Famous Quotes & Sayings

E. M. Forster

The Germans are called brutal, the Spanish cruel, the Americans superficial, and so on; but we are perfide Albion, the island of hypocrites, the people who have built up an Empire with a Bible in one hand, a pistol in the other, and financial concessions in both pockets. Is the charge true? I think it is.

Rush Limbaugh

A Democrat hypocrite will never get harmed.

Samantha Power

Historical hypocrites have themselves carried out the very human rights abuses that they suddenly decide warrant intervention elsewhere.

Sigmund Freud

In matters of sexuality we are at present, every one of us, ill or well, nothing but hypocrites.

John Milton

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

Matthew McConaughey

Hypocrites do the devil's drudgery in Christ's livery.

John Piper

We have a name for those who try to praise when they have no pleasure in the object. We call them hypocrites.

Martin Luther

I was born to fight devils and factions. It is my business to remove obstacles, to cut down thorns, to fill up quagmires and to open and make straight paths. If I must have some failing let me rather speak the truth with too great sincerity than once to act the hypocrite and conceal the truth.

Martin Luther

It is the nature of all hypocrites and false prophets to create a conscience where there is none, and to cause conscience to disappear where it does exist.

Doc Holliday

It appears my hypocrisy knows no bounds.

D. H. Lawrence

Happiness was a term of hypocrisy used to bluff other people.

David Foster Wallace

The great thing about irony is that it splits things apart, gets up above them so we can see the flaws and hypocrisies and duplicates.

Susan Sontag

One of the author's most ancient roles is to call the community to account for its hypocrisies and bad faith ...

Thomas Bailey Aldrich

The ring of a false coin is not more recognizable than that of a rhyme setting forth a false sorrow.

Rajneesh

My function here is to destroy all hypocrisy in you.

Marie Corelli

A criminal is twice a criminal when he adds hypocrisy to his crime.

Martin Parr

Criticism is hypocrisy; society is hypocrisy. I'm a tourist. I'm a consumer. I do the things that I photograph and can be criticized of.

Mignon McLaughlin

People will disapprove of you if you're unhappy, or if you're happy in The Wrong Way.

Jonathan Lamy

These conversions are simple notionally, but there is a lot of devil in the detail.

Bible Bible

Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.

Thomas Carlyle

Sarcasm is the language of the devil, for which reason I have long since as good as renounced it

Jerry Lee Lewis

You've got to walk and talk with God to go to heaven... I have the devil in me! If I didn't have, I'd be Christian!

Jane Jacobs

In wretched outcomes, the devil is in the details.

Desiderius Erasmus

'Tis an easier matter to raise the devil than to lay him.

Eduardo Galeano

There are some writers who feel they are elected by God. I am not. I am elected by the devil - this is clear.

Billy Graham

Transcendental meditation is evil because when you are meditating, it opens space within you for the devil to enter.

Bronson Arroyo

The reason I took a discount is because I love playing here and I want to stay here my whole career. They (agents) worried that I would be traded to a small-market team like the Royals or Devil Rays.