Hypocrite Quotes - Page 11

• For me, the key is I always have to be the same person.If someone was to hear me say something on Fox and hear me say something different on NPR, they would say, 'The guy is a hypocrite.'

  Juan Williams

  Keys, Npr, Guy

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• All of us are experts at practicing virtue at a distance.

  Theodore Hesburgh

  Distance, Hypocrisy, Experts

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• When we have a Deputy Prime Minister who tells people not to drive cars but has two Jags himself, and where the Minister who tells people not to have two homes turns out to have nine himself - no wonder the public believe politicians are hypocrites.

  William Hague

  Believe, Home, Two

  "Hague's 'foreign land' speech". William Hague's speech to the Spring forum in Harrogate, www.theguardian.com. March 4, 2001.

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• If I were asked to name the chief benefit of the house, I should say: the house shelters day-dreaming, the house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace.

  Gaston Bachelard

  Dream, Peace, Home

  "The Poetics of Space". Book by Gaston Bachelard, 1964.

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• Experience is what you have after you've forgotten her name.

  Milton Berle

  Funny, Witty, Humorous

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• 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.

  Conrad Black

  Government, People, Income

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• My father used to sing to me in my mother's womb. I think I can name about any tune in two beats.

  Yancy Butler

  Mother, Father, Thinking

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• I wanted to know the name of every stone and flower and insect and bird and beast. I wanted to know where it got its color, where it got its life - but there was no one to tell me.

  George Washington Carver

  Life, Flower, Color

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• There are two sorts of hypocrites: ones that are deceived with their outward morality and external religion; and the others are those that are deceived with false discoveries and elevation; which often cry down works, and men's own righteousness, and tlak much of free grace, but at the same time make a righteousness of their discoveries and of their humiliation, and exalt themselves to heaven with them.

  Jonathan Edwards

  Men, Discovery, Two

  Jonathan Edwards (1844). “The Works of President Edwards in Four Volumes: A Reprint of the Worcester Edition, with Valuable Additions and a Copious General Index”, p.52

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• Jim Bakker spells his name with two k's because three would be too obvious.

  Bill Maher

  Names, Two, Gambling

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• In our ecclesiastical region there are priests who don't baptize the children of single mothers because they weren't conceived in the sanctity of marriage. These are today's hypocrites. Those who clericalize the church. Those who separate the people of God from salvation.

  Pope Francis

  Mother, Children, People

  "Pope Francis known for simplicity, humility". Associated Press Interview, www.cbc.ca. March 13, 2013.

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• Show me a cultural relativist at 30,000 feet and I'll show you a hypocrite ... If you are flying to an international congress of anthropologists or literary critics, the reason you will probably get there - the reason you don't plummet into a ploughed field - is that a lot of Western scientifically trained engineers have got their sum right.

  Richard Dawkins

  Feet, Flying, Fields

  Richard Dawkins (2004). “A Devil's Chaplain”, p.15, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• There is no principle worth the name if it is not wholly good.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Truth, Names, Humanity

  Mahatma Gandhi, Dennis Dalton (1996). “Gandhi: Selected Political Writings”, p.43, Hackett Publishing

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• The doctor's name was Sylvia. I told her she'd have a problem with me because Sylvia was my mother's name.

  Paul Lynde

  Mother, Doctors, Names

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• It was the kind of talk that made me want to break off a limb and take to whacking her and that bunch of hypocrites across the back of the head.

  Joe R. Lansdale

  Break Off, Want, Kind

  Joe R. Lansdale (2012). “Edge of Dark Water”, p.81, Hachette UK

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• A man is a hypocrite only when he affects to take a delight in what he does not feel, not because he takes a perverse delight in opposite things.

  William Hazlitt

  Men, Opposites, Doe

  William Hazlitt (1871). “The Round Table. A collection of Essays ... By W. H. and Leigh Hunt”, p.500

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• Children are contemptuous, haughty, irritable, envious, sneaky, selfish, lazy, flighty, timid, liars and hypocrites, quick to laugh and cry, extreme in expressing joy and sorrow, especially about trifles, they'll do anything to avoid pain but they enjoy inflicting it: little men already.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Pain, Children, Liars

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• And what sort of lives do these people, who pose as being moral, lead themselves? My dear fellow, you forget that we are in the native land of the hypocrite.

  Oscar Wilde

  Land, People, Moral

  Oscar Wilde (2015). “The Picture of Dorian Gray (Diversion Classics)”, p.165, Diversion Books

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• I would just as soon listen to a gangster lecture on honesty as watch Hollywood portray the Bible.

  Vance Havner

  Honesty, Hollywood, Watches

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• Those old hypocrites. They talk about killing witches but the Good Book’s full of magic. Turning the Nile to blood and parting the Red Sea. What’s that if it’s not good old-fashioned magic? Want a little water into wine? No trouble! How about raising the dead man Lazarus? Just say the word!

  Clive Barker

  Book, Wine, Men

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• We have the capacity to make sure that every mother has pre-natal care. Yet, we don't do it. What is it about America? It says we don't value children and families. We are hypocrites.

  Marian Wright Edelman

  Mother, Children, America

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• It's obsequious little nicety-nice girls like me who allow assholes to run the world: Miss Harlot O'Harlots, billionaire phony tree huggers, hypocrite drug-snorting, weed-puffing peace activists who fund the mass-murdering drug cartels and perpetuate crushing poverty in dirt-poor banana republics. It's my petty fear of personal rejection that allows so many true evils to exist. My cowardice enables atrocities.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Crush, Girl, Running

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• Better to stay alive," I said. "At least while there's a chance to get free." I thought of the sleeping pills in my bag and wondered just how great a hypocrite I was. It was so easy to advise other people to live with their pain.

  Octavia Butler

  Pain, Sleep, People

  Octavia E. Butler (2014). “Kindred”, p.165, Hachette UK

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

  GG Allin

  Thinking, People, Want

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• The people who whine about Fox News are hypocrites - they say they're totally tolerant, but when they run into someone who doesn't share their assumptions, they say, 'Fox News is evil, and it must be stopped.

  Greg Gutfeld

  Running, People, Evil

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