Hypocrisy Quotes
It is easy for men to talk one thing and think another.
- Publilius Syrus
Affectation is a greater enemy to the face than smallpox.
- English Proverb
The essence of immorality is the tendency to make an exception of myself.
- Jane Addams
Go put your creed into your deed.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Saint abroad, and a devil at home.
- John Bunyan
We are not hypocrites in our sleep.
- William Hazlitt
Live truth instead of professing it.
- Elbert Hubbard
Forbear to judge, for we are sinners all.
- William Shakespeare
Hypocrite reader – my fellow – my brother!
- St Jerome
They are not all saints who use holy water.
- English Proverb
Politeness, n. The most acceptable hypocrisy.
- Ambrose Bierce
Hypocrisy is an homage that vice renders to virtue.
- François Rochefoucauld
Your religion is what you do when the sermon is over.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Tis curious that we only believe as deeply as we live.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
God has given you one face, and you make yourself another.
- William Shakespeare
History is the chronicle of divorces between creed and deed.
- Louis Fischer
O, what may man within him hide, Though angel on the outward side!
- William Shakespeare
It is easier to fight for one’s principles than to live up to them.
- Alfred Adler
How seldom we weigh our neighbors in the same balance as ourselves.
- Thomas Kempis
Loud indignation against vice often stands for virtue in the eyes of bigots.
- J. Petit
The injury we do and the one we suffer are not weighed in the same scales.
- Aesop
Be hypocritical, be cautious, be Not what you seem but always what you see.
- Lord Byron
All reformers, however strict their social conscience, live in houses just as big as they can pay for.
- Logan Pearsall Smith
And the veil Spun from the cobweb fashion of the times, TO hid the feeling heart?
- Mark Akenside
One should examine oneself for a very long time before thinking of condemning others.
- Moliere
A man generally has two reasons for doing a thing. One that sounds good, and a real one.
- J. Pierpoint Morgan
Those whose conduct gives room for talk are always the first to attack their neighbors.
- Jean Baptiste Molière
Most everyone seems willing to be a fool himself, but he can’t bear to have anyone else one.
- Josh Billings
And prate and preach about what others prove, As if the world and they were hand and glove.
- William Cowper
Away, and mock the time with fairest show; False face must hide what the false heart doth khow.
- William Shakespeare
When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty.
- George Bernard Shaw
Thus ’tis with all; their chief and constant care Is to seem everything but what they are.
- Oliver Goldsmith
The true hypocrite is the one who ceases to perceive his deception, the one who lies with sincerity.
- André Gide
We are irritated by rascals, intolerant of fools, and prepared to love the rest. But where are they?
- Mignon McLaughlin
Hypocrite: the man who murdered both his parents… pleaded for mercy on the grounds that he was an orphan.
- Abraham Lincoln
Throughout our lives, we see in the mirror the same innocent trusting face we have seen there since childhood.
- Mignon McLaughlin
How many observe Christ’s birthday! How few his precepts! O! ’tis easier to keep holidays than commandments.
- Benjamin Franklin
A great deal of what passes for current Christianity consists in denouncing other people’s vices and faults.
- Henry H. Williams
A hypocrite is in himself both the archer and the mark, in all actions shooting at his own praise or profit.
- Dr. Thomas Fuller
I don’t never have any trouble in regulating my own conduct, but to keep other folks’ straight is what bothers me.
- Josh Billings


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