Hypocrite is someone who says they have particular moral beliefs but behaves in way that shows these are not sincere. Inspirational hypocrite quotes will brighten up your day and make you feel ready to take on anything.
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Famous Hypocrite Quotes
Hypocrisy is the audacity to preach integrity from a den of corruption. Wes Fesler
What’s wrong with our children? Adults telling children to be honest while lying and cheating. Adults telling children to not be violent while marketing and glorifying violence I believe that adult hypocrisy is the biggest problem children face in America. Marian Wright Edelman
Hypocrisy is a fashionable vice, and all fashionable vices pass for virtue. Moliere
Hypocrites are those who apply to others the standards that they refuse to accept for themselves. Noam Chomsky
No task is more difficult than systematic hypocrisy. Eddie George
Sincerity makes the very least person to be of more value than the most talented hypocrite. Charles Spurgeon
People are very inclined to set moral standards for others. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Clean your finger before you point at my spots. Benjamin Franklin
Hypocrisy is the outward acknowledgment of inward shame. Norm Macdonald
The world is full of fools and faint hearts; and yet everyone has courage enough to bear the misfortunes, and wisdom enough to manage the affairs, of his neighbor. Benjamin Franklin
It is always easier to fight for one’s principles than to live up to them. Alfred Adler
Half of the misery in the world comes from trying to look, instead of trying to be, what one is not. George MacDonald
It is easy for men to talk one thing and think another. Publilius Syrus
Live truth instead of professing it. Elbert Hubbard
Superstition, idolatry, and hypocrisy have ample wages, but truth goes a begging. Martin Luther
We are all sinners. But may the Lord not let us be hypocrites. Hypocrites don’t know the meaning of forgiveness, joy and the love of God. Pope Francis
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
Those who make use of devotion as a means and end generally are hypocrites. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
In England the only homage which they pay to Virtue is hypocrisy. Lord Byron
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
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
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
Truth without love is brutality, and love without truth is hypocrisy. Warren W. Wiersbe
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
When men think and believe in one set of symbols and act in ways which are contrary to their professed and conscious ideas, confusion and insincerity are bound to result. John Dewey
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
I feel like a big faker because I’ve been putting my life back together, and nobody knows. Stephen Chbosky
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
Hypocrisy is a permission slip to our morals, telling them to take a holiday. F. H. Buckley
The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be. Socrates
There are moments when one has to choose between living one’s own life, fully, entirely, completely or dragging out some false, shallow, degrading existence that the world in its hypocrisy demands. Oscar Wilde
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
Time passes and you begin to see, people for who they really are and not who they pretend to be. Scarlet Koop
As witnesses not of our intentions but of our conduct, we can be true or false, and the hypocrite’s crime is that he bears false witness against himself. 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
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. Stand up for Truth! If you don’t, there is no Truth to your existence. If you don’t stand up for all that is right, then understand that you are part of the reason that there is so much wrong in the world. Suzy Kassem
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
There is so much hypocrisy in sports. Dennis Rodman
He who is passionate and hasty is generally honest. It is your cool, dissembling hypocrite of whom you should beware. Johann Kaspar Lavater
All bad precedents begin as justifiable measures. Julius Caesar
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
Those who make use of devotion as a means and end generally are hypocrites. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
In the name of Hypocrites, doctors have invented the most exquisite form of torture ever known to man: survival. Edward Everett Hale
There are three things in the world that deserve no mercy: hypocrisy, fraud, and tyranny. Frederick William Robertson
One who, professing virtues that he does not respect, secures the advantage of seeming to be what he despises. Ambrose Bierce
Hypocrisy is oftenest clothed in the garb of religion. Hosea Ballou
Man is the only animal that learns by being hypocritical. He pretends to be polite and then, eventually, he becomes polite. Jean Kerr
The difference between my darkness and your darkness is that I can look at my own badness in the face and accept its existence while you are busy covering your mirror with a white linen sheet. C. JoyBell C.
I think people are born bisexual and they 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
Sometimes it’s not the person who changes, it’s the mask that falls off. Mhaj Porras
For neither man nor angel can discern Hypocrisy, the only evil that walks Invisible, except to God alone. John Milton
Hypocrisy is like this: she has a face of burnished gold and an eye of pleasing crystal, but on the inside of her heart all is of lead, flat and useless. John Gower
The only vice that cannot be forgiven is hypocrisy. The repentance of a hypocrite is itself hypocrisy. William Hazlitt
You cannot expect to live a positive life if you hang with negative people. Joel Osteen
We are all hypocrites. We cannot see ourselves or judge ourselves the way we see and judge others. Jose Emilio Pacheco
The only vice that cannot be forgiven is hypocrisy. The repentance of a hypocrite is itself hypocrisy. William Hazlitt
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
No man for any considerable period can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true. Nathaniel Hawthorne
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
Hypocrisy is nothing, in fact, but a horrible hopefulness. Victor Hugo
With people of limited ability modesty is merely honesty. But with those who possess great talent, it is hypocrisy. Arthur Schopenhauer
Liberty is the right of every man to be honest, to think and to speak without hypocrisy. Jose Marti
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
Hypocrisy: prejudice with a halo. Ambrose Bierce
The difference between a saint and a hypocrite is that one lies for his religion, the other by it. Minna Antrim
