Quote: 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] Author: Bible Sacred Scriptures of Christians and Judaism
Quote: Keep thy smooth words and juggling homilies for those who know thee not. Author: Lord Byron 1788-1824, British Poet
Quote: We ought to see far enough into a hypocrite to see even his sincerity. Author: Gilbert K. Chesterton 1874-1936, British Author
Quote: 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. Author: Charles Horton Cooley 1864-1929, American Sociologist
Quote: With affection beaming in one eye, and calculation shining out of the other. Author: Charles Dickens 1812-1870, British Novelist
Quote: There are two sorts of hypocrites; ones that are deceived with their outward morality and external religion; and the others; those that are deceived with false discoveries and elevation; which often cry down works, and men's own righteousness, and talk much of free grace; but at the same time make righteousness of their discoveries, and of their humiliation, and exalt themselves to heaven with them. Author: Jonathan Edwards 1703-1758, British Theologian, Metaphysician
Quote: At the entrance of a second person, hypocrisy begins. Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist
Quote: Often a noble face hides filthy ways. Author: Euripides BC 480-406, Greek Tragic Poet
Quote: Clean your finger before you point at my spots. Author: Benjamin Franklin 1706-1790, American Scientist, Publisher, Diplomat
Quote: Never to talk to ones self is a form of hypocrisy. Author: Fredrich
Quote: A favorite has no friend! Author: Thomas Gray 1716-1771, British Poet
Quote: A hypocrite despises those whom he deceives, but has no respect for himself. He would make a dupe of himself too, if he could. Author: William Hazlitt 1778-1830, British Essayist
Quote: The only vice which cannot be forgiven is hypocrisy. The repentance of a hypocrite is itself hypocrisy. Author: William Hazlitt 1778-1830, British Essayist
Quote: Man is the only animal that learns by being hypocritical. He pretends to be polite and then, eventually, he becomes polite. Author: Jean Kerr 1923-, American Author, Playwright
Quote: Hypocrisy is the homage that vice pays to virtue. Author: Francois De La Rochefoucauld 1613-1680, French Classical Writer
Quote: 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. Author: Bernard Mandeville 1670-1733, Dutch-born British Author, Physician
Quote: 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. Author: W. Somerset Maugham 1874-1965, British Novelist, Playwright
Quote: For neither man nor angel can discern hypocrisy, the only evil that walks invisible, except to God alone. Author: John Milton 1608-1674, British Poet
Quote: 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. Author: Thomas Paine 1737-1809, Anglo-American Political Theorist, Writer
Quote: Better to be known as a sinner than a hypocrite. Author: Proverb
Quote: The wicked work harder to preach hell than the righteous do to get to heaven. Author: American Proverb Sayings of American Origin
Quote: With people of limited ability modesty is merely honesty. But with those who possess great talent it is hypocrisy. Author: Arthur Schopenhauer 1788-1860, German Philosopher
Quote: 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. Author: Charles Haddon Spurgeon 1834-1892, British Baptist Preacher
Quote: 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. Author: Count Leo Tolstoy 1828-1910, Russian Novelist, Philosopher
Quote: All humans are hypocrites; the biggest hypocrite of all is the one who claims to detest hypocrisy. Author: Peter Wastholm
Quote: 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. Author: Oscar Wilde 1856-1900, British Author, Wit
Quote: How clever you are, my dear! You never mean a single word you say. Author: Oscar Wilde 1856-1900, British Author, Wit
Quote: The value of an idea has nothing whatever to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it. Author: Oscar Wilde 1856-1900, British Author, Wit
Quote: The only thing worse than a liar is a liar that's also a hypocrite! Author: Tennessee Williams 1914-1983, American Dramatist