Hypocrisy Quotes

It is not uncommon to charge the difference between promise and performance, between profession and reality, upon deep design and studied deceit: but the truth is, that there is very little hypocrisy in the world; we do not so often endeavour or wish to impose on others as on ourselves; we resolve to do right, […]

Clean your finger before you point at my spots.

Discretion is the polite word for hypocrisy.

Hypocrisy: prejudice with a halo.

Christian. n. One who follows the teachings of Christ insofar as they are not inconsistent with a life of sin.

When a man says he approves of something in principle, it means he hasn’t the slightest intention of carrying it out in practice.

The wolf was sick, he vowed a monk to be – But when he got well, a wolf once more was he.

Don’t stay away from church because there are so many hypocrites. There’s always room for one more.

In fact, of course, hypocrisy boomed under the Bolsheviks, like hyper inflation. I do not intend it as a witticsm when I say that hypocrisy became the life and soul of the party – indeed this understates the case. Hypocrisy didn’t know what had hit it in October 1917. Until then, hypocrisy had had its […]

As witnesses not of our intentions but of our conduct, we can be true or false, and the hypocrite’s crime is that he bears false witness against himself. What makes it so plausible to assume that hypocrisy is the vice of vices is that integrity can indeed exist under the cover of all other vices […]