Hypocrisy Quotes

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

He is a hypocrite who professes what he does not believe; not he who does not practice all he wishes or approves

HYPOCRITE, n. One who, profession virtues that he does not respect secures the advantage of seeming to be what he depises

There are two sorts of hypocrites: one that are deceived with their outward morality and external religion; many of whom are professed Arminians, in the doctrine of justification: and the other, are those that are deceived with false discoveries and elevations; who often cry down works, and men's own righteousness, and talk much of free grace; but at the same time make a righteousness of their discoveries and of their humiliation, and exalt themselves to heaven with them

Morality becomes hypocrisy if it means accepting mothers suffering or dying in connection with unwanted pregnancies and illegal abortions - and unwanted children living in misery

We are not hypocrites in our sleep

Great hypocrite are the real atheists

Hypocrisy is the lubricant of society.
David Hull

Prudery is the hypocrisy of modesty

Asleep, nobody is a hypocrite

Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye devour widows' houses, and for a pretence make long prayer: therefore ye shall receive the greater damnation

If (the) empire of superstition and hypocrisy should be overthrown, happy indeed will it be for the world; but if all religion and morality should be overthrown with it, what advantages will be gained? The doctrine of human equality is founded entire

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

Every man alone is sincere. At the entrance of a second person, hypocrisy begins. We parry and fend the approach of our fellow-man by compliments, by gossip, by amusements, by affairs. We cover up our thought from him under a hundred folds

Hypocrite: the man who murdered both his parents... pleaded for mercy on the grounds that he was an orphan

Because hypocrisy stinks in the nostrils one is likely to rate it as a more powerful agent for destruction than it is

Most of us are aware of and pretend to detest the barefaced instances of that hypocrisy by which men deceive others, but few of us are upon our guard or see that more fatal hypocrisy by which we deceive and over-reach our own hearts

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

We ought to see far enough into a hypocrite to see even his sincerity.

At the entrance of a second person, hypocrisy begins.

A hypocrite despises those whom he deceives, but has no respect for himself. He would make a dupe of himself too, if he could.

Oh, for a forty-parson power to chant Thy praise, Hypocrisy! Oh, for a hymn Loud as the virtues thou dost loudly vaunt, Not practise!

Be hypocritical, be cautious, be Not what you seem but always what you see.







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