Hypocrisy Quotes - Page 5

• 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

  Honesty, Integrity, Believe

  Thomas Paine (1861). “The Age of Reason, etc”, p.1

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• Most of us are aware of and pretend to detest the barefaced instances of that hypocrisy by which men deceive others, but few of us are upon our guard or see that more fatal hypocrisy by which we deceive and over-reach our own hearts.

  Laurence Sterne

  Heart, Men, Deceiving

  Laurence Sterne (1853). “Works ...”, p.504

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• Kids have what I call a built-in hypocrisy antenna that comes up and blocks out what you're saying when you're being a hypocrite.

  Benjamin Carson

  Block, Hypocrite, Kids

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• There is a false modesty, which is vanity; a false glory, which is levity; a false grandeur, which is meanness; a false virtue, which is hypocrisy, and a false wisdom, which is prudery.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Vanity, Modesty, Virtue

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

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Inspirational, Honesty, Hypocrite

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• Hypocrisy and distortion are passing currents under the name of religion

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Names, Religion, Passing

  Mahatma Gandhi (1946). “Daridra-Narayana: Edited & Published by Anand T. Hingorani”

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• Hypocrisy is great fodder for comedy.

  Mo Rocca

  Comedy, Fodder

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• Manners are the hypocrisy of a nation.

  Honore de Balzac

  Manners, Nations

  Honore de Balzac (2014). “Analytical Studies: Physiology of Marriage and Petty Troubles of Married Life”, p.63, The Floating Press

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• Our fear of hypocrisy is forcing us to live in a world where gluttons are fine, so long as they champion gluttony.

  Jonah Goldberg

  Long, Champion, World

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• All reformers, however strict their social conscience, live in houses just as big as they can pay for.

  Logan Pearsall Smith

  Hypocrite, House, Pay

  'Afterthoughts' (1931) 'Other People'

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• Rude contact with facts chased my visions and dreams quickly away, and in their stead I beheld the horrors, the corruption, the evils and hypocrisy of society, and as I stood among them, a young wife, a great wail of agony went out from my soul.

  Victoria Woodhull

  Dream, Agony, Evil

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• If it were not for the intellectual snobs who pay - in solid cash - the arts would perish with their starving practitioners. Let us thank heaven for hypocrisy.

  Aldous Huxley

  Art, Hypocrite, Heaven

  Aldous Huxley (2000). “Complete Essays: 1926-1929”, Ivan R Dee

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• A man who should act, for one day, on the supposition that all the people about him were influenced by the religion which they professed would find himself ruined by night.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Night, Men, People

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• Politeness, n: The most acceptable hypocrisy.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Manners, Etiquette, Politeness

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.184, University of Georgia Press

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• Don't take what someone else has made sure of and pretend it's you yourself that have made sure of it till it's yours absolutely by conviction. It's stealing to take it and hypocrisy and you'll fall into a hole.

  Emily Carr

  Fall, Stealing, Conviction

  Emily Carr (2009). “Klee Wyck”, p.10, D & M Publishers

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• Hypocrisy itself does great honor, or rather justice, to religion, and tacitly acknowledges it to be an ornament to human nature. The hypocrite would not be at so much pains to put on the appearance of virtue, if he did not know it was the most proper and effectual means to gain the love and esteem of mankind.

  Joseph Addison

  Pain, Hypocrite, Mean

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steel (1858). “The Spectator”, p.304

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• Every man alone is sincere.
  At the entrance of a second person,
  hypocrisy begins.
  We parry and fend the approach
  of our fellow-man by compliments,
  by gossip, by amusements, by affairs.
  We cover up our thought from him
  under a hundred folds.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Gossip, Cover Ups

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1342, Delphi Classics

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• Woe unto thee if after all thy profession thou shouldst be found under the power of ignorance, lost in formality, drowned in earthly-mindedness, envenomed with malice, exalted in an opinion of thine own righteousness, leavened with hypocrisy and carnal ends in God's service.

  Joseph Alleine

  Ignorance, Woe Unto, Opinion

  Joseph Alleine (1824). “An Alarm to Unconverted Sinners”, p.170

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• Many among men are they who set high the show of honor, yet break justice.

  Aeschylus

  Men, Justice, Honor

  Aeschylus (1954). “Aeschylus: Oresteia; Agamemnon, The libation bearers, The Eumenides, translated and with an introd. by R. Lattimore”

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• An atheist is but a mad, ridiculous derider of piety, but a hypocrite makes a sober jest of God and religion; he finds it easier to be upon his knees than to rise to a good action.

  Alexander Pope

  Atheist, Hypocrite, Mad

  Alexander Pope, Owen Ruffhead (1807). “Poetry and letters-1807”, p.109

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• I will use whatever position I have in order to root out hypocrisy. Democrats have strong moral values. Frankly, my moral values are offended by some of the things I hear on programs like "Rush Limbaugh," and we don't have to put up with that.

  Howard Dean

  Strong, Roots, Order

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• Hypocrisy is not generally a social sin, but a virtue.

  Judith Martin

  Sin, Virtue, Social

  Judith Martin (2002). “Miss Manners' Guide to Rearing Perfect Children”, p.85, Simon and Schuster

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• People will disapprove of you if you're unhappy, or if you're happy in The Wrong Way.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  People, Unhappy, Way

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• Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is a little like expecting the bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian.

  Dennis Wholey

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

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• I try to photograph my own and society's hypocrisy.

  Martin Parr

  Trying, Photograph, My Own

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