722 Quotes About Hypocrisy
- Author Voltaire
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Los Padres son dueños de todo y la gente no posée nada; es la obra maestra de la razón y la justicia. Yo no encuentro nada tan extraordinario como los Padres, que aquí luchan contra el rey de España y el de Portugal, y que allí, en Europa, confiesan a esos mismos reyes; que aquí matan españoles, y que en Madrid los envían al cielo: es algo portentoso
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- Author Viet Thanh Nguyen
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Priests always had much attention lavished on them by their starstruck fans,those devout housewives and wealthy congregants who treated them as if they were guardians of the velvet rope blocking entrance into that ever so exclusive nightclub, Heaven.
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- Author Joseph Conrad
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I am stupid, am I not? What more can I want? If you ask them who is brave--who is true--who is just--who is it they would trust with their lives?--they would say, Tuan Jim. And yet they can never know the real, real truth....
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- Author H.W. Brands
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Chinese immigrant: "Americans make a mere practice of loving justice.
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- Author George Orwell
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I hate purity, I hate goodness, I don't want any virtue to exist anywhere. I want everyone to be corrupt to the bones.
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- Author Mokokoma Mokhonoana
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Hypocrisy is when you get mad at a friend for telling their other friend a secret that your other friend told you.
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- Author Aristophanes
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To win the people, always cook them some savoury that pleases them.
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- Author Jane Austen
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For my part, I am determined never to speak of it again to anybody. I told my sister Phillips so the other day.
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- Author Catherynne M. Valente
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Marya Morevna, we are better at this than you are. We can hold two terrible ideas at once in our hearts. Never have your folk delighted us more, been more like family. For a devil, hypocrisy is a parlour game, like charades. Such fun, and when the evening is done we shall be holding our bellies to keep from dying of laughter.
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