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Image of Francois de La Rochefoucauld
The qualities we have, make us so ridiculous as those which we affect.
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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Image of Napoleon Bonaparte
Courage cannot be counterfeited. It is one virtue that escapes hypocrisy.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
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Image of Michel de Montaigne
Saying is one thing and doing is another; we are to consider the sermon and the preacher distinctly and apart.
- Michel de Montaigne
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Image of Neal Stephenson
If the Coastal Republic had believed in the existence of virtue, it could at least have aspired to hypocrisy.
- Neal Stephenson
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Image of John Selden
We pick out a text here and there to make it serve our turn; whereas , if we take it all together, and considered what went before and what followed after, we should find it meant no such thing.
- John Selden
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Image of Henry Ward Beecher
It will not do to be saints at meeting and sinners everywhere else.
- Henry Ward Beecher
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Image of Judith McNaught
Royce Westmoreland stared at him with biting scorn. "I despise hypocrisy, particularly when it is coated with holiness." "May I ask for a specific example?" "Fat priests," Royce replied, "with fat purses, who lecture staving peasants on the dangers of gluttony and the merits of poverty.
- Judith McNaught
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Image of Francois Rabelais
Indeed, said the monk, a mass, a matins, and vespers well rung are half-said.
- Francois Rabelais
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Image of George Bernard Shaw
Hypocrisy ... is only bad when it is improperly used.
- George Bernard Shaw
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Image of Friedrich Nietzsche
Never to talk about oneself is a very refined form of hypocrisy.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Image of Gail Carriger
Alexia abhorred hypocrisy, especially when munitions were involved.
- Gail Carriger
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Image of Josh Billings
I don't never have any trouble in regulating my own conduct, but to keep other folks' straight is what bothers me.
- Josh Billings
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Image of Joseph Addison
Pedantry in learning is like hypocrisy inn religion--a form of knowledge without the power of it.
- Joseph Addison
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Image of Susan Sontag
One of the author's most ancient roles is to call the community to account for its hypocrisies and bad faith.
- Susan Sontag
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Image of Francois Rabelais
An old monkey never makes a pretty face.
- Francois Rabelais
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Image of Rajneesh
My function here is to destroy all hypocrisy in you.
- Rajneesh
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Image of Josh Billings
Most everyone seems willing to be a fool himself, but he can't bear to have anyone else one.
- Josh Billings
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Image of Orson Scott Card
So from then on, he looked at all his choices and said, What would a good person do, and then did it. But he has now learned something very important about human nature. If you spend your whole life pretending to be good, then you are indistinguishable from a good person. Relentless hypocrisy eventually becomes the truth.
- Orson Scott Card
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Image of John le Carre
Those who are not with Mr. Bush are against him. Worse, they are with the enemy. Which is odd, because I'm dead against Bush, but I would love to see Saddam's downfall -- just not on Bush's terms and not by his methods. And not under the banner of such outrageous hypocrisy.
- John le Carre
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Image of Lord Byron
Be hypocritical, be cautious, be not what you seem but always what you see.
- Lord Byron
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Image of Oswald Chambers
The deadliest Pharisaism today is not hypocrisy, but unconscious unreality.
- Oswald Chambers
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Image of Anton Chekhov
Hypocrisy is a revolting, psychopathic state.
- Anton Chekhov
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Image of Luc de Clapiers
If anyone accuses me of contradicting myself, I shall reply; I have been wrong once or more often, however I do not aspire to be always wrong.
- Luc de Clapiers
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Image of Albert Camus
I know [my label], in any case: a double face, a charming Janus, and underneath, the house motto: "Be wary". On my business cards:"Jean-Baptiste Clamence, actor".
- Albert Camus
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Image of John Calvin
Since we are all naturally prone to hypocrisy, any empty semblance of righteousness is quite enough to satisfy us instead of righteousness itself.
- John Calvin
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Image of Edwin Hubbel Chapin
Ostentation is the signal flag of hypocrisy.
- Edwin Hubbel Chapin
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Image of Kenneth E. Boulding
Where there is hypocrisy, there is hope.
- Kenneth E. Boulding
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Image of Thomas Bailey Aldrich
The ring of a false coin is not more recognizable than that of a rhyme setting forth a false sorrow.
- Thomas Bailey Aldrich
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Image of James Dashner
Thats called hypocrisy, you shuck face piece of -!
- James Dashner
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Image of Charles Caleb Colton
It is easier to pretend to be what you are not than to hide what you really are; but he that can accomplish both has little to learn in hypocrisy.
- Charles Caleb Colton
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Image of Bill Cosby
My grandfather said, "When you become senile, you won't know it."
- Bill Cosby
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Image of Mason Cooley
Hypocrisy is the outside of cynicism.
- Mason Cooley
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Image of Marie Corelli
A criminal is twice a criminal when he adds hypocrisy to his crime.
- Marie Corelli
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Image of Carly Fiorina
It is the height of hypocrisy for [Hillary] Clinton to talk about being the first woman president when every single policy she espouses and every single policy of President [Barack] Obama has been demonstrably bad for women.
- Carly Fiorina
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Image of Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is a certain satisfaction in coming down to the lowest ground of politics, for we get rid of cant and hypocrisy.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Image of Mary Baker Eddy
Hypocrisy is fatal to religion.
- Mary Baker Eddy
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Image of Frederick Douglass
I love the religion of Christianity - which cometh from above - which is a pure, peaceable, gentle, easy to be entreated, full of good fruits, and without hypocrisy.
- Frederick Douglass
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Image of George Eliot
I could not without vile hypocrisy and a miserable truckling to the smile of the world ... profess to join in worship which I wholly disapprove.
- George Eliot
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Image of Finley Peter Dunne
It must be a good thing to be good or ivrybody wudden't be pretendin' he was.
- Finley Peter Dunne
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Image of Craig Ferguson
I have that hypocrisy of a parent in that I'm like,'Come on, you've got to toughen up at the same time let me take care of that for you.
- Craig Ferguson
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Image of Criss Jami
Armed neutrality makes it much easier to detect hypocrisy.
- Criss Jami
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Image of Franz Grillparzer
What's the meaning of all the pious clamor, condemning cocks and hens? Those who have no teeth are the greatest meat-haters.
- Franz Grillparzer
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Image of Remy de Gourmont
Modesty is the delicate form of hypocrisy.
- Remy de Gourmont
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Image of Joseph Goebbels
Hypocrisy is the characteristic feature of the dying bourgeois epoch.
- Joseph Goebbels
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Image of Oliver Goldsmith
Thus 'tis with all; their chief and constant care Is to seem everything but what they are.
- Oliver Goldsmith
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Image of Michel Foucault
Modern society is perverse, not in spite of its puritanism or as if from a backlash provoked by its hypocrisy; it is in actual fact, and directly, perverse.
- Michel Foucault
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Image of William Hazlitt
There is some virtue in almost every vice, except hypocrisy; and even that, while it is a mockery of virtue, is at the same time a compliment to it.
- William Hazlitt
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Image of Heinrich Heine
The same fact that Boccaccio offers in support of religion might be adduced in behalf of a republic: "It exists in spite of its ministers.
- Heinrich Heine
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Image of Victor Hugo
How frightened hypocrisy hastens to defend itself.
- Victor Hugo
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