Hypocrisy Quotes

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

  Wes Fesler

  Integrity, Audacity, Corruption

  41 Copy quote
• 

  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.

  128 Copy quote

  Show source

• A good example brings about so much good, but hypocrisy brings about so much evil.

  Pope Francis

  Evil, Example, Good Examples

  4 Copy quote

• 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

  75 Copy quote

  Show source

• I am learning that the best cure for hypocrisy is community. Hypocrisy is not so much the result of not living what I preach but much more of not confessing my inability to fully live up to my own words.

  Henri Nouwen

  Community, Inability, Results

  8 Copy quote

• 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

  91 Copy quote

  Show source

• And when I speak, I don't speak as a Democrat or a Republican, nor an American. I speak as a victim of America's so-called democracy. You and I have never seen democracy - all we've seen is hypocrisy. When we open our eyes today and look around America, we see America not through the eyes of someone who has enjoyed the fruits of Americanism. We see America through the eyes of someone who has been the victim of Americanism. We don't see any American dream. We've experienced only the American nightmare.

  Malcolm X

  Dream, Eye, America

  "Malcolm X: 'It'll be the ballot or the bullet', stump speech". Malcolm X's speech in Detroit, Michigan, USA, speakola.com. April 12, 1964.

  15 Copy quote

  Show source

• Be as you wish to seem.

  Socrates

  Inspirational, Integrity, Personality

  93 Copy quote

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

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  People, Moral, Standards

  20 Copy quote

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

  Socrates

  Life, Wisdom, Being Yourself

  94 Copy quote

• 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.

  40 Copy quote

  Show source

• It has been the political career of this man to begin with hypocrisy, proceed with arrogance, and finish with contempt

  Thomas Paine

  Men, Careers, Political

  Thomas Paine (1819). “The Political and Miscellaneous Works of Thomas Paine ...”

  15 Copy quote

  Show source

• Never underestimate the hypocrisy of politicians.

  James Herbert

  Underestimate, Politician, Never Underestimate

  5 Copy quote

• Hypocrisy: prejudice with a halo.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Hypocrite, Halos, Prejudice

  12 Copy quote

• 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”

  23 Copy quote

  Show source

• O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!

  William Shakespeare

  Angel, Men, May

  William Shakespeare, Isaac Reed, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens (1813). “The plays of William Shakespeare: in twenty-one volumes, with the corrections and illustrations of various commentators, to which are added notes”, p.334

  12 Copy quote

  Show source

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

  Frederick William Robertson

  Three, World, Mercy

  63 Copy quote

• Hypocrisy is the outward acknowledgment of inward shame.

  Norm MacDonald

  Inward, Shame, Acknowledgment

  17 Copy quote

• 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.

  544 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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

  112 Copy quote

  Show source

• To be nobody-but-yourself - in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else - means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.

  e. e. cummings

  Inspirational, Motivational, Graduation

  "A Miscellany (A Poet's Advice to Students)". Book by E. E. Cummings edited by George James Firmage, 1958.

  153 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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

  22 Copy quote

  Show source

• This world is so full of hypocrisy, the only way you can be honest is to be a hermit.

  Pete Seeger

  World, Way, Honest

  Source: peoplesworld.org

  35 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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.

  31 Copy quote

  Show source

• It is easy for men to talk one thing and think another.

  Publilius Syrus

  Men, Thinking, Easy

  9 Copy quote