Hypocrite Quotes - Page 14

• A man who shows no defect is a fool or a hypocrite, whom we should mistrust. There are defects so bound to fine qualities that they announce them,--defects which it is well not to correct.

  Joseph Joubert

  Character, Men, Quality

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• In theory I am an agnostic, but pending the appearance of rational evidence I must be classed, practically and provisionally, as an atheist. The chance's of theism's truth being to my mind so microscopically small, I would be a pedant and a hypocrite to call myself anything else.

  H. P. Lovecraft

  Atheist, Mind, Would Be

  H. P. Lovecraft (1999). “The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories”, p.11, Penguin

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• I've retroactively made all that wasted time rotting my brain into research. It makes me a hypocrite when I try to tell my own daughter, "I don't know, I think we've played a little too much Mario."

  Ernest Cline

  Daughter, Thinking, Brain

  "Author Ernie Cline Was Told Video Games Would Rot His Brain, But Who Holds the High Score Now?". Interview with Michael Mechanic, www.motherjones.com. July 10, 2015.

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• Everybody is a hypocrite. You can't live on this planet without being a hypocrite.

  Paul Watson

  Planets, Being A Hypocrite

  "‘Whale Wars’ Star Paul Watson Discusses Sea Shepherd, Libya, And Bluefin Tuna" by Joanna Zelman, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 3, 2011.

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• We're all slight hypocrites who fall short of our ideals.

  Gillian Jacobs

  Fall, Ideals

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• Daughter of Time, the hypocrite Days,
  Muffled and dumb like barefoot dervishes,
  And marching single in an endless file,
  Bring diadems and fagots in their hands;
  To each they offer gifts after his will,
  Bread, kingdom, stars, and sky that holds them all;
  I, in my pleached garden watched the pomp
  Forgot my morning wishes, hastily
  Took a few herbs and apples, and the Day
  Turned and departed silent. I too late
  Under her solemn fillet saw the scorn.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Daughter, Morning, Stars

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Days”

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• I have been known for some time as a person who speaks the truth and speaks it strongly. I have always called a liar a liar and a hypocrite a hypocrite.

  Cindy Sheehan

  Liars, Speak, Persons

  Cindy Sheehan (2005). “Not One More Mother's Child”, Koa Books Incorporated

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• " ... It is not my desire to wound the feelings of any person with whom I am connected in family bonds. I may be a hypocrite," said Mr. Pecksniff, cuttingly, "but I am not a brute."

  Charles Dickens

  Funny, Humorous, Feelings

  Charles Dickens (1867). “The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit”, p.75

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• The moment you introduce a despotism in the world of thought, you succeed in making hypocrites - and you get in such a position that you never know what your neighbor thinks.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Thinking, Atheism, World

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.2195, Library of Alexandria

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• Had he been willing to live a hypocrite, he would have been respectable, he at least could have died surrounded by other hypocrites, and at his death there would have been an imposing funeral, with miles of carriages, filled with hypocrites, and above his hypocritical dust there would have been a hypocritical monument covered with lies.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Lying, Dust, Funeral

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.806, Library of Alexandria

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• I was called before the head matron, a tall woman with a stolid face. She began taking my pedigree. What religion? was the first question. None, I am an atheist. Atheism is prohibited here. You will have to go to church. I replied that I would do nothing of the kind. I did not believe in anything the Church stood for and, not being a hypocrite, I would not attend.

  Emma Goldman

  Atheist, Believe, Atheism

  Emma Goldman (2011). “Living My Life (Two Volumes in One)”, p.133, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Thus one can observe that those who proclaim piety as their goal and purpose usually turn into hypocrites.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Goal, Purpose, Turns

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• Hypocrite women, how seldom we speak
  of our own doubts, while dubiously
  we mother man in his doubt!

  Denise Levertov

  Mother, Men, Hypocrisy

  Denise Levertov (1983). “Poems of Denise Levertov, 1960-1967”, p.135, New Directions Publishing

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• What has been the effect of [religious] coercion? To make one half the world fools, and the other half hypocrites. To support roguery and error all over the earth.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Religious, Errors, Faith Religion

  Thomas Jefferson, Richard Holland Johnston, Thomas Jefferson Memorial Association of the United States “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson”

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• Tis a barbarous temper, and a sign of a very ill nature, to take delight in shocking any one: and, on the contrary, it is the mark of an amiable and a beneficent temper, to say all the kind things one can, without flattery or playing the hypocrite,--and what never fails of procuring the love and esteem of every one; which, next to doing good to a deserving object who wants it, is one of the greatest pleasures of this life.

  Samuel Richardson

  Want, Next, Delight

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• I'm an entertainer; I try to give the public what it wants while I'm on the screen, and I'm completely sincere about it. If I don't happen to be a laughing boy off the screen, that doesn't make me a hypocrite or a phony.

  Johnny Carson

  Boys, Giving, Laughing

  Source: www.alex-haley.com

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• All philosophers can do is to abstain from helping the aggressors and to enjoin social scientists to tell the truth instead of joining the choir of liars and hypocrites.

  Mario Bunge

  Liars, Joining, Helping

  Source: deutsche-denker.de

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• How inexpressible is the meanness of being a hypocrite! how horrible is it to be a mischievous and malignant hypocrite.

  Voltaire

  Hell, Horrible, Mischievous

  Voltaire (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of Voltaire (Illustrated)”, p.4227, Delphi Classics

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• Great Hypocrites are the real atheists.

  Francis Bacon

  Atheist, Real

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• You can only be called a hypocrite if you judge others first.

  John Gay

  Judging, Judgement, Firsts

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• Whoever is a hypocrite in his religion mocks God, presenting to Him the outside and reserving the inward for his enemy.

  Jeremy Taylor

  Hypocrisy, Enemy, Inward

  Jeremy Taylor, Charles Page Eden, Reginald Heber, Alexander Taylor (1848). “The Whole Works of the Right Rev. Jeremy Taylor ...: Sermons”, p.612

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• Even the most elitist director or author who claims that he doesn't care if his works are seen or not, then I have to think that he's either a liar or a hypocrite.

  Michael Haneke

  Liars, Thinking, Directors

  Interview with Sam Adams, www.avclub.com. December 30, 2009.

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• We still dislike hypocrites. It's a very American characteristic. We still like people who have ideas and who are willing to stand up for what they believe in. We're very forgiving of failures and very willing to give people a second and third chance if they mean to do better and are sorry for what they've done.

  David McCullough

  Sorry, Believe, Mean

  Source: belmontvision.com

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• The old style hypocrite was a person who tried to appear better than he actually was; the new style hypocrite tries to appear worse than he or she is.

  Charles Templeton

  Style, Trying, Persons

  Charles Templeton (1955). “Life Looks Up”, New York : Harper

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• Think nothing profitable to you which compels you to break a promise, to lose your self respect, to hate any person, to curse, to act the hypocrite.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Hate, Thinking, Self

  Marcus Aurelius (1945). “Marcus Aurelius and His Times”

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