Quotes about Hypocrisy

Spreading Christianity abroad is sometimes an excuse for not having it at home.

With people of limited ability modesty is merely honesty. But with those who possess great talent it is hypocrisy.

We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.

Action without thought is mindlessness, and thought without action is hypocritical.

For is it not the common experience of all of us - you and I - that we do no incorporate the truth of these propositions in our lives? We say we know, but we do not do as we know. We say we believe, but we do not act like it.

his marriage becoming what most of the other marriages about him were: a dull association of material and social interests held together by ignorance on the one side and hypocrisy on the other.

That very afternoon they had seemed full of brilliant qualities; now she saw that they were merely dull in a loud way.

Anthropology provides Archer with terminology to expose the ferocity and, more important, the hypocrisy characterizing his prosperous, upper-class social community.

Archer's New York tolerated hypocrisy in private relations; but in business matters it exacted a limpid and impeccable honesty. It was a long time since any well-known banker had failed discreditably; but every one remembered the social extinction visited on the heads of the firm when the last event of the kind had happened.

It is no strange thing, to those who look into the nature of corrupted man, to find a violent persecutor a perfect unbeliever of his own creed.

Hell isn't merely paved with good intentions, it is walled and roofed with them.

If it were not for the intellectual snobs who pay, in solid cash, the tribute which Philistinism owes to culture, the arts would perish with their starving practitioners. Let us thank heaven for hypocrisy.