Hypocrit Quotes

Every man alone is sincere. At the entrance of a second person, hypocrisy begins ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

The difference between a saint and a hypocrite is that one lies for his religion, the other by it. ~ Minna Antrim

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. ~ Charles Horton Cooley

Neither man nor angel can discern hypocrisy, the only evil that walks invisible except to God alone. ~ John Milton

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. ~ Bernard De Mandeville

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.' ~ Juan Williams

He who would do good to another must do it in Minute Particulars; General Good is the plea of the scoundrel, hypocrite and flatterer: For Art and Science cannot exist but in minutely organized Particulars. ~ William Blake

How inexpressible is the meanness of being a hypocrite! how horrible is it to be a mischievous and malignant hypocrite. ~ Voltaire

I would be a liar, a hypocrite, or a fool - and I'm not any of those - to say that I don't write for the reader. I do. But for the reader who hears, who really will work at it, going behind what I seem to say. So I write for myself and that reader who will pay the dues. ~ Maya Angelou

Sincerity makes the very least person to be of more value than the most talented hypocrite. ~ Charles Spurgeon

General good is the plea of the scoundrel, hypocite, flatterer. ~ William Blake

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

The world is full of fools and faint hearts; and yet everyone has courage enough to bear the misfortunes, and wisdom enough to manage the affairs, of his neighbor. ~ Benjamin Franklin

The Christian community latched onto a lot of my music, because there were a lot of things about my struggle they related to. But I didn't really want to come out and be identified as a Christian, because I didn't want to be a hypocrite, because my life wasn't right. ~ Scott Stapp

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. ~ Neko Case

A hypocrite is the kind of politician who would cut down a redwood tree, then mount the stump and make a speech for conservation. ~ Adlai E. Stevenson II

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. ~ Hannah Arendt

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