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.
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Benjamin Franklin Quotes
Politeness, n. The most acceptable hypocrisy.
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Ambrose Bierce Quotes
He does not believe who does not live according to his belief.
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Thomas Fuller Quotes
All reformers, however strict their social conscience, live in houses just as big as they can pay for.
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Logan Pearsall Smith Quotes
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.
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Geoffrey L. Rudd Quotes
That which we call sin in others is experiment for us.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
Because hypocrisy stinks in the nostrils one is likely to rate it as a more powerful agent for destruction than it is.
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Rebecca West Quotes
As no roads are so rough as those that have just been mended, so no sinners are so intolerant as those that have just turned saints.
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Charles Caleb Colton Quotes
The essence of immorality is the tendency to make an exception of myself.
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Jane Addams Quotes
Hypocrite: the man who murdered both his parents... pleaded for mercy on the grounds that he was an orphan.
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Abraham Lincoln Quotes
Every man alone is sincere. At the entrance of a second person, hypocrisy begins. We parry and fend the approach of our fellow-man by compliments, by gossip, by amusements, by affairs. We cover up our thought from him under a hundred folds.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits.
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Mark Twain Quotes
I don't never have any trouble in regulating my own conduct, but to keep other folks' straight is what bothers me.
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Josh Billings Quotes
It is a good divine that follows his own instructions.
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William Shakespeare Quotes
The injury we do and the one we suffer are not weighed in the same scales.
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Aesop Quotes
Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
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H.G. Wells Quotes
Affectation is a greater enemy to the face than smallpox.
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English Proverb Quotes
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.
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Hannah Arendt Quotes
Whatever you condemn, you have done yourself.
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Georg Groddeck Quotes