722 Quotes About Hypocrisy

To invoke alien law when it agrees with one's own thinking, and ignore it otherwise, is not reasoned decisionmaking, but sophistry.

Your religion...serves you only for an excuse for your faults, but is no incentive to your virtue.

You only really stop being an immigrant when you reject other immigrants and try to slam the door in their faces when they try to emulate you.

How can you hate Hitler so bad an'then turn around and be ugly about folks at home?

That debauchery was not a good thing in a married man did not even occur to him [Tsar Nicholas I], and he would have been very surprised if anyone had condemned him for it. But, even though he was convinced that he had acted as he ought, he was left with some sort of unpleasant aftertaste, and, to stifle that feeling, he began thinking about something that always soothed him: about what a great man he was.

No truth in such people, who live as the hypocrite within the way of hypocrisy.

Shakespeare’s woes and concerns are all human and can be easily perceived by any reader regardless of religious, ethnic, or educationalbackgrounds. To him, human vices are not only odious but pathetic as well. Hypocrisy irks him tremendously, and he is sharply aware of itsstings when he says: “God has given you one face, and you make yourself another” (Hamlet 3.1.).

The hypocrisy of a hypocrite holds such a poison and sword that affect and effect more effectively than enmity of an enemy.

Everyone pushes and is angry at the people who push them.