Hypocrit Quotes

• 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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• If we divine a discrepancy between a man's words and his character, the whole impression of him becomes broken and painful; he revolts the imagination by his lack of unity, and even the good in him is hardly accepted.

  Charles Horton Cooley

  Pain, Character, Hypocrite

  Charles Horton Cooley (1992). “Human Nature and the Social Order”, p.350, Transaction Publishers

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• The true hypocrite is the one who ceases to perceive his deception, the one who lies with sincerity.

  Andre Gide

  Truth, Lying, Hypocrite

  Andre Gide (2012). “The Counterfeiters: A Novel”, p.427, Vintage

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• The only thing worse than a liar is a liar that's also a hypocrite!

  Tennessee Williams

  Liars, Lying, Hypocrite

  Tennessee Williams, John Patrick Shanley (2010). “The Rose Tattoo”, p.118, New Directions Publishing

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• A hypocrite despises those whom he deceives, but has no respect for himself. He would make a dupe of himself too, if he could.

  William Hazlitt

  Respect, Hypocrite, Hype

  William Hazlitt (1837). “Characteristics: in the manner of Rochefoucault's Maxims [by W. Hazlitt].”, p.142

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• A hypocrite is the kind of politician who would cut down a redwood tree, then mount the stump and make a speech for conservation.

  Adlai E. Stevenson

  Fake People, Hypocrite, Cutting

  "Mark Souder: The Hypocrisy of the Hypocrite" by Diana Butler Bass, www.beliefnet.com. May 18, 2010.

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• Corruption and hypocrisy ought not to be inevitable products of democracy, as they undoubtedly are today.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Hypocrite, Hypocrisy, Democracy

  Mahatma Gandhi (1974). “Collected Works”

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• We are all hypocrites. We cannot see ourselves or judge ourselves the way we see and judge others.

  Jose Emilio Pacheco

  Hypocrite, Judging, Way

  Jose Emilio Pacheco (1987). “Battles in the Desert & Other Stories”, p.86, New Directions Publishing

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• Hypocrites do the devil's drudgery in Christ's livery.

  Matthew McConaughey

  Hypocrite, Hypocrisy, Devil

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• If Satan ever laughs, it must be at hypocrites; they are the greatest dupes he has.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Hypocrite, Laughing, Hypocrisy

  Charles Caleb COLTON (1849). “L.P.”, p.221

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• I don't want people to think I'm a hypocrite.

  GG Allin

  Hypocrite, Thinking, People

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• I was not a hypocrite, with one real face and several false ones. I had several faces because I was young and didn't know who I was or wanted to be.

  Milan Kundera

  Real, Hypocrite, Faces

  Milan Kundera (1983). “The Joke”, Viking Press

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• Few love to hear the sins they love to act.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Hypocrite, Hypocrisy

  'Pericles, Prince Of Tyre' (1606-8) act 1, sc. 1, l. 92

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• The Christian community latched onto a lot of my music, because there were a lot of things about my struggle they related to. But I didn't really want to come out and be identified as a Christian, because I didn't want to be a hypocrite, because my life wasn't right.

  Scott Stapp

  Christian, Struggle, Hypocrite

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• I would be a huge hypocrite if I didn't tell you that at one time in my life I thought the way that you made music was you got on a major label and you got famous.

  Neko Case

  Hypocrite, Would Be, Labels

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• The world is full of fools and faint hearts; and yet everyone has courage enough to bear the misfortunes, and wisdom enough to manage the affairs, of his neighbor.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Wisdom, Hypocrite, Heart

  Benjamin Franklin (2007). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.82, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• Those whose conduct gives room for talk are always the first to attack their neighbors.

  Moliere

  Hypocrite, Giving, Hypocrisy

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• How inexpressible is the meanness of being a hypocrite! how horrible is it to be a mischievous and malignant hypocrite.

  Voltaire

  Hypocrite, Hell, Horrible

  Voltaire (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of Voltaire (Illustrated)”, p.4227, Delphi Classics

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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, Hypocrisy, House

  'Afterthoughts' (1931) 'Other People'

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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, Hypocrisy

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

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• Hypocrites in the Church? Yes, and in the lodge and at the home. Don't hunt through the Church for a hypocrite. Go home and look in the mirror. Hypocrites? Yes. See that you make the number one less.

  Billy Sunday

  Home, Hypocrite, Mirrors

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• God has given you one face, and you make yourself another.

  William Shakespeare

  God, Fake People, Being Yourself

  William Shakespeare, Nick De Somogyi (2001). “Hamlet: The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke : the First Folio of 1623 and a Parallel Modern Edition”, p.106, Nick Hern Books

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• It is always easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them.

  Alfred Adler

  Inspirational, Wisdom, Courage

  In Phyllis Bottome Alfred Adler (1939) p. 76

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• I would be a liar, a hypocrite, or a fool - and I'm not any of those - to say that I don't write for the reader. I do. But for the reader who hears, who really will work at it, going behind what I seem to say. So I write for myself and that reader who will pay the dues.

  Maya Angelou

  Liars, Hypocrite, Writing

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• The difference between a saint and a hypocrite is that one lies for his religion, the other by it.

  Minna Antrim

  Women, Lying, Hypocrite

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