Famous Quotes & Sayings

Francois VI Duc de La Rochefoucauld

Hypocrisy is the homage that vice pays to virtue.

Javier Garcia

I'm kind of paying homage to the old styles, (and) at the same time mixing it up.

Bill Williams

Pope John Paul II, a man of peace and compassion, was one of the most revered leaders of our time. With this stately, white rose, we pay homage to his far-reaching impact upon the people of the world.

William Hazlitt

He is a hypocrite who professes what he does not believe; not he who does not practice all he wishes or approves

Robin Williams

For me, comedy starts as a spew, a kind of explosion, and then you sculpt it from there, if at all. It comes out of a deeper, darker side. Maybe it comes from anger, because I'm outraged by cruel absurdities, the hypocrisy that exists everywhere, even within yourself, where it's hardest to see.

Samuel Johnson

Hypocrisy is the necessary burden of villainy.

Winston Churchill

No crime is so great as daring to excel.

Robert Green Ingersoll

There are some truths, however, that we should never forget: Superstition has always been the relentless enemy of science; faith has been a hater of demonstration; hypocrisy has been sincere only in its dread of truth, and all religions are inconsistent with mental freedom.

Oswald Chambers

The deadliest Pharisaism today is not hypocrisy, but unconscious unreality.

Josh Billings

I don't never have any trouble in regulating my own conduct, but to keep other folks' straight is what bothers me.

Oscar Wilde

There are moments when one has to choose between living one's own life, fully, entirely, completely-or dragging out some false, shallow, degrading existence that the world in its hypocrisy demands.

Jonah Goldberg

Our fear of hypocrisy is forcing us to live in a world where gluttons are fine, so long as they champion gluttony.

Josh Thomas

He really works with you and pays attention.

Bryan Colangelo

He's a thug, and I want him out. He's always been a thug. I'll do everything in my power to see that he pays for it.

Tyra Grant

He does a lot of different things for me. He pays for me going to camp. He's a very big part of my life.

Al Diamond

An individualist is one who pays his taxes with a smile

Ellen Chenoweth

I like spending a lot of time fine-tuning all the small characters. I think it really pays off.

Richard McGrath

We're a reputable organization that pays its bills.

Zell Miller

The president has come up with a bold, well-thought-out plan that will let virtually every American who pays taxes keep more of their hard-earned money,

Matthew Stewart

Whoever pays the consultant gets pretty much what they want to hear.

Vicente Fox

To be united, to be friendly, pays and pays well,

Rebecca West

The general tendency [is] to be censorious of the vices to which one has not been tempted.

Saint Augustine

The will is truly free, when it is not the slave of vices and sins.

William Graham Sumner

Nine-tenths of our measures for preventing vice are really protective towards it, because they ward off the penalty.

William Hazlitt

The vices are never so well employed as in combating one another.

Laurence Sterne

I have so great a contempt and detestation for meanness, that I could sooner make a friend of one who had committed murder, than of a person who could be capable, in any instance, of the former vice. Under meanness, I comprehend dishonesty; under dishonesty, ingratitude; under ingratitude, irreligion; and under this latter, every species of vice and immorality in human nature.

Niccolo Machiavelli

A prince must be prudent enough to know how to escape the bad reputation of those vices that would lose the state for him, and must protect himself from those that will not lose it for him, if this is possible; but if he cannot, he need not concern himself unduly if he ignores these less serious vices.

Cassandra Clare

Perhaps [James Herondale] loved vice for vice's own sake.

Joseph Joubert

Virtue by calculation is the virtue of vice.

Oscar Wilde

The worst vice of the fanatic is his sincerity.