Hypocrisy Quotes

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  No man for any considerable period can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Depression, Being Yourself, Men

  1850 The Scarlet Letter, ch.20.

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• Hypocrisy is the audacity to preach integrity from a den of corruption.

  Wes Fesler

  Integrity, Audacity, Corruption

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• The true hypocrite is the one who ceases to perceive his deception, the one who lies with sincerity.

  Andre Gide

  Truth, Lying, Hypocrite

  Andre Gide (2012). “The Counterfeiters: A Novel”, p.427, Vintage

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• The only thing worse than a liar is a liar that's also a hypocrite!

  Tennessee Williams

  Liars, Lying, Hypocrite

  Tennessee Williams, John Patrick Shanley (2010). “The Rose Tattoo”, p.118, New Directions Publishing

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• The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be.

  Socrates

  Life, Wisdom, Being Yourself

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• People are very inclined to set moral standards for others.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  People, Moral, Standards

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• A hypocrite is the kind of politician who would cut down a redwood tree, then mount the stump and make a speech for conservation.

  Adlai E. Stevenson

  Fake People, Hypocrite, Cutting

  "Mark Souder: The Hypocrisy of the Hypocrite" by Diana Butler Bass, www.beliefnet.com. May 18, 2010.

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• Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

  "The Artist's Way at Work: Riding the Dragon". Book by Mark A. Bryan with Julia Cameron and Catherine A. Allen, p. 160, 1999.

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• When a man has so far corrupted and prostituted the chastity of his mind, as to [profess] things he does not believe, he has prepared himself for the commission of every other crime.

  Thomas Paine

  Honesty, Integrity, Believe

  Thomas Paine (1861). “The Age of Reason, etc”, p.1

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• There are three things in the world that deserve no mercy, hypocrisy, fraud, and tyranny.

  Frederick William Robertson

  Three, World, Mercy

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  The essence of immorality is the tendency to make an exception of myself.

  Jane Addams

  Honesty, Integrity, Character

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• God has given you one face, and you make yourself another.

  William Shakespeare

  God, Fake People, Being Yourself

  William Shakespeare, Nick De Somogyi (2001). “Hamlet: The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke : the First Folio of 1623 and a Parallel Modern Edition”, p.106, Nick Hern Books

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• The only vice that cannot be forgiven is hypocrisy. The repentance of a hypocrite is itself hypocrisy.

  William Hazlitt

  Forgiveness, Hypocrite, Vices

  William Hazlitt (1837). “Characteristics: in the manner of Rochefoucault's Maxims [by W. Hazlitt].”, p.94

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• Corruption and hypocrisy ought not to be inevitable products of democracy, as they undoubtedly are today.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Hypocrite, Democracy, Today

  Mahatma Gandhi (1974). “Collected Works”

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• Clean your finger before you point at my spots.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Wise, Wisdom, Hypocrite

  Benjamin Franklin (2013). “The Art of Virtue: Ben Franklin's Formula for Successful Living”, p.46, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• How clever you are, my dear! You never mean a single word you say.

  Oscar Wilde

  Clever, Mean, Words You Say

  "The Best of Oscar Wilde: Selected Plays and Writings".

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• If Satan ever laughs, it must be at hypocrites; they are the greatest dupes he has.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Hypocrite, Laughing, Dupes

  Charles Caleb COLTON (1849). “L.P.”, p.221

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• Live truth instead of professing it.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Truth, Character, Hypocrite

  Harry Persons Taber, Elbert Hubbard (1908). “The Philistine: A Periodical of Protest”

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• Whatever you condemn, you have done yourself.

  Georg Groddeck

  Hypocrite, Done

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• There are moments when one has to choose between living one's own life, fully, entirely, completely-or dragging out some false, shallow, degrading existence that the world in its hypocrisy demands.

  Oscar Wilde

  World, Demand, Existentialism

  Oscar Wilde (2000). “The Plays of Oscar Wilde”, p.187, Wordsworth Editions

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• Hypocrite: The man who murdered his parents, and then pleaded for mercy on the grounds that he was an orphan.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Death, Hypocrite, Men

  Martin D. Tullai, Abraham Lincoln (1998). “Speaking of Abraham Lincoln”

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• It is always easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them.

  Alfred Adler

  Inspirational, Wisdom, Courage

  In Phyllis Bottome Alfred Adler (1939) p. 76

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• It is easier to pretend to be what you are not than to hide what you really are; but he that can accomplish both has little to learn in hypocrisy.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Littles, Easier, Accomplish

  Charles Caleb Colton (1823). “Remarks on the Talents of Lord Byron and the Tendencies of Don Juan”, p.150

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• A Conservative Government is an organized hypocrisy.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Government, Political, Politics

  'Hansard' 17 March 1845, col. 1028. Bagehot, quoting Disraeli in 'The English Constitution' (1867) 'The House of Lords', elaborated on the theme with the words 'so much did the ideas of its "head" differ from the sensations of its "tail".'

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• Only the hypocrite is really rotten to the core.

  Hannah Arendt

  Hypocrite, Rotten, Radical

  'On Revolution' (1963) ch. 2

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