Hypocritical Quotes

• It would be hypocritical of me to use being female in some ways, and diss being female in other ways. It's part of the programme.

  Danica Patrick

  Female, Would Be, Use

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• Congress-these, for the most part, illiterate hacks whose fancy vests are spotted with gravy, and whose speeches, hypocritical, unctuous, and slovenly, are spotted also with the gravy of political patronage.

  Mary McCarthy

  Political, Speech, Fancy

  Mary McCarthy (1964). “The humanist in the bathtub”

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• Trump appears to some as too simulated, too much a spectacle. But all authorized politics is spectacle. He just does it in a different style. It's not conservative, its post-liberal. Rather than make hypocritical gestures towards the just, the good and the true, it's about making hyperbolic gestures about their absence.

  McKenzie Wark

  Style, Different, Conservative

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• Early in life, I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose honest arrogance and have seen no occasion to change

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Life, Humility, History

  "The Future of Architecture".

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• Man is the only animal that learns by being hypocritical. He pretends to be polite and then, eventually, he becomes polite.

  Jean Kerr

  Women, Memorable, Learning

  Jean Kerr (1973). “Finishing Touches”, p.9, Dramatists Play Service Inc

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• Of mankind we may say in general they are fickle, hypocritical, and greedy of gain.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Fickle, Literature, May

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• I wore black because I liked it. I still do, and wearing it still means something to me. It's still my symbol of rebellion -- against a stagnant status quo, against our hypocritical houses of God, against people whose minds are closed to others' ideas.

  Johnny Cash

  Mean, Ideas, People

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• As many critics have pointed, out, terrorism is not an enemy. It is a tactic. Because the United States itself has a long record of supporting terrorists and using terrorist tactics, the slogans of today's war on terrorism merely makes the United States look hypocritical to the rest of the world.

  William Eldridge Odom

  War, Long, Enemy

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• The need always to lie and always to avoid the truth stripped everyone of what Custine called 'the two greatest gifts of God-the soul and the speech which communicates it.' People became hypocritical, cunning, mistrustful, cynical, silent, cruel, and indifferent to the fate of others as a result of the destruction of their own souls.

  Theodore Dalrymple

  Lying, Fate, Two

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• Yes, etiquette is hypocritical. Yes, it does inhibit children - if you're lucky. But the idea that it's elitist and irrelevant is like saying language is elitist and irrelevant.

  Judith Martin

  Children, Ideas, Doe

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• Every kind of writing is hypocritical.

  Max Beerbohm

  Writing, Kind

  Max Beerbohm (2005). “Yet Again”, p.56, 1st World Publishing

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• She [Hillary Clinton] knew that's who he[Bill clinton] was before they got married. It would have been hypocritical for her to insist on monogamy.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Bills, Married, Monogamy

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• I live in Los Angeles. It's a very liberal city, but it's so hypocritical in what it's liberal about. You can be driving down Hollywood Boulevard, see a guy in lipstick and high heels wearing a fur coat masturbating into a mailbox. People giving him a hard time as they drive by: Hey, is that real fur? Of course not! That's sick!

  Dana Gould

  Real, Hard Times, Cities

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• I think Anderson Cooper is an opinionated, hypocritical idiot who should be an adult and keep his opinion to himself.

  Dina Lohan

  Thinking, Adults, Opinion

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• The Web makes people hypocritical, it encourages to take pseudonymes

  Jean-Louis Murat

  People

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• I think it would be really hypocritical of me to make the films I make, where I delve into people's lives, to say that my life can't be looked at or that I have to be this pristine, isolated figure.

  Brian Lindstrom

  Thinking, People, Would Be

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I think the media are so hypocritical a lot of the time in the way they chastise something just so that they can print it again.

  Lily Cole

  Thinking, Media, Way

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Whether a Commonwealth suffers more by hypocritical pretenders to religion or by the openly profane? The most dangerous hypocrite in a Commonwealth is one who leaves the gospel for the sake of the law. A man compounded of law and gospel is able to cheat a whole country with his religion and then destroy them under color of law.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Country, Hypocrite, Men

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• France is hypocritical and cowardly. I sometimes think that, having been invaded by the Germans, we'd be run better today.

  Emmanuel Petit

  Running, Thinking, Today

  "French football's best quotes in 2014: Zlatan, Barton, Nasri and Rihanna" by Tom Williams, www.theguardian.com. Decemebr 22, 2014.

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• If you do everything as if it were the last thing you were doing in your life, and stop being aimless, stop letting your emotions override what your mind tells you, stop being hypocritical, self-centered, irritable.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Self, Mind, Lasts

  Marcus Aurelius (2002). “Meditations: A New Translation”, p.18, Modern Library

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• I prefer honest arrogance to hypocritical modesty.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Arrogance, Honest, Modesty

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• I'm being hypocritical because I have a Twitter, but I try to not talk about things like, 'Oh, I had a grapefruit this morning and it was delicious,' because, who cares?

  Zoey Deutch

  Morning, Trying, Who Cares

  "Thomas Mann and Zoey Deutch Talk BEAUTIFUL CREATURES, Auditioning without Seeing the Script, Working with Emma Thopmson, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. February 12, 2013.

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• For what is modesty but hypocritical humility, by means of which, in a world swelling with vile envy, a man seeks to beg pardon for his excellences and merits from those who have none? For
  whoever attributes no merit to himself because he really has none is not modest, but merely honest.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Mean, Humility, Men

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2012). “The World as Will and Representation”, p.234, Courier Corporation

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• Now, because men of our contemporary age are caught up in the ascetic view of a life-denying religious system, but in spite of this cannot deny the primal laws of nature, a distorted morality had to be developed, which spreads hypocritical appearances over hidden actions. This has brought to a head all those outward forms of modern life, whose vacuousness and corruption are now beginning to disgust us.

  Guido von List

  Life, Religious, Nature

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• Punk, I see you as a hypocritical, manipulative waste of skin.

  Wade Barrett

  Wwe, Skins, Waste

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