722 Quotes About Hypocrisy

The more you feel the need to signal your virtue, the more you expose your real lack of it

I made up three lists: Candidate's Accomplishments (real and imaginary), Accusations Against Opponent (including rumours, allegations, innuendos, and lies), and Empty Promises (the more improbable, the better). Then it was merely a matter of taking various combinations of items from the three lists, throwing in some bombast, tossing in a few local references, and, there it was - a brand new speech.

If ever you get invited into someone's home,' my father said (as he had been invited five or six times that morning), 'you go into the sitting-room and you say, “Oh, what an attractive room!" even if you think it's hideous.

We live in a world where the funeral matters more than the dead, the wedding more than love and the physical rather than the intellect. We live in the container culture, which despises the content.

One of the emotional affordances of digital communication is that one can always hide behind deliberated nonchalance.

But, of course, what is up on Facebook is her edited life.

It seems the attributes our hypocrisy induces others to adduce to us would bring no value addition to our own conscience.

The Catholic Church standing in "solidarity" with members of the LGBT community while condemning their behavior as "sinful" is a little like attempting to stand with two feet in one shoe. "Love the sinner, hate the sin" sounds really high-minded until you realize the only sin committed was being born different.

The only difference between a saint and a pervert is Hypocrisy.