HYPOCRISY

Quote: What makes it so plausible to assume that hypocrisy is the vice of vices is that integrity can indeed exist under the cover of all other vices except this one. Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really rotten to the core. Author: Hannah Arendt 1906-1975, German-born American Political Philosopher

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