Famous Quotes & Sayings

Friedrich Nietzsche

Whoever aims publicly at great things and at length perceives secretly that he is too weak to achieve them, has usually also insufficient strength to renounce his aims publicly, and then inevitably becomes a hypocrite.

Friedrich Nietzsche

The hypocrite who always plays one and the same part ceases at last to be a hypocrite.

Neko Case

I would be a huge hypocrite if I didn't tell you that at one time in my life I thought the way that you made music was you got on a major label and you got famous.

Niccolo Machiavelli

It is necessary that the prince should know how to color his nature well, and how to be a hypocrite and dissembler. For men are so simple, and yield so much to immediate necessity, that the deceiver will never lack dupes.

Noam Chomsky

Hypocrites are those who apply to others the standards that they refuse to accept for themselves.

Oswald Chambers

Take care lest you play the hypocrite by spending all your time trying to get others right before you worship God yourself.

Joseph Smith, Jr.

I love that man better who swears a stream as long as my arm yet deals justice to his neighbors and mercifully deals his substance to the poor, than the long, smooth faced hypocrite.

Joseph Smith, Jr.

I am a lover of the cause of Christ and of virtue, chastity, and an upright, steady course of conduct and a holy walk. I despise a hypocrite or a covenant breaker. I judge them not; God shall judge them according to their works. I am a lover even of mine enemies, for an enemy seeketh to destroy openly. I can pray for those who despitefully use and persecute me, but for all I cannot hope.

Kristin Chenoweth

I'm sick of people who've never been to church telling me that church is full of hypocrites, and people who've never read the Bible telling me that it's baloney.

Moliere

Those whose conduct gives room for talk are always the first to attack their neighbors.

Marvin Gaye

Politics and hypocrites is turning us all into lunatics.

Juan Williams

For me, the key is I always have to be the same person.If someone was to hear me say something on Fox and hear me say something different on NPR, they would say, 'The guy is a hypocrite.'

Joseph Sobran

The hypocrite recognizes the honest man as his deadly enemy.

Paris Hilton

I’m an animal activist. Many people say that I’m a hypocrite, because I eat burgers and stuff like that but I won’t wear fur. But I’m not a hypocrite. I just only wear fake fur.

If you cultivate piety as an end and not a means, you will become a hypocrite.

Laurence Sterne

Of all the cants which are canted in this canting world, - though the cant of hypocrites may be the worst, - the cant of criticism is the most tormenting!

Neal Stephenson

Virtually all political discourse in the days of my youth was devoted to the ferreting out of hypocrisy... Because they were hypocrites, the Victorians were despised in the late twentieth century. Many of the persons who held such opinions were, of course, guilty of the most nefarious conduct themselves, and yet saw no paradox in holding such views because they were not hypocrites themselves-they took no moral stances and lived by none.

Laurence Sterne

Of all the cants which are canted in this canting world - though the cant of hypocrites may be the worst - the cant of criticism is the most tormenting!

Johnny Carson

I'm an entertainer; I try to give the public what it wants while I'm on the screen, and I'm completely sincere about it. If I don't happen to be a laughing boy off the screen, that doesn't make me a hypocrite or a phony.

Johnny Carson

People are hypocrites. If you ask them what they want to see on TV, they'll tell you they want better quality programming. And then what do they watch? 'Gilligan's Island.'

Luther Campbell

I also want to announce that I'm changing my name. I haven't told anyone. You get the scoop.

George MacDonald

Half of the misery in the world comes from trying to look, instead of trying to be, what one is not.

Logan Pearsall Smith

All reformers, however strict their social conscience, live in houses just as big as they can pay for.

John Gay

You can only be called a hypocrite if you judge others first.

Jonathan Edwards

There are two sorts of hypocrites: ones that are deceived with their outward morality and external religion; and the others are those that are deceived with false discoveries and elevation; which often cry down works, and men's own righteousness, and tlak much of free grace, but at the same time make a righteousness of their discoveries and of their humiliation, and exalt themselves to heaven with them.

Francois Fenelon

No human power can force the intrenchments of the human mind: compulsion never persuades; it only makes hypocrites.

Lord Byron

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

Lou Holtz

The standards you establish for others must reflect the standards you set for yourself. No one will follow a hypocrite.

Mahatma Gandhi

Corruption and hypocrisy ought not to be inevitable products of democracy, as they undoubtedly are today.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Thus one can observe that those who proclaim piety as their goal and purpose usually turn into hypocrites.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Those who make use of devotion as a means and end generally are hypocrites.

Henry Ward Beecher

You cannot play the hypocrite before God; and to obtain pardon you must cease to sin, as well as to be exercised by a spirit of repentance.

Johann Kaspar Lavater

He who is passionate and hasty is generally honest. It is your cool, dissembling hypocrite of whom you should beware.