Famous Quotes & Sayings

Doc Holliday

It appears my hypocrisy knows no bounds.

D. H. Lawrence

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

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.

Georges Bernanos

God! how is it that we fail to recognize that the mask of pleasure, stripped of all hypocrisy, is that of anguish?

James Herbert

Never underestimate the hypocrisy of politicians.

Francois Rabelais

An old monkey never makes a pretty face.

Francois Rabelais

Indeed, said the monk, a mass, a matins, and vespers well rung are half-said.

Henry David Thoreau

Really, there is no infidelity, nowadays, so great as that which prays, and keeps the Sabbath, and rebuilds the churches. The sealer of the South Pacific preaches a truer doctrine.

Hosea Ballou

Hypocrisy is oftenest clothed in the garb of religion.

Honore de Balzac

Manners are the hypocrisy of a nation.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Hypocrisy is an homage that vice renders to virtue.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The qualities we have, make us so ridiculous as those which we affect.

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.

Judith Martin

Hypocrisy is not generally a social sin, but a virtue.

Lord Byron

In England the only homage which they pay to Virtue - is hypocrisy.

Henry Ward Beecher

Cant is the twin sister of hypocrisy.

Lizz Winstead

I do a lot of reading of news so I can be smarter, and I do a lot of watching TV news so I can know why Americans aren't very smart. Then I can point out the hypocrisy of politicians or the media.

Orson Scott Card

So from then on, he looked at all his choices and said, What would a good person do, and then did it. But he has now learned something very important about human nature. If you spend your whole life pretending to be good, then you are indistinguishable from a good person. Relentless hypocrisy eventually becomes the truth.