Hypocrisy Sayings & Quotes
These hypocrisy sayings, quotes and quotations are from our famous and inspiring Just-Quotes collection.Every man alone is sincere. At the entrance of a second person, hypocrisy begins. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Umbrellas, like faces, acquire a certain sympathy with the individual who carries them. May it not be said of the bearers of these inappropriate umbrellas, that they go about the streets 'with a lie in their right hand?' Except in a very few cases of hypocrisy joined to a powerful intellect, men, not by nature, umbrellarians, have tried again and again to become so by art, and yet have failed, have expended their patrimony in the purchase of umbrella after umbrella, and yet have systematically lost them, and have finally, with contrite spirits and shrunken purses, given up their vain struggle, and relied on theft and borrowing for the remainder of their lives. - Robert Louis Stevenson
Hypocrisy in anything whatever may deceive the cleverest and most penetrating man, but the least wide-awake of children recognizes it, and is revolted by it, however ingeniously it may be disguised. - Leo Tolstoy
Oh, for a forty-parson power to chant Thy praise, Hypocrisy! Oh, for a hymn Loud as the virtues thou dost loudly vaunt, Not practise! - Lord Byron
Courage and modesty are the most unequivocal of virtues, for they are of a kind that hypocrisy cannot imitate; they too have this quality in common, that they are expressed by the same colour. - Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Politeness: The most acceptable hypocrisy. [The Devil's Dictionary] - Ambrose Bierce
Posterity will do justice to that unprincipled maniac Gladstone, extraordinary mixture of envy, vindictiveness, hypocrisy and superstition; and with one commanding characteristic, whether Prime Minister or Leader of the Opposition, whether preaching, praying, speechifying or scribbling, never a gentleman. - Benjamin Disraeli
When we abolish the slavery of half of humanity, together with the whole system of hypocrisy it implies, then the 'division' of humanity will reveal its genuine significance and the human couple will find its true form. - Simone De Beauvoir
Manners are the hypocrisy of a nation. - Honore De Balzac
There is a certain satisfaction in coming down to the lowest ground of politics, for we get rid of can't and hypocrisy. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
At the entrance of a second person, hypocrisy begins. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Never to talk about yourself is a refined form of hypocrisy. - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
Where there is no religion, hypocrisy becomes good taste. - George Bernard Shaw
Our laws make law impossible; our liberties destroy all freedom; our property is organized robbery; our morality an impudent hypocrisy; our wisdom is administered by inexperienced or mal-experienced dupes; our power wielded by cowards and weaklings; and our honour false in all its points. I am an enemy of the existing order for good reasons. - George Bernard Shaw