HYPOCRISY QUOTES
quotations about hypocrisy
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- For neither man nor angel can discern
- Hypocrisy, the only evil that walks
- Invisible, except to God alone.
JOHN MILTON, Paradise Lost
Every man alone is sincere. At the entrance of a second person, hypocrisy begins.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON, "Friendship," Essays
No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE, The Scarlet Letter
If Satan ever laughs, it must be at hypocrites; they are the greatest dupes he has; they serve him better than any others, and receive no wages.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON, Lacon
Whenever a man undergoes a considerable change, in consequence of being observed by others, whenever he assumes another gait, another language, than what he had before he thought himself observed, be advised to guard yourself against him.
JOHANN CASPAR LAVATER, Aphorisms on Man
A man is a hypocrite only when he affects to take a delight in what he does not feel, not because he takes a perverse delight in opposite things.
WILLIAM HAZLITT, Characteristics
Is it stupidity or is it moral cowardice which leads men to continue professing a creed that makes self-sacrifice a cardinal principle, while they urge the sacrificing of others, even to the death, when they trespass against us? Is it blindness, or is it an insance inconsistency, which makes them regard as most admirable the bearing of evil for the benefit of others, while they lavish admiration on those who, out of revenge, inflict great evils in return for small ones suffered? Surely our barbarian code of right needs revision, and our barbarian standard of honour should be somewhat changed.
HERBERT SPENCER, The Study of Sociology
The people who make wars, the people who reduce their fellows to slavery, the people who kill and torture and tell lies in the name of their sacred causes, the really evil people in a word—these are never the publicans and the sinners. No, they’re the virtuous, respectable men, who have the finest feelings, the best brains, the noblest ideals.
ALDOUS HUXLEY, After Many a Summer Dies the Swan
It is easier to pretend to be what you are not, than to hide what you really are; he that can accomplish both, has little to learn in hypocrisy.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON, Lacon
Another little phase of everyday life that might be amusing if it were not so pathetic is the pious way some old skinflint whose specialty is foreclosing widows' mortgages can act in church.
ROBERT ELLIOTT GONZALES, Poems and Paragraphs
We ought to see far enough into a hypocrite to see even his sincerity.
G.K. CHESTERTON, Heretics
Trust him with none of thy individualities who is, or pretends to be, two things at once.
JOHANN CASPAR LAVATER, Aphorisms on Man
An immoral character, glossed with religious pretention, is like a rotten egg with an Easter coloring.
Hypocrites act by virtue.... They frame many counterfeits of her, with which they make an ostentatious parade, in all public assemblies, and processions; but the original of what they counterfeit, and which may indeed be said to have fallen from heaven, they produce so seldom, that it is cankered by the rust of sloth, and useless from non-application.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON, Lacon
It is hypocrisy for man to make any other use of his religion, or the credit of it, than to sanctify and save his soul.
BENJAMIN WHICHCOTE, Moral and Religious Aphorisms
Of what benefit is it to say our prayers regularly, go to church, receive the sacraments, and maybe go to confessions too; ay, feast the priest, and give alms to the poor, and yet lie, swear, curse, be drunk, covetous, unclean, proud, revengeful, vain and idle at the same time?
WILLIAM PENN, Some Fruits of Solitude
It does not follow that a man is a hypocrite because his actions give the lie to his words. If he at one time seems a saint, and at other times a sinner, he possibly is both in reality, as well as in appearance. A person may be fond of vice and of virtue too; and practice one or the other, according to the temptation of the moment.
WILLIAM HAZLITT, Characteristics
How do men feel whose whole lives (and many men's lives are) are lies, schemes, and subterfuges? What sort of company do they keep when they are alone? Daily in life I watch men whose every smile is an artifice, and every wink is an hypocrisy. Doth such a fellow where a mask in his own privacy, and to his own conscience?
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY, The Virginians
The formal Hypocrite is very justly compared with a Nightingale. She is more in sound than in substance, a loud and excellent voice, but a little despicable body.
WELLINS CALCOTT, Thoughts Moral and Divine
I think that generally one of the things that—one of the things that I sort of feel like is the meta issue in the type of political commentary that I do is that nobody really cares about hypocrisy—everybody expects hypocrisy from politicians. And so, you tell a politician they are being a hypocrite, and they say, oh, you have such a nasty tune, stop saying those rude things, because they don‘t care about the substance of it.
RACHEL MADDOW, The Rachel Maddow Show, Jul. 5, 2011
The accomplished hypocrite does not exercise his skill upon every possible occasion for the sake of acquiring facility in the use of his instruments. In all unimportant matters, who is more just, more upright, more candid, more honourable?
ARTHUR HELPS, Thoughts in the Cloister and the Crowd
Hypocrisy is the outward acknowledgment of inward shame.
NORMAN MACDONALD, Maxims and Moral Reflections
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