Hypocrite Quotes - Page 15

• Tis a barbarous temper, and a sign of a very ill nature, to take delight in shocking any one: and, on the contrary, it is the mark of an amiable and a beneficent temper, to say all the kind things one can, without flattery or playing the hypocrite,--and what never fails of procuring the love and esteem of every one; which, next to doing good to a deserving object who wants it, is one of the greatest pleasures of this life.

  Samuel Richardson

  Want, Next, Delight

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• Had he been willing to live a hypocrite, he would have been respectable, he at least could have died surrounded by other hypocrites, and at his death there would have been an imposing funeral, with miles of carriages, filled with hypocrites, and above his hypocritical dust there would have been a hypocritical monument covered with lies.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Lying, Dust, Funeral

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.806, Library of Alexandria

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• If I am right, then (religious fundamentalists) will not go to Heaven, because there is no Heaven. If they are right, then they will not go to Heaven, because they are hypocrites.

  Isaac Asimov

  Religious, Heaven, Fundamentalist

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• Intellectual freedom is essential -- freedom to obtain and distribute information, freedom for open-minded and unfearing debate and freedom from pressure by officialdom and prejudices. Such freedom of thought is the only guarantee against an infection of people by mass myths, which, in the hands of treacherous hypocrites and demagogues, can be transformed into bloody dictatorship.

  Andrei Sakharov

  Freedom, Hands, People

  Andrei D. Sakharov (1968). “Progress, coexistence, and intellectual freedom”

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• The brain may take advice, but not the heart, and love having no geography, knows no boundaries: weight and sink it deep, no matter, it will rise and find the surface: and why not? Any love is natural and beautiful that lies within a person's nature; only hypocrites would hold a man responsible for what he loves, emotional illiterates and those of righteous envy, who, in their agitated concern, mistake so frequently the arrow pointing to heaven for the one that leads to hell.

  Truman Capote

  Love, Beautiful, Dream

  Truman Capote (2007). “Other Voices, Other Rooms”, p.124, Vintage

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• We are all hypocrites in transition. I am not who I want to be, but I am on the journey there, and thankfully I am not whom I used to be.

  Erwin McManus

  Journey, Transition, Want

  Erwin Raphael McManus (2008). “Soul Cravings: An Exploration of the Human Spirit”, p.77, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Do not say, 'It is morning,' and dismiss it with a name of yesterday. See it for the first time as a newborn child that has no name.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Good Morning, Children, Good Day

  Rabindranath Tagore, Mohit Kumar Ray (2007). “Poems”, p.423, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

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• Islam will be destroyed by the mistakes of scholars, the arguments of the hypocrites who misinterpret the Qur’an to support their views and misleading rulers.

  Umar

  Mistake, Views, Support

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• It’s amazing how much panic one honest man can spread among a multitude of hypocrites.

  Thomas Sowell

  Men, Panic, Honest

  Thomas Sowell (1993). “Is Reality Optional?: And Other Essays”, Hoover Inst Press

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• An honest politician is either a hypocrite - or he is doomed.

  Taylor Caldwell

  Honest, Politician, Doomed

  Taylor Caldwell (2016). “Captains and the Kings: A Novel”, p.355, Open Road Media

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• In any nation, the hypocrites do not become apparent except during times of fitnah (severe tests and hardships).

  Yasmin Mogahed

  Fake People, Islamic, Adversity

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• Scratch an altruist and watch a hypocrite bleed.

  Michael Ghiselin

  Watches, Scratches, Opportunism

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• Those who say they dislike dogma, or 'certainty', tend to be liars, hypocrites, or simply wrong. What they really dislike is the dogma of those they disagree with. A society that was certain, certain beyond all certainty, that putting its citizens in death camps was wrong, would never put people in death camps. Such things are only possible when you're open to new ideas.

  Jonah Goldberg

  Liars, Knowledge, Ideas

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• Pay attention to minute particulars. Take care of the little ones. Generalization and abstraction are the plea of the hypocrite, scoundrel, and knave.

  William Blake

  Hypocrisy, Attention, Care

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• Such an act
  That blurs the grace and blush of modesty;
  Calls virtue hypocrite; takes off the rose
  From the fair forehead of an innocent love,
  And sets a blister there; makes marriage vows
  As false as dicers' oaths.

  William Shakespeare

  Rose, Grace, Modesty

  William Shakespeare (2016). “Hamlet: Revised Edition”, p.368, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• For the decisions of our will are often so directly opposed to the decisions of our emotions, that, if we are in the habit of considering our emotions as the test, we shall be very apt to feel like hypocrites in declaring those things to be real which our will alone has decided.

  Hannah Whitall Smith

  Real, Decision, Tests

  Hannah Whitall Smith (2009). “The Christian's Secret of a Happy Life”, p.89, Moody Publishers

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• They are the only honest hypocrites, their life is a voluntary dream, a studied madness.

  William Hazlitt

  Dream, Acting, Actors

  William Hazlitt (1871). “The Round Table. A collection of Essays ... By W. H. and Leigh Hunt”, p.218

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• You may readily judge whether you are a child of God or a hypocrite by seeing in what direction your soul turns in seasons of severe trial. The hypocrite flies to the world and finds a sort of comfort there. But the child of God runs to his Father and expects consolation only from the Lord's hand.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Running, Children, Father

  Spurgeon, Charles H. “The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 59: Sermons 3335-3386”, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

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• Love is rarely a hypocrite; but hate--how detect and how guard against it! It lurks where you least expect it; it is created by causes that you can the least foresee; and civilization multiplies its varieties, whilst it favors its disguise.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Hate, Love Is, Civilization

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• The U.S. government officials lie when they talk about human rights. They're a bunch of hypocrites and liars.
  You can't take it seriously.

  Eqbal Ahmad

  Lying, Liars, Rights

  Eqbal Ahmad, David Barsamian (2000). “Eqbal Ahmad, Confronting Empire: Interviews with David Barsamian”, p.51, South End Press

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• As you know, the Inquisition is an admirable and wholly Christian invention to make the pope and the monks more powerful and turn a whole kingdom into hypocrites.

  Voltaire

  Christian, Powerful, Atheism

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• When I'm singing a song on stage, I hate hypocrites. If you don't put yourself in that lyric and emote and be what that lyric says that you are, then you're just going through the motions and you're being hypocritical. I just take that same approach with acting. I just take the dialogue and I emote it and become that. I use the same technic.

  Trace Adkins

  Song, Hate, Singing

  Source: collider.com

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• No hint of genuine charity ameliorates our vision of society, once sentimentalism has been laid side. What passes for cooperation turns out to be a mixture of opportunism and exploitation. Scratch an altruist and watch a hypocrite bleed.

  Michael Ghiselin

  Vision, Watches, Scratches

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• Yes, I am a terrorist and I am proud of it. And I support terrorism so long as it was against the United States Government and against Israel, because you are more than terrorists; you are the one who invented terrorism and using it every day. You are butchers, liars and hypocrites.

  Ramzi Yousef

  Liars, Government, Israel

  "Excerpts From Statements in Court". www.nytimes.com. January 9, 1998.

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