Mordred and Agravaine thought Arthur hypocritical—as all decent men must be, if you assume that decency can’t exist.

The fury of confession, at first,then the fury of clarity:It was from you, Death, that such hypocriticalobscure feeling was born! And nowlet them accuse me of every passion,let them bad-mouth me, let them say I’m...

[Women] complain about many clerks who attribute all sorts of faults to them and who compose works about them in rhyme, prose, and verse, criticizing their conduct in a variety of different ways. They then...

A hypocrite is the kind of politician who would cut down a redwood tree, then mount the stump and make a speech for conservation.

Yes, I laugh at all mankind, and the imposition that they dare to practice when they talk of hearts. I laugh at human passions and human cares, vice and virtue, religion and impiety; they are...

Just as some people may conceal their own sinfulness thus seeming better than the norm, others expose their own sinfulness thus seeming worse than the norm.

He wears a mask, and his face grows to fit it.

The man or the woman in whom resides greater virtue is the higher; neither the loftiness nor the lowliness of a person lies in the body according to the sex, but in the perfection of...

Wisdom of the Ages: “Ferguson Riots” They were ready to tear America to shreds over their grief-right until the TV cameras left to cover the football games.

You desire the end but close your eyes to the means. You want the garden to be beautiful, provided that the smell of manure is kept well away from your fastidious nose.

I don’t like compliments and I don’t see why a man should think he is pleasing a woman enormously when he says to her a whole heap of things that he doesn’t mean.

If she knew me as I really am she would despise me, and certainly not aid or abet my evil designs. To veil their vices from the sight of the good is the only resource...

The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons.

There is nothing worse then being surrounded by a bunch of people telling you to do what is right, when they can’t define that definition, without a lot of hatred and judgment behind it.

Politeness is the most acceptable hypocrisy

[S]he stood for some moments gazing at the sisters, with affection beaming in one eye, and calculation shining out of the other.

The rule seemed to be that a great woman must either die unwed … or find a still greater man to marry her. … The great man, on the other hand, could marry where he...

What we fail to realize is we often become like Pharisees in our ruthless attempts to identify Pharisees (and impostors). While indeed some people use the old laws of religious pride to tear down men...

Great hypocrite are the real atheists

Hypocrisy is a value that I think has been embraced by the Republican Party. We get lectured by people all day long about moral values by people who have their own moral shortcomings.

They were so absorbed in their plotting that they did not hear Boule de Suif return. But the Comte’s whispered ‘shh!’ made them all look up. There she was. A sudden silence fell, and at...

Hypocrisy a homage is true, That vice pays to virtue, Be man – himself so true, That no false does he brew.

I am so afraid that strangers with think me good! and there is a degree of hypocrisy in appearing much better than one is.” – Hannah More

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.

Those who are most sensitive about “politically incorrect” terminology are not the average black ghetto-dweller, Asian immigrant, abused woman or disabled person, but a minority of activists, many of whom do not even belong to...

Not one of the learned gentlemen who pretend that the Mosaic laws are filled with justice and intelligence, would live, for a moment, in any country where such laws were in force.

They do say that socialism is the ideal philosophy-just as long as you have capitalists to pay for it.

As for the third Official Reason: exposing Western Hypocrisy – how much more exposed can they be? Which decent human being on earth harbors any illusions about it? These are people whose histories are spongy...

With a leer of mingled sweetness and slyness; with one eye on the future, one on the bride, and an arch expression in her face, partly spiritual, partly spirituous, and wholly professional and peculiar to...

Toa msaada katika jamii iliyosaidia kukulea ulipokuwa mdogo.

When everyone believes they are the life coaches, who are the players?

The truth has become an insult.

Between saying and doing, many a pair of shoes is worn out.

Your Moment of Truth” than people owning their truth, their part in a situation.

Atheism is a lack of belief…what about the powers of darkness, and that of light, will you trace both to nothing? Then you must have created yourself.

Show me what you’ve written,” I said, although I wanted desperately to avoid looking at it.

Your hypocrisy insults my intelligence.

Hypocrisy is the resin that holds the plywood of society together.

If you want to be an honorable man, then be what you pretend to be.

When a man gives his opinion, he’s a man. When a woman gives her opinion, she’s a bitch.

Nixon is the kind of politician who would cut down a redwood and then mount the stump to make a speech for conservation.

There is nothing Christ dislikes more than for His people to make a showpiece of Him and not to use Him.

Knowing the truth is so minuscule compared to having the nerve to say it…and even more to live it.

Maturity is when you’re able to say, ‘It’s not just them. It’s me.

* *Do remember that dishonesty and cowardice always have to be paid for.*Don’t imagine that for years on end you can make yourself the boot-licking propagandist of the Soviet régime, or any other régime, and...

[I]f you seek in every way to minimise my firm beliefs by your anti-feminist attacks, please recall that a small dagger or knife point can pierce a great, bulging sack and that a small fly...

What?’ He cried, darting at him a look of fury: ‘Dare you still implore the Eternal’s mercy? Would you feign penitence, and again act an Hypocrite’s part? Villain, resign your hopes of pardon. Thus I...

Either you look back and deal with your hypocrisy, or you dismiss it.

Once, I remember, we came upon a man-of-war anchored off the coast. There wasn’t even a shed there, and she was shelling the bush. It appears the French had one of their wars going on...

The lamb misused breeds public strifeAnd yet forgives the butcher’s knife.