Hypocrite Quotes - Page 3

• One who, professing virtues that he does not respect, secures the advantage of seeming to be what he despises.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Doe, Virtue, Advantage

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.94, 谷月社

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• In the name of Hypocrites, doctors have invented the most exquisite form of torture ever known to man: survival.

  Edward Everett Hale

  Time, Native American, Men

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• Man is the only animal that learns by being hypocritical. He pretends to be polite and then, eventually, he becomes polite.

  Jean Kerr

  Women, Memorable, Learning

  Jean Kerr (1973). “Finishing Touches”, p.9, Dramatists Play Service Inc

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• For neither man nor angel can discern hypocrisy, the only evil that walks invisible, except to God alone.

  John Milton

  Angel, Men, Evil

  'Paradise Lost' (1667) bk. 3, l. 682

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• Often a noble face hides filthy ways.

  Euripides

  Hypocrisy, Noble, Way

  Euripides (2013). “Euripides II: Andromache, Hecuba, The Suppliant Women, Electra”, p.215, University of Chicago Press

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• No power can be maintained when it is only represented by hypocrites.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Power

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two”, p.48, Courier Corporation

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• General good is the plea of the scoundrel, hypocite, flatterer.

  William Blake

  Scoundrels, Organized, Altruism

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• The hypocrite who always plays one and the same part ceases at last to be a hypocrite.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Play, Hypocrisy, Lasts

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two”, p.46, Courier Corporation

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• I think people are born bisexual and the make subconscious choices based on the pressures of society. I have no question in my mind about being bisexual. But I'm also a hypocrite: I would never date a girl who is bisexual, because that means they also sleep with men, and men are so dirty that I'd never sleep with a girl who had slept with a man.

  Megan Fox

  Girl, Dirty, Mean

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• Some hypocrites and seeming mortified men, that held down their heads, were like the little images that they place in the very bowing of the vaults of churches, that look as if they held up the church, but are but puppets.

  William Laud

  Men, Hypocrisy, Church

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations". Book by J.K. Hoyt & K.L. Roberts, p. 383-84, 1922.

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• The american dream wasn't meant for me, cause lady liberty's a hypocrite she lied to me, promised me freedom,education, and equality never gave me nothing but slavery but now look at how dangerous you made me callin me a mad man because im strong and bold.

  Tupac Shakur

  Dream, Strong, Men

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

  Matthew McConaughey

  Hypocrisy, Devil, Christ

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• Hypocrite reader my fellow my brother!

  Charles Baudelaire

  Brother, Book, Reading

  Charles Baudelaire, Keith Waldrop (2006). “The Flowers of Evil”, p.36, Wesleyan University Press

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• I’m an animal activist. Many people say that I’m a hypocrite, because I eat burgers and stuff like that but I won’t wear fur. But I’m not a hypocrite. I just only wear fake fur.

  Paris Hilton

  Animal, People, Fake

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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, Community

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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, People

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• Why lie? I'm not going to be a hypocrite and say the opposite of what I think, like some others do.

  Cristiano Ronaldo

  Inspirational, Soccer, Lying

  "In his own words: Ronaldo reveals all about Ferguson, his football dreams and his future". Interview with Bruno Prata, www.theguardian.com. August 6, 2008.

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• We ought to see far enough into a hypocrite to see even his sincerity.

  Thomas Fuller

  Hypocrisy, Sincerity, Enough

  "Heretics". Book by G. K. Chesterton, chapter V: "Mr. H. G. Wells and the Giants", 1905.

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• Who are the lunatics? The ones who see horror in the heart of their fellow humans and search for peace at any price? Or the ones who pretend they don't see what's going on around them? The world belongs either to lunatics or hypocrites. There are no other races on this earth. You must choose which one to belong to.

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon

  Heart, Race, World

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• If wine disappeared from human production, I believe there would be, in the health and intellect of the planet, a void, a deficiency far more terrible than all the excesses and deviations for which wine is made responsible. Is it not reasonable to suggest that people that never drink wine, whether naive or doctrinaire, are fools or hypocrites....?

  Charles Baudelaire

  Believe, Wine, People

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• Whatever you condemn, you have done yourself.

  Georg Groddeck

  Hypocrisy, Done

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• No man is a hypocrite in his pleasures.

  Samuel Johnson

  Men, Hypocrisy, Pleasure

  In James Boswell 'The Life of Samuel Johnson' (1791) vol. 4, p. 316 (June 1784).

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• He is a hypocrite who professes what he does not believe; not he who does not practice all he wishes or approves.

  William Hazlitt

  Believe, Practice, Hypocrisy

  William Hazlitt (1904). “The Collected Works of William Hazlitt: Fugitive writings”

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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, Mirrors, Numbers

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• Hypocrite: The man who murdered his parents, and then pleaded for mercy on the grounds that he was an orphan.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Death, Men, Hypocrisy

  Martin D. Tullai, Abraham Lincoln (1998). “Speaking of Abraham Lincoln”

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