Top Hypocrisy Quotes

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

The American people are fed up...with political posturing.' True, but also an example of political posturing.

Hypocrisy Definition

(n.) The act or practice of a hypocrite; a feigning to be what one is not, or to feel what one does not feel; a dissimulation, or a concealment of one's real character, disposition, or motives; especially, the assuming of false appearance of virtue or religion; a simulation of goodness.

I become quite melancholy and deeply grieved to see men behave to each other as they do. Everywhere I find nothing but base flattery, injustice , self-interest, deceit and roguery. I cannot bear it an...

When the hypocrisy of life appears we often fail to recognise it or the question it raises

Expectations are nothing more than the rules we set, in order to maintain our ego and self esteem. What we seek from others is often that fulfillment of what we believe we require for happiness. Howev...

I'm annoyed by those who love mankind but are discourteous to people.

If woman had no existence save in the fiction written by men, one would imagine her a person of the utmost importance (...); as great as a man, some think even greater. But this is woman in fiction. I...

The pride of man hopes but to blame God for the evils of the world, and to praise himself for the good.

Two things don't need to be "equally bad" to point out that they're both bad.

To that point, he had always found the vicomtesse overflowing with friendly politeness, that sweet-flowing grace conferred by an aristocratic education, and which is never truly there unless it comes,...

Be not intimidated...nor suffer yourselves to be wheedled out of your liberties by any pretense of politeness, delicacy, or decency. These, as they are often used, are but three different names for hy...

To forgive, you must love the world and everything in it. Anything less is hypocrisy.

The Chinese food arrives. Delicious saliva fills his mouth. He really hasn't had any since Texas. He loves this food that contains no disgusting proofs of slain animals, a bloody slab of cow haunch, a...

Even the respectable have a small anarchist hidden on the inside.

He had the arrogance of the believer, but none of the humility of the deeply religious.

I don't understand why people care so much about showing that they are good; because I am rather comfortable with having badness, quite okay with being inexplicable. They tire themselves so. The light...

She had an evil face, smoothed by hypocrisy; but her manners were excellent.

Many common lies and hypocrisies are like that, just out of the harmony of the moment.

There is nothing worse then being surrounded by a bunch of people telling you to do what is right, when they can't define that definition, without a lot of hatred and judgment behind it.

For the powerful, crimes are those that others commit.