  Francois Rabelais

  Monkeys, Faces, Pretty Face

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• Indeed, said the monk, a mass, a matins, and vespers well rung are half-said.

  Francois Rabelais

  Religion, Half, Monk

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• Really, there is no infidelity, nowadays, so great as that which prays, and keeps the Sabbath, and rebuilds the churches. The sealer of the South Pacific preaches a truer doctrine.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Infidelity, Religion, Church

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.97, Penguin

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• Our happiness often depends upon social hypocrisies to which we will never stoop.

  Honore de Balzac

  Happiness, Social, Stoops

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• People are beginning to become disturbingly comfortable with a kind of official hypocrisy. Bizarrely, for instance, we've become numb to the idea that rights aren't absolute but are enjoyed on a kind of sliding scale.

  Matt Taibbi

  Ideas, Rights, People

  Matt Taibbi (2014). “The Divide: American Injustice in the Age of the Wealth Gap”, p.11, Spiegel & Grau

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• To send a child to rot in the prison of Cuba for the alleged sake of his own well-being is criminal hypocrisy.

  Leonard Peikoff

  Children, Criminals, Cuba

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• There is not a greater paradox in nature,--than that so good a religion [as Christianity] should be no better recommended by its professors.

  Laurence Sterne

  Religion, Christianity, Paradox

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• The man Dickens, whom the world at large thought it knew, stood for all the Victorian virtues - probity, kindness, hard work, sympathy for the down-trodden, the sanctity of domestic life - even as his novels exposed the violence, hypocrisy, greed, and cruelty of the Victorian age.

  Robert Gottlieb

  Kindness, Hard Work, Men

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• Cant is the twin sister of hypocrisy.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Twins, Twin Sister, Cant

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• Pedantry in learning is like hypocrisy inn religion--a form of knowledge without the power of it.

  Joseph Addison

  Pedants, Form, Inns

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• College football today is one of the last great strongholds of genuine old-fashioned American hypocrisy.

  Noel Gallagher

  Football, College, Today

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• Hello my Country I once came to tell everyone your story Your passion was my poetry And your past my most potent glory Your promise was my prayer Your hypocrisy my nightmare And your problems fill my present Are we both going somewhere?

  Harry Chapin

  Country, Prayer, Passion

  Song: There Only Was One Choice, Album: Dance Band on the Titanic, 1977

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• If we move away from the American tradition of lawyers defending those with whom they vehemently disagree -- as we temporarily did during the McCarthy period -- we weaken our commitment to the rule of law... So beware of an approach which limits advocacy to that which is approved by the standards of political correctness.

  Alan Dershowitz

  Respect, Moving, Commitment

  Alan Dershowitz (2009). “Letters to a Young Lawer (Easyread Large Edition)”, p.50, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Every veil secretly desires to be lifted, except the veil of Hypocrisy.

  Richard B. Garnett

  Desire, Veils

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• At the same time, we can't blame comedians for taking time to learn. Any critic of comedy who believes that he has always, universally, been on the right side of justice is engaging in a hypocrisy that is itself a joke.

  Guy Branum

  Believe, Justice, Comedian

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• The main hangup in the world today is hypocrisy and insecurity. If people can't face up to the fact of other people being naked or smoking pot, or whatever they want to do, then we're never going to get anywhere. People have got to become aware that it's none of their business and that being nude is not obscene. Being ourselves is what's important. If everyone practiced being themselves instead of pretending to be what they aren't, there would be peace.

  John Lennon

  People, Smoking, Insecurity

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

  Paolo Bacigalupi

  Sex, Coffee, Together

  "The Windup Girl". Book by Paolo Bacigalupi, 2009.

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• Actually, we have misdefined "hypocrisy." Hypocrisy is not the failure to practice what you preach but the failure to believe it. Hypocrisy is propaganda.

  Peter Kreeft

  Believe, Practice, Propaganda

  "The Pillars of Unbelief". National Catholic Register, January - February 1988.

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• In England Giordano Bruno had given lectures on the plurality of worlds, and in that country had written, in Italian, his most important works. It added not a little to the exasperation against him, that he was perpetually declaiming against the insincerity, the impostures, of his persecutors - that wherever he went he found skepticism varnished over and concealed by hypocrisy; and that it was not against the belief of men, but against their pretended belief, that he was fighting; that he was struggling with an orthodoxy that had neither morality nor faith.

  John William Draper

  Country, Struggle, Fighting

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• There's a lot of ridiculous hypocrisy about sex in films today. And that's one of the reasons why I made 9 Songs, to say, "Why can't you put sex in a film?"

  Michael Winterbottom

  Song, Today, Ridiculous

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• There is some virtue in almost every vice, except hypocrisy; and even that, while it is a mockery of virtue, is at the same time a compliment to it.

  William Hazlitt

  Vices, Compliment, Virtue

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.1498, Delphi Classics

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• Who can describe
  Women's hypocrisies! their subtle wiles,
  Betraying smiles, feign'd tears, inconstancies!
  Their painted outsides, and corrupted minds,
  The sum of all their follies, and their falsehoods.

  Thomas Otway

  Women, Anger, Mind

  Thomas Otway (1812). “The Works of Thomas Otway: Consisting of His Plays, Poems, and Letters”, p.156

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• I was raised in a typical Puritan Midwestern Methodist home and there was a lot of hurt and hypocrisy in those times. And I think that whatever part Playboy played and that I managed to play in terms of the sexual revolution came out of what I saw in the negative part of that life and tried to change things in some positive way so that people could choose alternate personal ways of living their lives.

  Hugh Hefner

  Hurt, Home, Thinking

  "Hugh Hefner Reflects on Turning 80". "The Big Story" with John Gibson, www.foxnews.com. April 6, 2006.

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• Now I had lived long enough and had heard enough from urchins my age and from other slaves, to distrust the person who calls himself merciful, or just, or kindly. Usually these are the most cruel, niggardly and selfish people, and slaves learn to fear the master who prefaces his remarks with tributes to his own virtues.

  Elizabeth Borton de Trevino

  Selfish, People, Long

  Elizabeth Borton de Treviño (1999). “I, Juan De Pareja”, Turtleback Books

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• I know of but one garment which the fashionable social life of this country borrows of Christianity; it is that ample garment of charity which covers a multitude of sins--particularly fashionable sins.

  J. G. Holland

  Country, Charity, Sin

  J. G. HOLLAND (1866). “PLAIN TALKS ON FAMILIAR SUBJECTS”, p.59

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