400+ Hypocrisy Quotes! Sayings about Hypocrites & Fake People

Best Hypocrisy Quotes

  • “Hypocrisy: prejudice with a halo.” —Ambrose Bierce
  • “Hypocrites always wanna play innocent. —Lauryn Hill
  • “Often a noble face hides filthy ways.” —Euripides
  • “Hypocrite reader my fellow my brother! —Charles Baudelaire
  • “Jesus condemned no one except hypocrites.” —Kallistos Ware
  • “Actors are the only honest hypocrites.” —William Hazlitt
  • “Queen Elizabeth, she’s the ultimate hypocrite! —Chris Jericho
  • “A humanitarian is always a hypocrite.” —George Orwell
  • “Great Hypocrites are the real atheists.” —Francis Bacon
  • “Whatever you condemn, you have done yourself.” —Georg Groddeck
  • “We are not hypocrites in our sleep.” —William Hazlitt
  • “A Democrat hypocrite will never get harmed.” —Rush Limbaugh
  • “Hypocrites get offended by the truth.” —Jess C. Scott
  • “Hypocrites do the devil’s drudgery in Christ’s livery.” —Matthew McConaughey
  • “No man is a hypocrite in his pleasures.” —Samuel Johnson
  • “People who repress desires often turn, suddenly, into hypocrites.” —Rumi
  • “Scratch an altruist and watch a hypocrite bleed.” —Michael Ghiselin
  • “You talk one way, you live another.” —Seneca the Younger
  • “Behind every erotic condemnation there’s a burning hypocrite.” —Susie Bright
  • “Only the hypocrite is really rotten to the core.” —Hannah Arendt
  • “The hypocrite looks for faults; the believer looks for excuses.” —Al-Ghazali
  • “In some sense we are all hypocrites in transition.” —Erwin McManus
  • “Thanks [Donald] Trump for exposing evangelicals as ‘shameless hypocrites’.” —Bill Maher
  • “Please everyone without becoming a hypocrite or a coward.” —Swami Vivekananda
  • “I don’t want people to think I’m a hypocrite.” —GG Allin
  • Hypocrite – mouth one way, belly ‘nother way.” —Australian Aboriginal Proverb
  • “Force may make hypocrites, but it can never make converts.” —William Penn
  • “Few love to hear the sins they love to act.” —William Shakespeare
  • “Experience is what you have after you’ve forgotten her name.” —Milton Berle
  • “The hypocrite recognizes the honest man as his deadly enemy.” —Joseph Sobran
  • “We’re all slight hypocrites who fall short of our ideals.” —Gillian Jacobs
  • “A hypocrite is a person who – but who isn’t.” —Don Marquis
  • “God has given you one face, and you make yourself another.” —William Shakespeare
  • “Hypocrisy is a fashionable vice, and all fashionable vices pass for virtue.” —Moliere
  • “Better make penitents by gentleness than hypocrites by severity.” —Saint Francis de Sales
  • “All of us are experts at practicing virtue at a distance.” —Theodore Hesburgh
  • “I have a name, I have to take advantage of it.” —Pierre Cardin
  • “There are many who are lip servants but not life servants.” —William Jenkyn
  • “It is better to be an outspoken atheist than a hypocrite.” —George Harrison
  • “No power can be maintained when it is only represented by hypocrites.” —Friedrich Nietzsche
  • “The existence of hypocrites does not prove the non-existence of true believers.” —Charles Spurgeon
  • “An honest politician is either a hypocrite – or he is doomed.” —Taylor Caldwell
  • “It is no fault of Christianity that a hypocrite falls into sin.” —St. Jerome
  • “Keep thy smooth words and juggling homilies for those who know thee not.” —Lord Byron
  • “How difficult it is to avoid having a special standard for oneself.” —C. S. Lewis
  • “The essence of immorality is the tendency to make an exception of myself.” —Jane Addams
  • “I’m a hypocrite, of course, and I live with that, but I live.” —David Guterson
  • “False praise can please, and calumny affright none but the vicious, and the hypocrite.” —Horace
  • “Life is a hypocrite if I can’t live the way it moves me.” —Christopher Fry
  • “We ought to see far enough into a hypocrite to see even his sincerity.” —Thomas Fuller
  • “We’re all living contradictions, trying to survive in a world filled with hypocrites. —Eric Jerome Dickey
  • “Those whose conduct gives room for talk are always the first to attack their neighbors.” —Moliere
  • “In a position to make a difference, politicians and hypocrites they don’t wanna listen.” —Tupac Shakur
  • “I am very proud of my name. My full name is Richard Treat Williams.” —Treat Williams
  • “Jim Bakker spells his name with two k’s because three would be too obvious.” —Bill Maher
  • “If the world despises a hypocrite, what must they think of him in heaven?. —Josh Billings
  • “It is always easier to fight for one’s principles than to live up to them.” —Alfred Adler
  • “The only vice which cannot be forgiven is hypocrisy. The repentance of a hypocrite is itself hypocrisy.” —William Hazlitt
  • “The hypocrite who always plays one and the same part ceases at last to be a hypocrite.” —Friedrich Nietzsche
  • “For what is the hope of the hypocrite, though he hath gained, when God taketh away his soul.” —Bible
  • “There has never been a truly selfless rebel, just hypocrites—conscious hypocrites or unconscious hypocrites, it’s all the same.” —Frank Herbert
  • “The difference between a saint and a hypocrite is that one lies for his religion, the other by it.” —Minna Antrim
  • “Hypocrite: The man who murdered his parents, and then pleaded for mercy on the grounds that he was an orphan.” —Abraham Lincoln
  • “A hypocrite is in himself both the archer and the mark, in all actions shooting at his own praise or profit.” —Thomas Fuller
  • “A hypocrite is more dangerous than a dishonest man. A dishonest man deceives and cheats, and a hypocrite betrays and swindles.” —Dr T.P.Chia
  • Whoever is a hypocrite in his religion mocks God, presenting to Him the outside and reserving the inward for his enemy.” —Jeremy Taylor
  • “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
  • “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
  • “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
  • “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
  • “When you see a man with a great deal of religion displayed in his shop window, you may depend upon it he keeps a very small stock of it within.” —Charles Spurgeon
  • “The hypocrite’s crime is that he bears false witness against himself. What makes it so plausible to assume that hypocrisy is the voice 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.” —Hannah Arendt

Quotes about Hypocrites and Fake People

  • “The height of hypocrisy.” —Edwards
  • “Hypocrisy is the lubricant of society.” —Hull
  • “Politeness is the most acceptable hypocrisy” —Bierce
  • “Great hypocrite are the real atheists.” —Bacon
  • “We are not hypocrites in our sleep.” —Hazlitt
  • “Often a noble face hides filthy ways.” —Euripides
  • “I think his hypocrisy knows no bounds.” —McClellan
  • “Clean your finger before you point at my spots.” —Franklin
  • “At the entrance of a second person, hypocrisy begins.” —Emerson
  • “Hypocrisy is the homage that vice pays to virtue.” —Rochefoucauld
  • “I’ve never been anti-sex or anti-sexuality. I’m just anti-hypocrisy.” —Sioux
  • “Better to be known as a sinner than a hypocrite.” —Proverbs
  • “Hypocrites kick with their hind feet while licking with their tongues.” —Proverb
  • “Never to talk to ones self is a form of hypocrisy.” —Fredrich
  • “Superstition, idolatry, and hypocrisy have ample wages, but truth goes a-begging.” —Luther
  • “With affection beaming in one eye, and calculation shining out of the other.” —Dickens
  • “Their motion is a diversion. I also think it’s the pinnacle of hypocrisy.” —Lanier
  • Politeness, n: The most acceptable hypocrisy.” —Bierce
  • “How clever you are, my dear! You never mean a single word you say.” —Wilde
  • “Making the world safe for hypocrisy.” —Wolfe
  • “Manners are the hypocrisy of a nation.” —Balzac
  • “Keep thy smooth words and juggling homilies for those who know thee not.” —Byron Words
  • “Mathematics allows for no hypocrisy and no vagueness.” —Stendhal Quotes
  • “A man who moralizes is usually a hypocrite, and a woman who moralizes is invariably plain” —Wilde
  • “Every man alone is sincere. At the entrance of a second person, hypocrisy begins.” —Emerson Sincerity
  • “All humans are hypocrites; the biggest hypocrite of all is the one who claims to detest hypocrisy.” —Wastholm
  • “For neither man nor angel can discern hypocrisy, the only evil that walks invisible, except to God alone.” —Milton
  • “Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises, for never intending to go beyond promise, it costs nothing.” —Burke
  • “The value of an idea has nothing whatever to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it.” —Wilde
  • “It’s a seemingly legitimate way of pointing out hypocrisy. Is there really hypocrisy there? Probably, but in more cases, probably not.”—Ritsch
  • “One of South Florida’s most vital natural resources, a relentlessly sane voice in a howling hurricane of hypocrisy, hokum and hype.” —Barry
  • “He is a hypocrite who professes what he does not believe; not he who does not practice all he wishes or approves.” —Hazlitt
  • “The only vice that cannot be forgiven is hypocrisy. The repentance of a hypocrite is itself hypocrisy.” —Hazlitt
  • “When the time comes to settle their accounts, their red robes are corrupt. His Love is not obtained through hypocrisy. Her false coverings bring only ruin.” —Sahib
  • “Hypocrisy in anything whatever may deceive the cleverest and most penetrating man, but the least wide-awake of children recognizes it, and is revolted by it, however ingeniously it may be disguised.” —Tolstoy
  • “I am prepared. I am prepared. I need no on-the-job training. I wasn’t a mayor for a short period of time. I wasn’t a governor for a short period of time.” —McCain
  • “The dwellers of the desert are very hard in unbelief and hypocrisy, and more disposed not to know the limits of what Allah has revealed to His Apostle; and Allah is Knowing, Wise.” —Quran
  • “And the wild regrets, and the bloody sweats, none knew so well as I: for he who lives more lives than one more deaths than one must die.” —Wilde
  • “The hypocrisy factor has encouraged copycat techniques around the world by people who do like the U.S. does and has also weakened the United States as one of the traditional important supporters of human rights.” —Roth
  • “I’m an animal activist. Many people say that I’m a hypocrite, because I eat burgers and stuff like that but I won’t wear fur. But I’m not a hypocrite. I just only wear fake fur.” —Paris Hilton
  • “He (Thomas Paine) saw oppression on every hand; injustice everywhere; hypocrisy at the altar; venality on the bench, tyranny on the throne; and with a splendid courage he espoused the cause of the weak against the strong” —Ingersoll
  • “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.” —Maugham
  • “He was a reflection of what was going on. The poem ‘Howl’ was a howl against the hypocrisy and silence of the generations of the 1950s — of the people who failed to perform their function as real elders.” —Hayden Elderly
  • “[Accusing Vice President Al Gore and Texas Gov. George W. Bush of hypocrisy, Bradley said both men have said they support changing the soft money system.] However, … both reportedly have directed their top fund-raisers to begin raising soft money to the general election.” —Bradley
  • “It is impossible to calculate the moral mischief, if I may so express it, that mental lying has produced in society. When a man has so far corrupted and prostituted the chastity of his mind as to subscribe his professional belief to things he does not believe he has prepared himself for the commission of every other crime.” —Paine
  • “There are two sorts of hypocrites; ones that are deceived with their outward morality and external religion; and the others; those that are deceived with false discoveries and elevation; which often cry down works, and men’s own righteousness, and talk much of free grace; but at the same time make righteousness of their discoveries, and of their humiliation, and exalt themselves to heaven with them.” —Edwards
  • “There are two sorts of hypocrites: one that are deceived with their outward morality and external religion; many of whom are professed Arminians, in the doctrine of justification: and the other, are those that are deceived with false discoveries and elevations; who often cry down works, and men’s own righteousness, and talk 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.” —Edwards

Quotes on Hypocrisy in Politics

  • “I don’t like politics, hypocrites, folks with poodles.” —Alan Jackson
  • “Experience has taught that politics is a game played by conmen and hypocrites.” —Michela Wrong
  • “There are two cardinal sins in politics: one is hypocrisy and the other is flip-flopping.” —Berkovitz
  • “I can’t talk politics with my cousin because he’s such a hypocrite. He’s against the death penalty and he hanged himself.” —Anthony Jeselnik
  • “Politics, under a democracy, reduces itself to a mere struggle for office by flatterers of the proletariat; even when a superior man prevails at that disgusting game he must prevail at the cost of his self-respect. Not many superior men make the attempt. The average great captain of the rabble, when he is not simply a weeper over irremediable wrongs, is a hypocrite so far gone that he is unconscious of his own hypocrisy.. a slimy fellow, offensive to the nose.” —H. L. Mencken
  • “When it comes to partisan politics, everyone is a hypocrite. And all they care about is whether it hurts or helps them … Is it good or bad for the Democrats? Is it good or bad for the Republicans? Is it good or bad for Jews, or good or bad for blacks, or is it good or bad for women? Is it good or bad for men? Is it good or bad for gays? That’s the way people think about issues today. There is very little discussion of enduring principles.” —Alan Dershowitz
  • “Perhaps myself the first, at some expense of popularity, to unfold the true character of Jefferson, it is too late for me to become his apologist. Nor can I have any disposition to do it. I admit that his politics are tinctured with fanaticism, that he is too much in earnest in his democracy, that he has been a mischievous enemy to the principle measures of our past administration, that he is crafty & persevering in his objects, that he is not scrupulous about the means of success, nor very mindful of truth, and that he is a contemptible hypocrite.” —Alexander Hamilton

Hypocrite Friends Quotes

  • “As my friend said that when people say the church is full of hypocrites, he says we always have room for more.” —Shane Claiborne
  • “We were proclaiming ourselves political hypocrites before the world, by thus fostering Human Slavery and proclaiming ourselves, at the same time, the sole friends of Human Freedom.” —Abraham Lincoln
  • “A false friend, an unjust judge, a braggart, hypocrite, and tyrant, sincere in hatred, jealous, vain and revengeful, false in promise, honest in curse, suspicious, ignorant, infamous and hideous-such is the God of the Pentateuch.” —Robert Green Ingersoll
  • “And as to you, Sir, treacherous in private friendship and a hypocrite in public life, the world will be puzzled to decide whether you are an apostate or an impostor; whether you have abandoned good principles, or whether you ever had any.” —Thomas Paine
  • “Listen, here’s my questions to anybody when they talk about comedy. When you are with your friends who don’t judge you, what do you say? And if that’s appropriate to say with your friends, why is it not appropriate anywhere else. Like I hate those people who judge me and are hypocrites.” —Carlos Mencia
  • “I can not but hate the prospect of slavery’s expansion. I hate it because of the monstrous injustice of slavery itself. I hate it because it deprives our republican example of its just influence in the world-enables the enemies of free institutions, with plausibility, to taunt us as hypocrites-causes the real friends of freedom to doubt our sincerity.” —Abraham Lincoln
  • “Marriage is not a natural phenomenon. It is artificial, arbitrary. And when it disappears you cannot do anything to bring it back. You can pretend, but that pretension makes you a hypocrite. And your pretension cannot deceive the woman, because she has known your love and the pretension cannot become the substitute. The only way is to separate – in friendship, because you have given each other so much.” —Rajneesh

Quotes for Hypocrites and Liars

  • “Your hypocrisy insults my intelligence.” —Toba Beta
  • “Armed neutrality makes it much easier to detect hypocrisy.” —Criss Jami
  • “The only thing worse than a liar is a liar that’s also a hypocrite.” —Tennessee Williams
  • “It’s discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.” —Noel Coward
  • “The only vice that cannot be forgiven is hypocrisy. The repentance of a hypocrite is itself hypocrisy.” —William Hazlitt
  • “I care not for a man’s religion whose dog and car are not the better for it.” —Abraham Lincoln
  • “Hypocrisy annoys me, people need to look into mirrors. Let me hold a mirror in front of your face.” —C JoyBell C
  • “I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being good all the time. That would be hypocrisy.” —Oscar Wilde
  • “All philosophers can do is to abstain from helping the aggressors and to enjoin social scientists to tell the truth instead of joining the choir of liars and hypocrites.” —Mario Bunge
  • “I have been known for some time as a person who speaks the truth and speaks it strongly. I have always called a liar a liar and a hypocrite a hypocrite.” —Cindy Sheehan
  • “It is silly to go on pretending that under the skin we are brothers. The truth is more likely that under the skin we are all cannibals, assassins, traitors, liars and hypocrites.” —Henry Miller
  • “Even the most elitist director or author who claims that he doesn’t care if his works are seen or not, then I have to think that he’s either a liar or a hypocrite.” —Michael Haneke
  • “All of us have to be prevaricators, hypocrites, and liars every day of our lives; otherwise the social structure would fall into pieces the first day. We must act in one another’s presence just as we must wear clothes. It is for the best. —O. Henry
  • “Children are contemptuous, haughty, irritable, envious, sneaky, selfish, lazy, flighty, timid, liars and hypocrites, quick to laugh and cry, extreme in expressing joy and sorrow, especially about trifles, they’ll do anything to avoid pain but they enjoy inflicting it: little men already.” —Jean de la Bruyere
  • “Yes, I am a terrorist and I am proud of it. And I support terrorism so long as it was against the United States Government and against Israel, because you are more than terrorists; you are the one who invented terrorism and using it every day. You are butchers, liars and hypocrites.” —Ramzi Yousef
  • “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
  • “Those who say they dislike dogma, or ‘certainty’, tend to be liars, hypocrites, or simply wrong. What they really dislike is the dogma of those they disagree with. A society that was certain, certain beyond all certainty, that putting its citizens in death camps was wrong, would never put people in death camps. Such things are only possible when you’re open to new ideas.” —Jonah Goldberg
  • “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
  • “The difficult thing, the glorious thing, was to be who you really were, even if that person was cruel or dangerous, particularly if cruel and dangerous. There was courage in not distinguishing the animal you happened to be. On the other hand, you had to avoid pretending to be more of an animal than you were: take that path, start exaggerating or faking and you became just another Cubby, just as much of a liar, a hypocrite. —J. K. Rowling

Hypocrite Family Quotes

  • “The best of women are hypocrites. William Makepeace Thackeray. —Deceit
  • Flowers of all hue, and without thorn the rose.” —John Milton
  • The great end of all human industry is the attainment of happiness.” —David Hume
  • “I don’t have a bank account because I don’t know my mother’s maiden name.” —Paula Poundstone
  • “There are no perfect women in the world; only hypocrites exhibit no defects.” —Ninon de L’Enclos
  • “Always it gave me a pang that my children had no lawful claim to a name.” —Harriet Ann Jacobs
  • Be it unto you, even as you believe. In God’s economy, we believe first and then see.” —Joyce Meyer
  • “Hypocrite women, how seldom we speak of our own doubts, while dubiously we mother man in his doubt! —Denise Levertov
  • “The doctor’s name was Sylvia. I told her she’d have a problem with me because Sylvia was my mother’s name.” —Paul Lynde
  • “My father used to sing to me in my mother’s womb. I think I can name about any tune in two beats.” —Yancy Butler
  • Irrespective of their birth labels and belief tables, my blessings to all those who feel themselves to be oppressed, depressed and suppressed from any cause whatsoever.” —Meher Baba
  • “Do not say, ‘It is morning,’ and dismiss it with a name of yesterday. See it for the first time as a newborn child that has no name.” —Rabindranath Tagore
  • “Hypocrisy in anything whatever may deceive the cleverest and most penetrating man, but the least wide-awake of children recognizes it, and is revolted by it, however ingeniously it may be disguised.” —Leo Tolstoy
  • “He had grown up in a country run by politicians who sent the pilots to man the bombers to kill the babies to make the world safer for children to grow up in.” —Ursula K. Le Guin
  • “We have the capacity to make sure that every mother has pre-natal care. Yet, we don’t do it. What is it about America? It says we don’t value children and families. We are hypocrites.” —Marian Wright Edelman
  • I have very strong relationships with my actors when I’m shooting. When you love an actor’s work, you always feel you have to go further, and you make several films together. One film just gives you time to get acquainted.” —Claire Denis
  • “[David] Mamet is another hypocrite. His idea of Black man is a pimp who abuses women, [Edmond], yet his play Oleanna [1994] ends with a White professor slapping an uppity feminist, at least the version I saw at San Francisco’s ACT.” —Ishmael Reed
  • I’m an actress. To be honest, it’s a very awkward business. It’s one of those things where it’s almost like a first date. There’s a way you want to come across. You want to show your goods. The truth starts to slip out sometimes.” —Eva Mendes
  • As one gets older being sad and miserable can become a bit of a habit. To counteract this, she suggests making a point of savoring such things as the tastiness of a piece of fruit, or other small things we might have been prone to overlook during our younger, busier days.” —Rumer Godden
  • “Fifty three per cent children in India face sexual abuse – both boys and girls – but we still feel uncomfortable talking about it. We are still hypocrites when it comes to issues like child abuse, sex or for that matter homosexuality. It is high time that we brought the issue from under the carpet.” —Rahul Bose
  • “Jesus told his followers not to pray in the public square ‘as the hypocrites’ do, but rather ‘enter into thy closet, and when thou has shut thy door, pray to thy Father which is in secret,’ Mr. DeLay not only wants to pray in public, he wants C-SPAN and the nightly news to cover it!” —Ron Barrier
  • “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
  • “I was shamed.My son, Bill, who was 14 come to me and said: “Mother, you’ve been professing that you’re an atheist for a long time now. Well, I don’t believe in God either, but every day in school I’m forced to say prayers, and I feel like a hypocrite. Why should I be compelled to betray my beliefs?” I couldn’t answer him.” —Madalyn Murray O’Hair
  • “What we want is to be real. Let us not appear to be more than we are. Don’t let us put on any cant, any assumed humility, but let us be real; that is the delight of God. God wants us to be real men and women, and if we profess to be what we are not, God knows all about us. God hates sham.” —Dwight L. Moody
  • “You can’t cheat kids. If you cheat them when they’re children they’ll make you pay when they’re sixteen or seventeen by revolting against you or hating you or all those so-called teenage problems. I think that’s finally when they’re old enough to stand up to you and say, ‘What a hypocrite you’ve been all this time. You’ve never given me what I really wanted, which is you.” —John Lennon
  • “Where it is in his own interest, every organism may reasonably be expected to aid his fellows. Where he has no alternative, he submits to the yoke of communal servitude. Yet given a full chance to act in his own interest, nothing but expediency will restrain him from brutalizing, from maiming, from murdering his brother, his mate, his parent, or his child. Scratch an ‘altruist’ and watch a ‘hypocrite’ bleed.” —Michael Ghiselin

Judgdmental Hypocrites Quotes

  • “You can only be called a hypocrite if you judge others first.” —John Gay
  • “We are all hypocrites. We cannot see ourselves or judge ourselves the way we see and judge others.” —Jose Emilio Pacheco
  • “It is galling to see such mendacious hypocrites as Kennedy and Biden at the Senate Judiciary Committee sitting in judgment on distinguished jurists.” —Conrad Black
  • “You may readily judge whether you are a child of God or a hypocrite by seeing in what direction your soul turns in seasons of severe trial. The hypocrite flies to the world and finds a sort of comfort there. But the child of God runs to his Father and expects consolation only from the Lord’s hand.” —Charles Spurgeon
  • “No one has it all figured out, especially not the people who are acting like they do and judging you because of it. Pretending to be something you aren’t because you’re trying to please a bunch of judgmental hypocrites and shitheads is not the way to be happy. Living the life you want to live is. It really is that simple.” —Tucker Max
  • “I know that might sound perverse because I played Julian Assange but, honestly, I don’t think it would be fair for me to judge the man. I realize that makes me a bit of a hypocrite because I was portraying him a certain way, but we were always open to the fact that this was an interpretation, not any kind of exact evidence of who the man was.” —Benedict Cumberbatch
  • “I learned a lot from the stories my uncle, aunts, and grandparents told me: that no one is perfect but most people are good; that people can’t be judged only by their worst or weakest moments; that harsh judgements make hypocrites of us all; that a lot of life is just showing up and hanging on; that laughter is often the best, and sometimes only response to pain.” —William J. Clinton
  • “I am a lover of the cause of Christ and of virtue, chastity, and an upright, steady course of conduct and a holy walk. I despise a hypocrite or a covenant breaker. I judge them not; God shall judge them according to their works. I am a lover even of mine enemies, for an enemy seeketh to destroy openly. I can pray for those who despitefully use and persecute me, but for all I cannot hope.” —Joseph Smith, Jr.

Quotes on Being Hypocrite

  • “Everybody is a hypocrite. You can’t live on this planet without being a hypocrite.” —Paul Watson
  • “Beware of being a religious poseur, trying to live up to a dramatized version of yourself.” —Vance Havner
  • “That’s why we had Louis C.K. portray the harder line Communist, to accuse [Dalton] Trumbo of being a hypocrite.” —Jay Roach
  • “How inexpressible is the meanness of being a hypocrite! how horrible is it to be a mischievous and malignant hypocrite.” —Voltaire
  • “Man is the only animal that learns by being hypocritical. He pretends to be polite and then, eventually, he becomes polite.” —Jean Kerr
  • “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.” —Benjamin Carson
  • “The perfection of moral character consists in this, in passing every day as the last, and in being neither violently excited nor torpid nor playing the hypocrite.” —Marcus Aurelius
  • “And what sort of lives do these people, who pose as being moral, lead themselves? My dear fellow, you forget that we are in the native land of the hypocrite.” —Oscar Wilde
  • “It is not the being seen of men that is wrong, but doing these things for the purpose of being seen of men. The problem with the hypocrite is his motivation.” —Saint Augustine
  • “Dalton Trumbo actually was [ a hypocrite], because he liked his wealth, which was against the grain of being a Communist. I put title cards at the head of the film that explains the context.” —Jay Roach
  • “Without the heart it is no worship; it is a stage play; an acting a part without being that person really which is acted by us: a hypocrite, in the notion of the word, is a stageplayer.” —Stephen Charnock
  • “A story might sell if there’s a headline like ‘Marilyn Manson admits to being Satanic’, all the little hypocrites will go and buy the magazine, read about what evil, weird people we are and will feel better about themselves.” —Marilyn Manson
  • “Everyone is in favor of free speech. Hardly a day passes without its being extolled, but some people’s idea of it is that they are free to say what they like, but if anyone else says anything back, that is an outrage.” —Winston Churchill
  • “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
  • “I stopped showering ever since I realized water causes people to drown. I cannot risk being so close to something that can murder me. Do you let killers into your house? Oh, but you let a murderer come out of your own faucet. Hypocrite.” —Thom Yorke
  • “In theory I am an agnostic, but pending the appearance of rational evidence I must be classed, practically and provisionally, as an atheist. The chance’s of theism’s truth being to my mind so microscopically small, I would be a pedant and a hypocrite to call myself anything else.” —H. P. Lovecraft
  • “We, hijras, are not hypocrites. We live our sexuality openly, being truthful to our souls and our bodies. Science and doctors assigned something else to us when we were born – which they didn’t have the authority to – but we choose what we are and we are very truthful about it.” —Laxmi Narayan Tripathi
  • “When I’m singing a song on stage, I hate hypocrites. If you don’t put yourself in that lyric and emote and be what that lyric says that you are, then you’re just going through the motions and you’re being hypocritical. I just take that same approach with acting. I just take the dialogue and I emote it and become that. I use the same technic.” —Trace Adkins
  • “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.” —Megan Fox
  • “It is not the being seen of men that is wrong, but doing these things for the purpose of being seen of men. The problem with the hypocrite is his motivation. He does not want to be holy; he only wants to seem to be holy. He is more concerned with his reputation for righteousness than about actually becoming righteous. The approbation of men matters more to him than the approval of God.” —Saint Augustine
  • “It is neither just the religious, the spiritual, the power-hungry, the evil, the ignorant, the corrupt, the Christian, the Muslim, the Hindu, the Buddhist, the Jew, nor the atheist that makes a hypocrite, but being a human being. Any man who thinks himself to be free of hypocrisy while committed to cherry-picking others for such, I am confident, the Almighty can prove to him a great deal of his own hypocrisy even beyond his earthly comprehension.” —Criss Jami
  • “As long as we are on firm moral ground, as long as we’re caring about other people, these are legitimate worries. The minute that we start protecting our own interests in the name of these worries and saying, “Oh, we have to make sure that only Ford Motor Company manufactures cars, because we can’t be sure that the cars in other countries are being made quite up to our point of view,” we’re economically off base, and, of course, we’re moral hypocrites, too.” —P. J. O’Rourke
  • “Every time I sit down and write I got to put something conscious in there. It’s like I got a job now. They say that for those that know you got to deal in equality. If you know and you don’t speak on it and don’t apply it, it’s like you’re the worst hypocrite. I feel I got a job to do, being that I study so much and I believe in Allah like I do, I feel like I got to spread the word.” —Rakim
  • “But the most dangerous Hypocrite in a Common-Wealth, is one who leaves the Gospel for the sake of the Law: A Man compounded of Law and Gospel, is able to cheat a whole Country with his Religion, and then destroy them under Colour of Law: And here the Clergy are in great Danger of being deceiv’d, and the People of being deceiv’d by the Clergy, until the Monster arrives to such Power and Wealth, that he is out of the reach of both, and can oppress the People without their own blind Assistance.” —Benjamin Franklin
  • “I am so tired of criticalness being called discernment. Do you want to know true discernment? Paul said “That your love may abound in all discernment.” When you are willing to die for somebody that is when you are actually discerning them. Jesus could call the Pharisees hypocrites and snakes because he went to the cross and died for them. So the next time you are quote “discerning” about somebody ask yourselves the question could you die for them? If you can`t say yes, you’re critical because the love of God is to lay down your life for them, and discernment is rooted only in love. Got it?. —John Bevere

Funny Hypocrite Quotes

  • “Damn, my word of the night.” —Richelle Mead
  • “Entertainment is the greatest socializing force in the world.” —Daniel Beaty
  • “Even so, sometimes I wish I did have a little bit more flair in my language.” —Alex Berenson
  • “You must know that it is by the state of the lavatory that a family is judged.” —Pope John XXIII
  • “These idle disputants overlooked the invariable laws of nature, which have connected peace with innocence, plenty with industry, and safety with valour.” —Edward Gibbon
  • “After reviewing the polygraph charts in private, the polygraph examiner told me that I had passed and that he believed I had nothing to do with the anthrax letters.” —Steven Hatfill
  • “And since when is stealing people’s possessions the call of God? You are all hypocrites who have suddenly come into power, and you don’t know how to handle it.” —Dalia Sofer
  • “The column’s worked out great for me. I’ve gotten a ton of ego satisfaction, had a lot of fun, won a batch of prizes and occasionally done some public good.” —Allan Sloan
  • “Give me knowledge of my end and the measure of my days, so I may know my fraility. My lifetime is no longer than the width of my hand. It is only a moment, compared to yours.” —Deborah Harkness
  • “Deanna’s prime business was mining Lantillium, which was used to line blaster emitter barrels and the cores of warp engines (and to a lesser degree, to line the special coffee cups and jugs used to serve Hot Stuff Blend).” —Christina Engela
  • “Consecration is a process of surrender that never ends. And prayer is the catalyst. It begins with a sinner’s prayer. We confess our sins to the Savior and surrender our lives to His lordship. And along the way, our spiritual journeys are.” —Mark Batterson
  • “She wouldn’t let go of the letter. She took it into the tub with her and squeezed it up in a wet ball, and only let me leave it in the soap dish when she saw that it was coming to pieces like snow.” —F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • “All money for agricultural extension, land grant universities has been toward developing industrial food. Lots of money has been invested toward maximizing yield. If you took even a small amount of that money and put it toward organic research, I don’t have any doubts you could match those yields.” —Michael Pollan
  • “There are certain things that are probably too mean. I don’t particularly like fat jokes. Those kind of bother me. But I guess what I was trying to say is, if I said I would never laugh at this, you could probably dig around and find a situation where I did laugh. I try not to be a hypocrite with that one. I find when there’s a controversy about someone saying something offensive, I usually take the angle of, “Well, I don’t know if that was offensive; it just wasn’t funny.” I generally don’t gasp, “Oh my God!” I think people have been getting raked over the coals lately.” —Todd Barry

Good Quotes about Hypocrisy

  • “The hypocrite takes good advice as an insult.” —Nouman Ali Khan
  • “General good is the plea of the scoundrel, hypocite, flatterer.” —William Blake
  • “He who would do good to another must do it in minute particulars.” —William Blake
  • “There is no principle worth the name if it is not wholly good.” —Mahatma Gandhi
  • “The good thing about being a hypocrite is that you get to keep your values.” —Alan Alda
  • “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
  • “A bunch of money-grubbin’, greenhouse-gasing, seal-clubbing, oil-drilling, Bible-thumping, missile-firing, right-to-life-ing, lethal-injecting hypocrites. People whose idea of a good time is strapping a dead panda to a Lincoln Navigator and running over everybody in the gay parade.” —Richard Jeni
  • “An atheist is but a mad, ridiculous derider of piety, but a hypocrite makes a sober jest of God and religion; he finds it easier to be upon his knees than to rise to a good action.” —Alexander Pope
  • “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
  • “The life of the nation is shot through with a certain falseness and hypocrisy, which are all the more tragic because they are so often subconscious rather than deliberate … The soul of the people is putrescent, and until that becomes regenerate and clean, no good work can be done.” —Fanon
  • “Those old hypocrites. They talk about killing witches but the Good Book’s full of magic. Turning the Nile to blood and parting the Red Sea. What’s that if it’s not good old-fashioned magic? Want a little water into wine? No trouble! How about raising the dead man Lazarus? Just say the word!. —Clive Barker
  • “A rogue does not laugh in the same way that an honest man does; a hypocrite does not shed the tears of a man of good faith. All falsehood is a mask; and however well made the mask may be, with a little attention we may always succeed in distinguishing it from the true face.” —Alexandre Dumas
  • “I think as parents you want to at least try to provide a good example to your kids. So yeah, I feel like a complete hypocrite if I’m telling my son to try new things and not be afraid and I’m shying away from doing a dancing show for Pete’s sake. On some level, you’re at least being a good example for your kids.” —Nick Lachey
  • “By work alone, men may get to where Buddha got largely by meditation or Christ by prayer. Buddha was a working Jnani, Christ was a Bhakta, but the same goal was reached by both of them. Good motives, sincerity, and infinite love can conquer the world. One single soul possessed of these virtues can destroy the dark designs of millions of hypocrites and brutes.” —Swami Vivekananda
  • “They’s a heap more to God’s will than death, disapoint-ment, and like thet. Hit’s God’s will for us to be good and do good, love one another, be forgivin’…” He laughed. “I reckon I ain’t very forgivin’, son. I can forgive a fool, but I ain’t inner-rested in coddlin’ hypocrites. Well anyhow, folks who think God’s will jest has to do with sufferin’ and dyin’, they done missed the whole point.” —Olive Ann Burns
  • “Ask him why there are hypocrites in the world.’ ‘Because it is hard to bear the happiness of others.’ ‘When are we happy?’ ‘When we desire nothing and realize that possession is only momentary, and so are forever playing.’ ‘What is regret?’ ‘To realize that one has spent one’s life worrying about the future.’ ‘What is sorrow?’ ‘To long for the past.’ ‘What is the highest pleasure?’ ‘To hear a good story.” —Vikram Chandra
  • “Tis a barbarous temper, and a sign of a very ill nature, to take delight in shocking any one: and, on the contrary, it is the mark of an amiable and a beneficent temper, to say all the kind things one can, without flattery or playing the hypocrite,–and what never fails of procuring the love and esteem of every one; which, next to doing good to a deserving object who wants it, is one of the greatest pleasures of this life.” —Samuel Richardson

Hypocrites in the Church Quotes

  • “The next time someone tells you, “The Church is full of a bunch of hypocrites.” You can respond, “You don’t even know the half of it.” —Kevin DeYoung
  • “I’m sick of people who’ve never been to church telling me that church is full of hypocrites, and people who’ve never read the Bible telling me that it’s baloney.” —Kristin Chenoweth
  • “When the church encounters hardship, persecution, and suffering, then it is closest to its crucified Lord. Then there are fewer hypocrites and nominal believers among its members, and then the faith of Christians burns most intensely.” —Gene Veith
  • “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.” —Billy Sunday
  • “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.” —William Laud
  • “In our ecclesiastical region there are priests who don’t baptize the children of single mothers because they weren’t conceived in the sanctity of marriage. These are today’s hypocrites. Those who clericalize the church. Those who separate the people of God from salvation.” —Pope Francis
  • “Although I respect the Judeo-Christian ethic, as well as the Eastern philosophies, and of course the teachings of Muhammad, I find that organized religion has corrupted those beliefs to justify countless atrocities throughout the ages. Were I to go to church, I’d be a hypocrite.” —Danny Masterson
  • “If the Church has no the authority to tell its members that they may not engage in homosexual practices, then it has no authority at all. And if we accept the argument of the hypocrites of homosexuality that their sin is not a sin, we have destroyed ourselves.” —Orson Scott Card
  • “The more a church flourishes, the more, I believe, do hypocrites get in, just as you see many a noxious creeping thing come and get in a garden after a shower of rain. The very things that make glad the flowers bring out these noxious things. And so hypocrites get in and steal much of the church’s sap away.” —Charles Spurgeon
  • “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
  • “I have performed my duty to my God, my country, and my family. I have nothing to fear in approaching death. To me it is the mere shadow of God’s protecting wing . . . Here I will rest in quiet and peace beyond the reach of calumny’s poisoned shaft, the influence of envy and jealous enemies, where treason and traitors or State backsliders and hypocrites in church can have no peace.” —Andrew Johnson
  • “Whenever the true message of the cross is abolished, the anger of hypocrites and heretics ceases.. and all things are in peace. This is a sure token that the devil is guarding the entry to the house, and that the PURE doctrine of God’s Word has been taken away. The Church then, is in the BEST state when Satan assaileth it on every sideboth with subtle sleights, and outright violence. And likewise, it is in the WORST state when it is most at peace!. —Martin Luther
  • “They are hypocrites, they think the Church is a cage to keep God in, so he will stay locked up there and not go wandering about the earth during the week, poking his nose into their business, and looking in the depths and darkness and doubleness of their hearts, and their lack of true charity; and they believed they need only be bothered about him on Sundays when they have their best clothes on and their faces straight, and their hands washed and their gloves on, and their stories all prepared.” —Margaret Atwood

Hypocrite Quotes and Sayings

  • “Every man alone is sincere. At the entrance of a second person, hypocrisy begins. —Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • “It’s amazing how much panic one honest man can spread among a multitude of hypocrites.” —Thomas Sowell
  • “Corruption and hypocrisy ought not to be inevitable products of democracy, as they undoubtedly are today.” —Mahatma Gandhi
  • “It is the mark of a hypocrite to be a Christian everywhere except at home.” —Robert Murray M’Cheyne
  • “As you awaken, may your dreams greet you by name, and may you answer, “Yes!”. —Mary Anne Radmacher
  • “A man who moralizes is a hypocrite, and a woman who does so is invariably plain.” —Oscar Wilde
  • “In the world over, the very name of our country is immediately associated with the Parthenon.” —Melina Mercouri
  • “If you cultivate piety as an end and not a means, you will become a hypocrite.” —Austin O’Malley
  • “The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be.” —Socrates
  • “The only vice that cannot be forgiven is hypocrisy. The repentance of a hypocrite is itself hypocrisy.” —William Hazlitt
  • “In all ages, hypocrites, called priests, have put crowns upon the heads of thieves, called kings.” —Robert Green Ingersoll
  • “I would rather be the man who bought the Brooklyn Bridge than the man who sold it.” —Will Rogers
  • “Self is the only oil that makes the chariot-wheels of the hypocrite move in all religious concerns.” —Thomas Brooks
  • “Of all things in the world that stink in the nostrils of men, hypocrisy is the worst.” —Charles Spurgeon
  • “For neither man nor angel can discern hypocrisy, the only evil that walks invisible, except to God alone.” —John Milton
  • “Doctrinal preaching certainly bores the hypocrites; but it is only doctrinal preaching that will save Christ’s sheep.” —J. I. Packer
  • “No human power can force the intrenchments of the human mind: compulsion never persuades; it only makes hypocrites.” —Francois Fenelon
  • “Historical hypocrites have themselves carried out the very human rights abuses that they suddenly decide warrant intervention elsewhere.” —Samantha Power
  • “In any nation, the hypocrites do not become apparent except during times of fitnah (severe tests and hardships).” —Yasmin Mogahed
  • “I would just as soon listen to a gangster lecture on honesty as watch Hollywood portray the Bible.” —Vance Havner
  • “What’s in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet.” —William Shakespeare
  • “I also want to announce that I’m changing my name. I haven’t told anyone. You get the scoop.” —Luther Campbell
  • “In matters of sexuality we are at present, every one of us, ill or well, nothing but hypocrites.” —Sigmund Freud
  • “The value of an idea has nothing whatever to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it.” —Oscar Wilde
  • “One who, professing virtues that he does not respect, secures the advantage of seeming to be what he despises.” —Ambrose Bierce
  • “With people of limited ability modesty is merely honesty. But with those who possess great talent it is hypocrisy.” —Arthur Schopenhauer
  • “It is bad to believe you in error. It would be infinitely worse to have known you a hypocrite.” —Elizabeth Gaskell
  • “Hypocrites weep, and you cannot tell their tears from those of saints; but no bad man ever laughed sweetly yet.” —Ouida
  • “All reformers, however strict their social conscience, live in houses just as big as they can pay for.” —Logan Pearsall Smith
  • “Gold is worshipped in all climates, without a single temple, and by all classes, without a single hypocrite.” —Charles Caleb Colton
  • “If I didn’t believe in rooting for founders and investing in founders, I’d be a bit of a hypocrite.” —Alexis Ohanian
  • “In the name of Hypocrites, doctors have invented the most exquisite form of torture ever known to man: survival.” —Edward Everett Hale
  • “The standards you establish for others must reflect the standards you set for yourself. No one will follow a hypocrite.” —Lou Holtz
  • “Thus one can observe that those who proclaim piety as their goal and purpose usually turn into hypocrites.” —Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • “Everyone knows what a hypocrite is. That’s the guy who gripes about the sex, violence and nudity on his VCR.” —Zig Ziglar
  • “He who is passionate and hasty is generally honest. It is your cool, dissembling hypocrite of whom you should beware.” —Johann Kaspar Lavater
  • “Why lie? I’m not going to be a hypocrite and say the opposite of what I think, like some others do.” —Cristiano Ronaldo
  • “We believe that Almighty God has sent us Adolf Hitler so that he may rid Germany of the hypocrites and Pharisees.” —Robert Ley
  • “It is a terribly easy matter to be a minister of the gospel and a vile hypocrite at the same time.” —Charles Spurgeon
  • “I learned that very often the most intolerant and narrow-minded people are the ones who congratulate themselves on their tolerance and open-mindedness.” —Christopher Hitchens
  • “He is a hypocrite who professes what he does not believe; not he who does not practice all he wishes or approves.” —William Hazlitt
  • “There will be over 3,500 killed in USA today from abortion. No flags lowered, no presidents crying. No media hyperventilating. Normal day.” —Matt Drudge
  • “We have a name for those who try to praise when they have no pleasure in the object. We call them hypocrites.” —John Piper
  • “What hypocrites we seem to be whenever we talk of ourselves! Our words sound so humble, while our hearts are so proud.” —Augustus Hare
  • “Because hypocrisy stinks in the nostrils one is likely to rate it as a more powerful agent for destruction than it is.” —Rebecca West
  • “Take care lest you play the hypocrite by spending all your time trying to get others right before you worship God yourself.” —Oswald Chambers
  • “People who say not to speak ill of the dead are hypocrites, because you can take it ot the bank they’re thinking ill.” —Nora Roberts
  • “Pay attention to minute particulars. Take care of the little ones. Generalization and abstraction are the plea of the hypocrite, scoundrel, and knave.” —William Blake
  • “Show me a Professor of Education, especially a Professor of E-learning, who lectures, and I’ll show you a hypocrite who doesn’t read the research.” —Donald Clark
  • “I’ve tried my best to love you all, all you hypocrites and whores with your eyes on each other and locks on your doors.” —Jethro Tull
  • “There is not one redeeming feature in our superstition of Christianity. It has made one half the world fools, and the other half hypocrites.” —Thomas Jefferson
  • “Whenever the true message of the cross is abolished, the anger of hypocrites and heretics eases and all things seem to be at peace.” —Martin Luther
  • “The main problem with the Democrats is their utter negativity. They’re made up of schumucks and hypocrites. They also have higher levels of immorality.” —Jackie Mason
  • “Islam will be destroyed by the mistakes of scholars, the arguments of the hypocrites who misinterpret the Qur’an to support their views and misleading rulers.” —Umar
  • “Dad was a hypocrite. He could talk about peace and love to the world but he could never show it to his wife and son.” —Julian Lennon
  • “War can be so impersonal yet when we put a name, a face, a place and match it to families, then war is not impersonal.” —Dennis Kucinich
  • “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
  • “The naked female body is treated so weirdly in society. It’s like people are constantly begging to see it, but once they do, someone’s a hoe.” —Lena Horne
  • “We’re all hypocrites. We all say one thing and do another. But why don’t we try to do what we say more than what we don’t?” —John Kasich
  • “Psychologically speaking, one may say that the hypocrite is too ambitious; not only does he want to appear virtuous before others, he wants to convince himself.” —Hannah Arendt
  • “I have always considered “Pascal’s Wager” a questionable bet to place. Any God worth “believing in” would surely prefer an honest agnostic to a calculating hypocrite.” —Alan Dershowitz
  • “Ye Hypocrites, are these your pranks To murder men and gie God thanks Desist for shame, proceed no further God won’t accept your thanks for murder.” —Robert Burns
  • “You’d have to be an imbecile or hypocrite to imagine that a professional cyclist who rides 235 days a year can hold himself together without stimulants.” —Jacques Anquetil
  • “If every hypocrite in the United States were to break his leg to-day the country could be successfully invaded to-morrow by the warlike hypocrites of Canada.” —Ambrose Bierce
  • “A hypocrite [is the one who] wants to impress others with an external facade of religious piety that he knows is devoid of internal spiritual substance.” —Sam Storms
  • “Think nothing profitable to you which compels you to break a promise, to lose your self respect, to hate any person, to curse, to act the hypocrite.” —Marcus Aurelius
  • “As you know, the Inquisition is an admirable and wholly Christian invention to make the pope and the monks more powerful and turn a whole kingdom into hypocrites.” —Voltaire
  • “You cannot play the hypocrite before God; and to obtain pardon you must cease to sin, as well as to be exercised by a spirit of repentance.” —Henry Ward Beecher
  • “The heart of the hypocrite is hid in his breast he masketh his words in the semblance of truth, while the business of his life is only to deceive.” —Akhenaton
  • “It is the nature of all hypocrites and false prophets to create a conscience where there is none, and to cause conscience to disappear where it does exist.” —Martin Luther
  • “On Sir Joshua Reynolds’s observing that the real character of a man was found out by his amusements. Yes, Sir, no man is a hypocrite in his pleasures.” —Samuel Johnson
  • “The hypocrite, certainly, is a secret atheist; for if he did believe there was a God, he durst not be so bold as to deceive Him to His face.” —Thomas Adams
  • “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
  • “Is it no imputation to be arraigned before this House, in which I have sat forty years, and to have my name transmitted to posterity with disgrace and infamy?” —Robert Walpole
  • “The old style hypocrite was a person who tried to appear better than he actually was; the new style hypocrite tries to appear worse than he or she is.” —Charles Templeton
  • “What has been the effect of [religious] coercion? To make one half the world fools, and the other half hypocrites. To support roguery and error all over the earth.” —Thomas Jefferson
  • “There are three signs of a hypocrite: when he speaks he speaks lies, when he makes a promise he breaks it, and when he is trusted he betrays his trust.” —Elijah Muhammad
  • “Of all the cants which are canted in this canting world – though the cant of hypocrites may be the worst – the cant of criticism is the most tormenting!” —Laurence Sterne
  • “On the chessboard, lies and hypocrisy do not survive long. The creative combination lays bare the presumption of a lie; the merciless fact, culminating in the checkmate, contradicts the hypocrite.” —Emanuel Lasker
  • “Common hypocrites pass themselves off as doves; political and literary hypocrites pose as eagles. But don’t be fooled by their eagle-like appearance. These are not eagles, but rats or dogs.” —Anton Chekhov
  • “More are the names of God and infinite are the forms through which He may be approached. In whatever name and form you worship Him, through them you will realise Him.” —Ramakrishna
  • “People are hypocrites. If you ask them what they want to see on TV, they’ll tell you they want better quality programming. And then what do they watch? ‘Gilligan’s Island.'” —Johnny Carson
  • “Stand up to hypocrisy. If you don’t, the hypocrites will teach. Stand up to ignorance, because if you don’t, the ignorant will run free to spread ignorance like a disease.” —Suzy Kassem
  • “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.” —Milan Kundera
  • “We may sing our hymns and psalms, and offer prayers, but they will be an abomination to God, unless we are willing to be thoroughly straightforward in our daily life.” —Dwight L. Moody
  • “We are all hypocrites in transition. I am not who I want to be, but I am on the journey there, and thankfully I am not whom I used to be.” —Erwin McManus
  • “If I were asked to name the chief benefit of the house, I should say: the house shelters day-dreaming, the house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace.” —Gaston Bachelard
  • “It was the kind of talk that made me want to break off a limb and take to whacking her and that bunch of hypocrites across the back of the head.” —Joe R. Lansdale
  • “Here we write well when we expose frauds and hypocrites. We are great at counting warts and blemishes and weighting feet of clay. In expressing love, we belong among the underdeveloped countries.” —Saul Bellow
  • “If I am right, then (religious fundamentalists) will not go to Heaven, because there is no Heaven. If they are right, then they will not go to Heaven, because they are hypocrites.” —Isaac Asimov
  • “We will not adopt the fantastic hypocrisy of modern conservatism which preaches the values of families and communities, while conducting a direct assault on them through reduced wages and conditions and job security.” —Paul Keating
  • “The moment you introduce a despotism in the world of thought, you succeed in making hypocrites – and you get in such a position that you never know what your neighbor thinks.” —Robert Green Ingersoll
  • “A cat won’t curry favor even if it’s in their best interests to do so. A cat can’t be a hypocrite. If more preachers were like cats, this would be a more religious country.” —Stephen King
  • “A hypocrite is one who plays two parts consciously for his own ends. When we find fault with other people we may be quite sincere, and yet Jesus says in reality we are frauds.” —Oswald Chambers
  • “The triumphing of the wicked is short, and the joy of the hypocrite but for a moment. Whereas the groanings of the righteous are but short, and their jubilee and triumph shall be everlasting.” —Ebenezer Erskine
  • “You have deep-seated survival anxieties. And you don’t like bigots, bullies, snobs or hypocrites. Subconsciously there are many people you hate.” “Consciously, sir, consciously,” Yossarian corrected in an effort to help. “I hate them consciously.” —Joseph Heller
  • “I love that man better who swears a stream as long as my arm yet deals justice to his neighbors and mercifully deals his substance to the poor, than the long, smooth faced hypocrite.” —Joseph Smith, Jr.
  • “A man who shows no defect is a fool or a hypocrite, whom we should mistrust. There are defects so bound to fine qualities that they announce them,–defects which it is well not to correct.” —Joseph Joubert
  • “Whoever aims publicly at great things and at length perceives secretly that he is too weak to achieve them, has usually also insufficient strength to renounce his aims publicly, and then inevitably becomes a hypocrite.” —Friedrich Nietzsche
  • “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
  • “The people who whine about Fox News are hypocrites – they say they’re totally tolerant, but when they run into someone who doesn’t share their assumptions, they say, ‘Fox News is evil, and it must be stopped.” —Greg Gutfeld
  • “This is a victory against those who promote terrorism, against hypocrites who tout a supposed war on terror and in reality protect terrorists and jail young men who only acted to oppose terrorism in the United States.” —Ricardo Alarcon
  • “” … It is not my desire to wound the feelings of any person with whom I am connected in family bonds. I may be a hypocrite,” said Mr. Pecksniff, cuttingly, “but I am not a brute.” —Charles Dickens
  • “I’ve retroactively made all that wasted time rotting my brain into research. It makes me a hypocrite when I try to tell my own daughter, “I don’t know, I think we’ve played a little too much Mario.” —Ernest Cline
  • “No hint of genuine charity ameliorates our vision of society, once sentimentalism has been laid side. What passes for cooperation turns out to be a mixture of opportunism and exploitation. Scratch an altruist and watch a hypocrite bleed.” —Michael Ghiselin
  • “A bunch of bong-smoking, America-bashing, flag-burning, yoga-posing, incense-burning, dolphin-saving, salmon-eating hypocrites. These are the sensitive, liberal people who are always yelling about people’s freedom of speech and expression, unless you happen to say something that pisses them off.” —Richard Jeni
  • “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
  • “I was advocating for world peace, but I was waging a violent war against my own body. I was speaking about poverty and starvation, but I was eating more than my fair share. I was a hypocrite.” —Bryant H. McGill
  • “When I was poor and I complained about inequality they said I was bitter. Now I’m rich and I complain about inequality they say I’m a hypocrite. I’m starting to think they just don’t want to talk about inequality.” —Russell Brand
  • “Never value anything as profitable to thyself which shall compel thee to break thy promise, to lose thy self-respect, to hate any man, to suspect, to curse, to act the hypocrite, to desire anything which needs walls and curtains.” —Marcus Aurelius
  • “God’s Word teaches a very hard, disturbing truth. Those who neglect the poor and the oppressed are really not God’s people at all—no matter how frequently they practice their religious rituals nor how orthodox are their creeds and confessions.” —Ronald J. Sider
  • “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.” —W. Somerset Maugham
  • “I wanted to know the name of every stone and flower and insect and bird and beast. I wanted to know where it got its color, where it got its life – but there was no one to tell me.” —George Washington Carver
  • “It is necessary that the prince should know how to color his nature well, and how to be a hypocrite and dissembler. For men are so simple, and yield so much to immediate necessity, that the deceiver will never lack dupes.” —Niccolo Machiavelli
  • “Piety is not an end, but a means: a means of attaining the highest culture by the purest tranquility of soul. Hence it may be observed that those who set up piety as an end and object are mostly hypocrites.” —Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • “Nor turned I ween Adam from his fair spouse, nor Eve the rites Mysterious of connubial love refused: Whatever hypocrites austerely talk Of purity and place and innocence, Defaming as impure what God declares Pure, and commands to some, leaves free to all.” —John Milton
  • “I have examined all of the known superstitions of the world and i do not find our superstitions of Christianity one redeeming feature. They are all founded on fables and mythology. Christianity has made one-half of the world fools and the other half Hypocrites. —Thomas Jefferson
  • “I’m an entertainer; I try to give the public what it wants while I’m on the screen, and I’m completely sincere about it. If I don’t happen to be a laughing boy off the screen, that doesn’t make me a hypocrite or a phony.” —Johnny Carson
  • “I have no faith in much organized religion because I think it’s by a bunch of hypocrites and practiced by a bunch of hypocrites. They don’t mean what they say because all of them are in the slave trade one way or the other.” —John Henrik Clarke
  • “The american dream wasn’t meant for me, cause lady liberty’s a hypocrite she lied to me, promised me freedom,education, and equality never gave me nothing but slavery but now look at how dangerous you made me callin me a mad man because im strong and bold.” —Tupac Shakur
  • “He that puts on a religious habit abroad to gain himself a great name among men, and at the same time lives like an atheist at home, shall at the last be uncovered by God and presented before all the world for a most outrageous hypocrite.” —Thomas Brooks
  • “When we have a Deputy Prime Minister who tells people not to drive cars but has two Jags himself, and where the Minister who tells people not to have two homes turns out to have nine himself – no wonder the public believe politicians are hypocrites.” —William Hague
  • “Better to stay alive,” I said. “At least while there’s a chance to get free.” I thought of the sleeping pills in my bag and wondered just how great a hypocrite I was. It was so easy to advise other people to live with their pain.” —Octavia Butler
  • “I heard Gillian say, with a laugh, At this point, does anyone expect the liberals not to be total hypocrites? She was oblivious to the possibility that perhaps not everyone present shared her views, and I thought, You’re sixteen. How can you already be a Republican?. —Curtis Sittenfeld
  • “When you find me attempting to break into your house to take your plate, under any pretence whatsoever, but most of all under pretence of purity of religion and Christian charity shoot me for a robber and a hypocrite, as in that case I shall certainly be.” —Edmund Burke
  • “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
  • “The argument of socialists, that people really want to share, beyond a reasonable level of charity, is rubbish, though it is espoused by a lot of rich, pious hypocrites who want to share only enough to avoid widespread starvation, mob violence, and government seizure of more of their incomes.” —Conrad Black
  • “That radicalism (of the ’70s) was phony, really, because it was out of guilt. I’d always felt guilty that I made money, so I had to give it away or lose it. I don’t mean I was a hypocrite. When I believe, I believe right down to the roots.” —John Lennon
  • “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
  • “The real test of your Christianity is not how pious you look at the Lord’s table on Sunday, but how you act at the breakfast table at home. If it takes two cups of coffee to make you fit to live with, you had better go to the mourner’s bench.” —Vance Havner
  • “Occident: The part of the world lying west (or east) of the Orient. It is largely inhabited by Christians, a powerful subtribe of the Hypocrites, whose principal industries are murder and cheating, which they are pleased to call war and commerce. These, also, are the principal industries of the Orient.” —Ambrose Bierce
  • “Christian hypocrites who pretend to hate life and love death. He may talk about the soul-what he is after is the girl Love means suffering-those who love drag a chain with them. To her it was not a belief but a certainty Trifling incident gains importance when undue emphasis is laid.” —Georg Ebers
  • “That little hypocrites and half-crazed people dare to imagine that on their account the laws of nature are constantly broken; such an enhancement of every kind of selfishness to infinity, to impudence, cannot be branded with sufficient contempt. And yet Christianity owes its triumph to this pitiable flattery of personal vanity.” —Friedrich Nietzsche
  • “None of us can claim to be fair and square in love – and I’m definitely not a hypocrite! Humans are built to evolve with time. It depends on the nature of the relationship you share with a person. It is there today, tomorrow it may be gone; c’est la vie.” —Randeep Hooda
  • “I can’t be a hypocrite as a coach because as a player that’s what I wanted. I wanted feedback, I wanted communication from the boss. I showed up for work, you can yell at me if you want, but I want input. So that’s the kind of coach I want to be.” —Adam Oates
  • “To meditate for world peace, to pray for a better world, and to work for social justice and environmental protection while continuing to purchase the flesh, milk, and eggs of horribly abused animals exposes a disconnect that is so fundamental that it renders our efforts absurd, hypocritical, and doomed to certain failure.” —Will Tuttle
  • “Hypocrisy is wretched because the hypocrite says with his tongue what is not in his heart. He wrongs his tongue and oppresses his heart. But if the heart is sound, the condition of the tongue follows suit. We are commanded to be upright in speech, which is a gauge of the heart’s state.” —Hamza Yusuf
  • “Four characteristics constitute anyone who possesses them a sheer hypocrite, and anyone who possesses one of them possesses a characteristic of hypocrisy till he abandons it: when he is trusted he betrays his trust, when he talks he lies, when he makes a covenant he acts treacherously and when he quarrels he abuses.” —Elijah Muhammad
  • “Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means, at the point of highest reality. A chastity or honesty or mercy which yields to danger will be chaste or honest or merciful only on conditions. Pilate was merciful till it became risky.” —C. S. Lewis
  • “For the decisions of our will are often so directly opposed to the decisions of our emotions, that, if we are in the habit of considering our emotions as the test, we shall be very apt to feel like hypocrites in declaring those things to be real which our will alone has decided.” —Hannah Whitall Smith
  • “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.” —Hannah Arendt
  • “I was born to fight devils and factions. It is my business to remove obstacles, to cut down thorns, to fill up quagmires and to open and make straight paths. If I must have some failing let me rather speak the truth with too great sincerity than once to act the hypocrite and conceal the truth.” —Martin Luther
  • “The Prophet (peace be upon him) said, ‘The signs of a hypocrite are three: 1. Whenever he speaks, he tells a lie. 2. Whenever he promises, he always breaks it (his promise). 3. If you trust him, he proves to be dishonest (if you keep something as a trust with him, he will not return it).’. —Abu Hurairah
  • “Intellectual freedom is essential — freedom to obtain and distribute information, freedom for open-minded and unfearing debate and freedom from pressure by officialdom and prejudices. Such freedom of thought is the only guarantee against an infection of people by mass myths, which, in the hands of treacherous hypocrites and demagogues, can be transformed into bloody dictatorship.” —Andrei Sakharov
  • “The Germans are called brutal, the Spanish cruel, the Americans superficial, and so on; but we are perfide Albion, the island of hypocrites, the people who have built up an Empire with a Bible in one hand, a pistol in the other, and financial concessions in both pockets. Is the charge true? I think it is.” —E. M. Forster
  • “I commit her to memory. When I’m alone, I feel a strange yearning, the hunger of a man fasting not because he believes but because he’s ashamed. Not the cleansing hunger of the devout, but the feverish hunger of the hypocrite. I let her go every evening only because there’s nothing I can do to stop her.” —Mohsin Hamid
  • “We still dislike hypocrites. It’s a very American characteristic. We still like people who have ideas and who are willing to stand up for what they believe in. We’re very forgiving of failures and very willing to give people a second and third chance if they mean to do better and are sorry for what they’ve done.” —David McCullough
  • “Had he been willing to live a hypocrite, he would have been respectable, he at least could have died surrounded by other hypocrites, and at his death there would have been an imposing funeral, with miles of carriages, filled with hypocrites, and above his hypocritical dust there would have been a hypocritical monument covered with lies.” —Robert Green Ingersoll
  • “If wine disappeared from human production, I believe there would be, in the health and intellect of the planet, a void, a deficiency far more terrible than all the excesses and deviations for which wine is made responsible. Is it not reasonable to suggest that people that never drink wine, whether naive or doctrinaire, are fools or hypocrites….?. —Charles Baudelaire
  • “Hypocrisy itself does great honor, or rather justice, to religion, and tacitly acknowledges it to be an ornament to human nature. The hypocrite would not be at so much pains to put on the appearance of virtue, if he did not know it was the most proper and effectual means to gain the love and esteem of mankind.” —Joseph Addison
  • “Never imitate. The mind is an imitator, because imitation is very easy. To be someone is very difficult. To become someone is very easy – all that you need is to be a hypocrite, which is not much of a problem. Deep down you remain the same, but on the surface you go on painting yourself according to some image.” —Rajneesh
  • “Death did not first strike Adam, the first sinful man, nor Cain, the first hypocrite, but Abel, the innocent and righteous. The first soul that met with death, overcame death; the first soul that parted from earth went to heaven. Death argues not displeasure, because he whom God loved best dies first, and the murderer is punished with living.” —Joseph Hall
  • “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
  • “Whether a Commonwealth suffers more by hypocritical pretenders to religion or by the openly profane? The most dangerous hypocrite in a Commonwealth is one who leaves the gospel for the sake of the law. A man compounded of law and gospel is able to cheat a whole country with his religion and then destroy them under color of law.” —Benjamin Franklin
  • “Look at me!’ I screeched. ‘Look at me, Amadeus von Linden, you sadistic hypocrite, and watch this time! You’re not questioning me now, this isn’t your work, I’m not an enemy agent spewing wireless code! I’m just a minging Scots slag screaming insults at your daughter! So enjoy yourself and watch! Think of Isolde! Think of Isolde and watch!. —Elizabeth Wein
  • “Hypocrisy means deliberately pretending. None of us lives up to his ideals; none of us is all that he would like to be or all that he could be in Christ. But that is not hypocrisy. Falling short of our ideals is not hypocrisy. Pretending we have reached our ideals when we have not – that is hypocrisy.” —Warren W. Wiersbe
  • “It’s obsequious little nicety-nice girls like me who allow assholes to run the world: Miss Harlot O’Harlots, billionaire phony tree huggers, hypocrite drug-snorting, weed-puffing peace activists who fund the mass-murdering drug cartels and perpetuate crushing poverty in dirt-poor banana republics. It’s my petty fear of personal rejection that allows so many true evils to exist. My cowardice enables atrocities.” —Chuck Palahniuk
  • “Show me a cultural relativist at 30,000 feet and I’ll show you a hypocrite … If you are flying to an international congress of anthropologists or literary critics, the reason you will probably get there – the reason you don’t plummet into a ploughed field – is that a lot of Western scientifically trained engineers have got their sum right.” —Richard Dawkins
  • “Who are the lunatics? The ones who see horror in the heart of their fellow humans and search for peace at any price? Or the ones who pretend they don’t see what’s going on around them? The world belongs either to lunatics or hypocrites. There are no other races on this earth. You must choose which one to belong to.” —Carlos Ruiz Zafon
  • “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…. [Instead] reason and persuasion are the only practicable instruments. To make way for these, free enquiry must be indulged; and how can we wish others to indulge it while we refuse it ourselves?. —Thomas Jefferson
  • “There is an honesty which is but decided selfishness in disguise. The person who will not refrain from expressing his or her sentiments and manifesting his or her feelings, however unfit the time, however inappropriate the place, however painful this expression may be, lays claim, forsooth, to our approbation as an honest person, and sneers at those of finer sensibilities as hypocrites.” —Arthur Helps
  • “On those nights, the words were for me alone. They came up unbidden from my heart. They spilled over my tongue and spilled out my mouth. And because of them, I, who was nothing and nobody, was a prince of Denmark, a maid of Verona, a queen of Egypt. I was a sour misanthrope, a beetling hypocrite, a conjurer’s daughter, a mad and murderous king.” —Jennifer Donnelly
  • “The believer speaks little and does a lot, whereas the hypocrite speaks a lot and does little. When the believer speaks, it is with wisdom, when he is silent, it is in deep thought, when he sees, he takes lessons, and when he acts, it is a cure. If this is the way you are, then you are in the constant worship [of your Lord.]. —Abu Nu`aym
  • “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
  • “After all, acknowledging unfairness then calls decent people forth to correct those injustices. And since most persons are at their core, decent folks, the need to ignore evidence of injustice is powerful: To do otherwise would force whites to either push for change (which they would perceive as against their interests) or live consciously as hypocrites who speak of freedom and opportunity but perpetuate a system of inequality.” —Tim Wise
  • “Now, because men of our contemporary age are caught up in the ascetic view of a life-denying religious system, but in spite of this cannot deny the primal laws of nature, a distorted morality had to be developed, which spreads hypocritical appearances over hidden actions. This has brought to a head all those outward forms of modern life, whose vacuousness and corruption are now beginning to disgust us.” —Guido von List
  • “It doesn’t really even bother me about popularity. I live a spiritual life. I don’t live a carnal life. If I was seeking to be big, I would do anything. I would go out there and do something crazy, be flashy, be a showboat, but that’s not within my persona. If I did something like that, I would be a hypocrite because that’s not part of who I am.” —Anthony Macias
  • “The biggest hypocrites on gun control are those who live in upscale developments with armed security guards – and who want to keep other people from having guns to defend themselves. But what about lower-income people living in high-crime, inner city neighborhoods? Should such people be kept unarmed and helpless, so that limousine liberals can ‘make a statement’ by adding to the thousands of gun laws already on the books?. —Thomas Sowell
  • “The Christian god can easily be pictured as virtually the same god as the many ancient gods of past civilizations. The Christian god is a three headed monster cruel vengeful and capricious. If one wishes to know more of this raging three headed beast like god one only needs to look at the caliber of people who say they serve him. They are always of two classes fools and hypocrites.” —Thomas Jefferson
  • “Virtually all political discourse in the days of my youth was devoted to the ferreting out of hypocrisy… Because they were hypocrites, the Victorians were despised in the late twentieth century. Many of the persons who held such opinions were, of course, guilty of the most nefarious conduct themselves, and yet saw no paradox in holding such views because they were not hypocrites themselves-they took no moral stances and lived by none.” —Neal Stephenson
  • “Heaven or Hell? You make it seem as if that’s an easy choice to make. Sitting there in heaven watching others burn, and I can’t do anything to help? That in itself would be hell for me. I’d be up there fighting god and his angels to let me out, so that I can come down and at least try to help. I am a moral person. Heaven is for uncaring Hypocrites.” —Deborah Pryce
  • “The conflict will always beyond ur strength.The enemy always pushes us beyond our personal, inbred, preset limits concerning how far we’ll go for God:”Here’s how far I’m going to love,this is how many times I’ll turn the other cheek.”The test kills the limits of our humanity,til we’re like Christ in everything We’re left with a choice:Become Christlike or gradually shrivel into superficial hypocrites: angry people who have stopped walking with God, who blame others for our bitterness.” —Francis Frangipane
  • “I really embrace my hypocrisy. I embrace that because after I do that, I can move on; I can try and go away from that. You gotta understand what your problem is and know what it is, and then you can change it. You can’t just be like, “I’m a hypocrite, and to not be a hypocrite, I’m just going to not do hypocritical things.” You can’t do that; you don’t even understand what a hypocrite is.” —Lupe Fiasco
  • “Either all things proceed from one intelligent source and come together as in one body, and the part ought not to find fault with what is done for the benefit of the whole; or there are only atoms, and nothing else than a mixture and dispersion. Why, then, art thou disturbed? Say to this ruling faculty, Art thou dead, art thou corrupted, art thou playing the hypocrite, art thou become a beast, dost thou herd and feed with the rest?. —Marcus Aurelius
  • “Daughter of Time, the hypocrite Days, Muffled and dumb like barefoot dervishes, and marching single in an endless file, Bring diadems and fagots in their hands; to each they offer gifts after his will, Bread, kingdom, stars, and sky that holds them all; I, in my pleached garden watched the pomp forgot my morning wishes, hastily took a few herbs and apples, and the Day turned and departed silent. I too late under her solemn fillet saw the scorn.” —Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • “When the Kerner Commission told white America what black America has always known, that prejudice and hatred built the nation’s slums, maintains them and profits by them, white America could not believe it. But it is true. Unless we start to fight and defeat the enemies in our own country, poverty and racism, and make our talk of equality and opportunity ring true, we are exposed in the eyes of the world as hypocrites when we talk about making people free – (Chapter 9).” —Shirley Chisholm
  • “The brain may take advice, but not the heart, and love having no geography, knows no boundaries: weight and sink it deep, no matter, it will rise and find the surface: and why not? Any love is natural and beautiful that lies within a person’s nature; only hypocrites would hold a man responsible for what he loves, emotional illiterates and those of righteous envy, who, in their agitated concern, mistake so frequently the arrow pointing to heaven for the one that leads to hell.” —Truman Capote
  • “The agnostic has a very curious notion of religion. He is convinced that a man who says ‘I believe in God’ should at once become perfect; if this does not happen, then the believer must be a fraud and a hypocrite. He thinks that adherence to a religion is the end of the road, whereas it is in fact only the beginning of a very long and sometimes very rough road. He looks for consistency in religious people, however aware he may be of inconsistencies in himself. —Charles le Gai Eaton
  • “Those who worship gold in a world so corrupt as this we live in have at least one thing to plead in defense of their idolatry–the power of their idol. It is true that, like other idols, it can neither move, see, hear, feel, nor understand; but, unlike other idols, it has often communicated all these powers to those who had them not, and annihilated them in those who had. This idol can boast of two peculiarities; it is worshipped in all climates, without a single temple, and by all classes, without a single hypocrite.” —Charles Caleb Colton
  • “I think technology is fantastic but maybe it’s just developed too fast for us in real world applications. By the same token the fact that a guy can get a laptop and make music that can be put straight into a TV show I suppose shows a disparity when you’re somebody who has gone to college and learned all this stuff. So if you apply that to the entire world than certainly computers have changed everything. But I’d be a hypocrite if I complained about it because it’s given me a career. I’m part of the problem is what I’m saying!. —Clint Mansell
  • “I think it’s really easy for people to point out hypocrisy in people’s lives. It’s like yeah, I get on planes a lot, and I drank from a plastic water bottle today – you know what I’m saying? A lot of people would just be like, “Oh, you’re a hypocrite. You live in an ecovillage for a month, and then you fly around the world to talk about a movie.” Don’t think that I don’t think about those things! Don’t think that that’s not, like, a quandary in my life. It can be a pretty intense ethical dilemma. I think it’s about figuring out, you know, navigating life.” —Ellen Page