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  • If it were not for the intellectual snobs who pay - in solid cash - the arts would perish with their starving practitioners. Let us thank heaven for hypocrisy.

    Aldous Huxley (2000). “Complete Essays: 1926-1929”, Ivan R Dee
  • Man is the only animal that learns by being hypocritical. He pretends to be polite and then, eventually, he becomes polite.

    Jean Kerr (1973). “Finishing Touches”, p.9, Dramatists Play Service Inc
  • Every man alone is sincere. At the entrance of a second person, hypocrisy begins

    Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Ralph Waldo Emerson: Essays: First and Second Series”, p.144, Library of America
  • Millions of innocent men, women and children, since the introduction of Christianity, have been burnt, tortured, fined and imprisoned; yet we have not advanced one inch towards uniformity. What has been the effect of coercion? To make one half the world fools, and the other half hypocrites. To support roguery and error all over the earth.

    Thomas Jefferson (2010). “The Works of Thomas Jefferson: Notes on Virginia II, Correspondence 1782-1786”, p.80, Cosimo, Inc.
  • 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.

    'On Revolution' (1963) ch. 2
  • 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 (2007). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.82, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.
  • That's why we had Louis C.K. portray the harder line Communist, to accuse [Dalton] Trumbo of being a hypocrite.

    Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com
  • The good thing about being a hypocrite is that you get to keep your values.

    "A Conversation with Alan Alda". NPR's "Here & Now", September 13, 2007.
  • Because hypocrisy stinks in the nostrils one is likely to rate it as a more powerful agent for destruction than it is.

    Rebecca West (2010). “The Strange Necessity: Essays and Reviews”, p.175, Open Road Media
  • How inexpressible is the meanness of being a hypocrite! how horrible is it to be a mischievous and malignant hypocrite.

    Voltaire (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of Voltaire (Illustrated)”, p.4227, Delphi Classics
  • 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.

    Jonathan Edwards (1844). “The Works of President Edwards in Four Volumes: A Reprint of the Worcester Edition, with Valuable Additions and a Copious General Index”, p.52
  • A hypocrite is the kind of politician who would cut down a redwood tree, then mount the stump and make a speech for conservation.

    "Mark Souder: The Hypocrisy of the Hypocrite" by Diana Butler Bass, www.beliefnet.com. May 18, 2010.
  • A hypocrite despises those whom he deceives, but has no respect for himself. He would make a dupe of himself too, if he could.

    William Hazlitt (1837). “Characteristics: in the manner of Rochefoucault's Maxims [by W. Hazlitt].”, p.142
  • The hypocrite who always plays one and the same part ceases at last to be a hypocrite.

    Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two”, p.46, Courier Corporation
  • I was called before the head matron, a tall woman with a stolid face. She began taking my pedigree. What religion? was the first question. None, I am an atheist. Atheism is prohibited here. You will have to go to church. I replied that I would do nothing of the kind. I did not believe in anything the Church stood for and, not being a hypocrite, I would not attend.

    Emma Goldman (2011). “Living My Life (Two Volumes in One)”, p.133, Cosimo, Inc.
  • It is always easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them.

    In Phyllis Bottome Alfred Adler (1939) p. 76
  • There are many who are hypocrites although they think they are not, and there are many who are afraid of being hypocrites although they certainly are not. Which is the one and which is the other God knows, and none but He.

    Walter Hilton (1957). “The Ladder of Perfection”
  • If Satan ever laughs, it must be at hypocrites; they are the greatest dupes he has.

    Charles Caleb COLTON (1849). “L.P.”, p.221
  • He is a hypocrite who professes what he does not believe; not he who does not practice all he wishes or approves.

    William Hazlitt (1904). “The Collected Works of William Hazlitt: Fugitive writings”
  • The only thing worse than a liar is a liar that's also a hypocrite!

    Liars   Lying   Hypocrite  
    Tennessee Williams, John Patrick Shanley (2010). “The Rose Tattoo”, p.118, New Directions Publishing
  • The difference between a saint and a hypocrite is that one lies for his religion, the other by it.

    Women   Lying   Hypocrite  
  • Kids have what I call a built-in hypocrisy antenna that comes up and blocks out what you're saying when you're being a hypocrite.

    Block   Hypocrite   Kids  
  • Some hypocrites and seeming mortified men, that held down their heads, were like the little images that they place in the very bowing of the vaults of churches, that look as if they held up the church, but are but puppets.

    "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations". Book by J.K. Hoyt & K.L. Roberts, p. 383-84, 1922.
  • The only vice that cannot be forgiven is hypocrisy. The repentance of a hypocrite is itself hypocrisy.

    William Hazlitt (1837). “Characteristics: in the manner of Rochefoucault's Maxims [by W. Hazlitt].”, p.94
  • The reason any conservative's failing is always major news is that it allows liberals to engage in their very favorite taunt: Hypocrisy! Hypocrisy is the only sin that really inflames them. Inasmuch as liberals have no morals, they can sit back and criticize other people for failing to meet the standards that liberals simply renounce. It's an intriguing strategy. By openly admitting to being philanderers, draft dodgers, liars, weasels and cowards, liberals avoid ever being hypocrites.

    Ann Coulter (2004). “How to Talk to a Liberal (If You Must): The World According to Ann Coulter”, p.154, Crown Forum
  • As witnesses not of our intentions but of our conduct, we can be true or false, and the hypocrite's crime is that he bears false witness against himself. 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.

    'On Revolution' (1963) ch. 2
  • The true hypocrite is the one who ceases to perceive his deception, the one who lies with sincerity.

    Truth   Lying   Hypocrite  
    Andre Gide (2012). “The Counterfeiters: A Novel”, p.427, Vintage
  • Only the hypocrite is really rotten to the core.

    'On Revolution' (1963) ch. 2
  • Everybody is a hypocrite. You can't live on this planet without being a hypocrite.

    "‘Whale Wars’ Star Paul Watson Discusses Sea Shepherd, Libya, And Bluefin Tuna" by Joanna Zelman, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 3, 2011.
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