Famous Quotes About Hypocrisy By Reference

-28 Items- A great collection of quotes about Hypocrisy. Quotations are arranged alphabetically and can be sorted by any header. This list of Hypocrisy sayings and quotes includes the sources and authors of the Hypocrisy quotes when possible. We hope you find this list of quotations about the topic Hypocrisy useful as a reference list or informative as you surf the web, and you can find many other lists of quotes about subjects on Ranker. You may copy this fact-based list to build your own just like it, re-rank it to fit your views, then publish it to share with your friends.

Print Blog View Views: 4750 Items: 28

< >

Show: 25 100

Order Name Author Subjects

1

A hypocrite despises those whom he deceives, but has no respect for himself. He would make a dupe of himself too, if he could.

William Hazlitt

Hypocrisy
2

And the wild regrets, and the bloody sweats, none knew so well as I: for he who lives more lives than one more deaths than one must die.

Oscar Wilde

Hypocrisy
3

And when thou prayest, thou shalt not be as the hypocrites are: for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and in the corners of the streets, that they may be seen of men. Verily I say unto you, They have their reward. But thou, when thou prayest, enter into thy closet, and when thou hast shut thy door, pray to thy Father which is in secret; and thy Father which seeth in secret shall reward thee openly. But when ye pray, use not vain repetitions, as the heathen do: for they think that they shall be heard for their much speaking. Be not ye therefore like unto them: for your Father knoweth what things ye have need of, before ye ask him. After this manner therefore pray ye: Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.

Jesus Christ

Prayer, Hypocrisy, Lord's Prayer, Hypocrites
4

And why do you look at the speck that is in your brother's eye, but do not notice the log that is in your own eye? -- Matthew 7:3

Hypocrisy
5

At the entrance of a second person, hypocrisy begins.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Hypocrisy
6

Better to be known as a sinner than a hypocrite.

Hypocrisy
7

Clean your finger before you point at my spots.

Benjamin Franklin

Hypocrisy
8

For neither man nor angel can discern hypocrisy, the only evil that walks invisible, except to God alone.

John Milton

Hypocrisy
9

How clever you are, my dear! You never mean a single word you say.

Oscar Wilde

Hypocrisy
10

Hypocrisy in anything whatever may deceive the cleverest and most penetrating man, but the least wide-awake of children recognizes it, and is revolted by it, however ingeniously it may be disguised.

Leo Tolstoy

Hypocrisy
11

Hypocrisy is the homage that vice pays to virtue.

François de La Rochefoucauld

Hypocrisy
12

Hypocrisy is the most difficult and nerve-racking vice that any man can pursue; it needs an unceasing vigilance and a rare detachment of spirit. It cannot, like adultery or gluttony, be practiced at spare moments; it is a whole-time job.

W. Somerset Maugham

Hypocrisy
13

If we divine a discrepancy between a man's words and his character, the whole impression of him becomes broken and painful; he revolts the imagination by his lack of unity, and even the good in him is hardly accepted.

Charles Cooley

Hypocrisy
14

It is impossible to calculate the moral mischief, if I may so express it, that mental lying has produced in society. When a man has so far corrupted and prostituted the chastity of his mind as to subscribe his professional belief to things he does not believe he has prepared himself for the commission of every other crime.

Thomas Paine

Hypocrisy
15

Keep thy smooth words and juggling homilies for those who know thee not.

George Gordon Noel Byron, 6th Baron Byron

Hypocrisy
16

Man is the only animal that learns by being hypocritical. He pretends to be polite and then, eventually, he becomes polite.

Jean Kerr

Hypocrisy
17

Moreover when ye fast, be not, as the hypocrites, of a sad countenance: for they disfigure their faces, that they may appear unto men to fast. Verily I say unto you, They have their reward. But thou, when thou fastest, anoint thine head, and wash thy face; That thou appear not unto men to fast, but unto thy Father which is in secret: and thy Father, which seeth in secret, shall reward thee openly.

Jesus Christ

Fasting, Hypocrisy, Hypocrites
18

No habit or quality is more easily acquired than hypocrisy, nor any thing sooner learned than to deny the sentiments of our hearts and the principle we act from: but the seeds of every passion are innate to us, and nobody comes into the world without them.

Bernard de Mandeville

Hypocrisy
19

Often a noble face hides filthy ways.

Euripides

Hypocrisy
20

The only thing worse than a liar is a liar that's also a hypocrite!

Tennessee Williams

Hypocrisy
21

The only vice which cannot be forgiven is hypocrisy. The repentance of a hypocrite is itself hypocrisy.

William Hazlitt

Hypocrisy
22

The value of an idea has nothing whatever to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it.

Oscar Wilde

Hypocrisy
23

The wicked work harder to preach hell than the righteous do to get to heaven.

Hypocrisy
24

We ought to see far enough into a hypocrite to see even his sincerity.

G. K. Chesterton

Hypocrisy
25

What makes it so plausible to assume that hypocrisy is the vice of vices is that integrity can indeed exist under the cover of all other vices except this one. Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really rotten to the core.

Hannah Arendt

Hypocrisy
26

When you see a great deal of religion displayed in his shop window, you may depend on it, that he keeps a very small stock of it within.

Charles Spurgeon

Hypocrisy
27

With affection beaming in one eye, and calculation shining out of the other.

Charles Dickens

Hypocrisy
28

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

Arthur Schopenhauer

Hypocrisy

Showing items 1 - 25 of 28

Famous Quotes About Hypocrisy you can use this list to help make your own ranked list about this topic

A hypocrite despises those whom he deceives, but has no respect for himself. He would make a dupe of himself too, if he could.

And the wild regrets, and the bloody sweats, none knew so well as I: for he who lives more lives than one more deaths than one must die.

And why do you look at the speck that is in your brother's eye, but do not notice the log that is in your own eye? -- Matthew 7:3

At the entrance of a second person, hypocrisy begins.

Better to be known as a sinner than a hypocrite.

Clean your finger before you point at my spots.

For neither man nor angel can discern hypocrisy, the only evil that walks invisible, except to God alone.

How clever you are, my dear! You never mean a single word you say.

Hypocrisy in anything whatever may deceive the cleverest and most penetrating man, but the least wide-awake of children recognizes it, and is revolted by it, however ingeniously it may be disguised.

Hypocrisy is the homage that vice pays to virtue.

Hypocrisy is the most difficult and nerve-racking vice that any man can pursue; it needs an unceasing vigilance and a rare detachment of spirit. It cannot, like adultery or gluttony, be practiced at spare moments; it is a whole-time job.

If we divine a discrepancy between a man's words and his character, the whole impression of him becomes broken and painful; he revolts the imagination by his lack of unity, and even the good in him is hardly accepted.

Keep thy smooth words and juggling homilies for those who know thee not.

Man is the only animal that learns by being hypocritical. He pretends to be polite and then, eventually, he becomes polite.

No habit or quality is more easily acquired than hypocrisy, nor any thing sooner learned than to deny the sentiments of our hearts and the principle we act from: but the seeds of every passion are innate to us, and nobody comes into the world without them.

Often a noble face hides filthy ways.

The only thing worse than a liar is a liar that's also a hypocrite!

The only vice which cannot be forgiven is hypocrisy. The repentance of a hypocrite is itself hypocrisy.

The value of an idea has nothing whatever to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it.

The wicked work harder to preach hell than the righteous do to get to heaven.

We ought to see far enough into a hypocrite to see even his sincerity.

When you see a great deal of religion displayed in his shop window, you may depend on it, that he keeps a very small stock of it within.

With affection beaming in one eye, and calculation shining out of the other.

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