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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
  • The essence of immorality is the tendency to make an exception of myself.

  • 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
  • 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 (1992). “Human Nature and the Social Order”, p.350, Transaction Publishers
  • Hypocrites in the Church? Yes, and in the lodge and at the home. Don't hunt through the Church for a hypocrite. Go home and look in the mirror. Hypocrites? Yes. See that you make the number one less.

  • The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be.

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

  • 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.

    Jobs   Fear   Hypocrite  
    Cakes and Ale (1930) ch. 1
  • 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.
  • We ought to see far enough into a hypocrite to see even his sincerity.

    "Heretics". Book by G. K. Chesterton, chapter V: "Mr. H. G. Wells and the Giants", 1905.
  • Sincerity makes the very least person to be of more value than the most talented hypocrite.

  • 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
  • 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
  • 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.

  • I was not a hypocrite, with one real face and several false ones. I had several faces because I was young and didn't know who I was or wanted to be.

    Real   Hypocrite   Faces  
    Milan Kundera (1983). “The Joke”, Viking Press
  • It is always easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them.

    In Phyllis Bottome Alfred Adler (1939) p. 76
  • 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.

    "The Fable of the Bees". Book by Bernard Mandeville. "An Essay on Charity, and Charity-Schools", p. 319, 1732.
  • Clean your finger before you point at my spots.

    Wise   Wisdom   Hypocrite  
    Benjamin Franklin (2013). “The Art of Virtue: Ben Franklin's Formula for Successful Living”, p.46, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.
  • God has given you one face, and you make yourself another.

    William Shakespeare, Nick De Somogyi (2001). “Hamlet: The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke : the First Folio of 1623 and a Parallel Modern Edition”, p.106, Nick Hern Books
  • 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.

  • If Satan ever laughs, it must be at hypocrites; they are the greatest dupes he has.

    Charles Caleb COLTON (1849). “L.P.”, p.221
  • I think people are born bisexual and the make subconscious choices based on the pressures of society. I have no question in my mind about being bisexual. But I'm also a hypocrite: I would never date a girl who is bisexual, because that means they also sleep with men, and men are so dirty that I'd never sleep with a girl who had slept with a man.

    Girl   Dirty   Hypocrite  
  • 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.

    Jerusalem ch. 3, plate 55, l. 60 (1815)
  • With people of limited ability modesty is merely honesty. But with those who possess great talent it is hypocrisy.

  • 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  
  • We are all hypocrites. We cannot see ourselves or judge ourselves the way we see and judge others.

    Hypocrite   Judging   Way  
    Jose Emilio Pacheco (1987). “Battles in the Desert & Other Stories”, p.86, New Directions Publishing
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