Quotes about Hypocrisy

If you do not live what you believe, you will end up believing what you live.

None of us have pure thoughts; we all live in glass houses.

For outward show is a wonderful perverter of the reason.

Never regard something as doing you good if it makes you betray a trust, or lose your sense of shame, or makes you show hatred, suspicion, ill will, or hypocrisy, or a desire for things best done behind closed doors.

It is the peculiar quality of a fool to perceive the faults of others and to forget his own.

They are hypocrites, they think the Church is a cage to keep God in, so he will stay locked up there and not go wandering about the earth during the week, poking his nose into their business, and looking in the depths and darkness and doubleness of their hearts, and their lack of true charity; and they believed they need only be bothered about him on Sundays when they have their best clothes on and their faces straight, and their hands washed and their gloves on, and their stories all prepared.

you could believe you were living virtuously and also murder people if you were a fanatic.

Prayer is good; but when used as a substitute for obedience, it is nothing but a blatant hypocrisy... Don't hedge! Time flies! ... Enlist!

It strikes me as somewhat odd that the people who use God's name most frequently, both in life and in literature, usually don't believe in him.

The main thing between you and God is not so much your sins; it's your damnable good works.

Have you noticed that it is usually easier to judge than obey? Religious people are especially good at it. I tried

You know you can't be a nice girl inside if you're a dirty slut outside