Quotes on hypocrisy
The world is full of fools and faint hearts; and yet everyone has courage enough to bear the misfortunes, and wisdom enough to manage the affairs, of his neighbor.
Franklin, Benjamin
He does not believe who does not live according to his belief.
Fuller, Thomas
In the last analysis we must be judged by what we do and not by what we believe. We are as we behave, with a very small margin of credit for our unmanifested vision of how we might behave if we could take the trouble.
Rudd, Geoffrey L.
The essence of immorality is the tendency to make an exception of myself.
Addams, Jane
Hypocrite: the man who murdered both his parents... pleaded for mercy on the grounds that he was an orphan.
Lincoln, Abraham
Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits.
Twain, Mark
I don't never have any trouble in regulating my own conduct, but to keep other folks' straight is what bothers me.
Billings, Josh
It is a good divine that follows his own instructions.
Shakespeare, William
The injury we do and the one we suffer are not weighed in the same scales.
Aesop
Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
Wells, H.G.
Affectation is a greater enemy to the face than smallpox.
Proverb, English
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 except this one. Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really rotten to the core.
Arendt, Hannah
Whatever you condemn, you have done yourself.
Groddeck, Georg