Source: Anna karenina (Arcadia Classics)
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Hypocrisy Quotes
“The value of an idea has nothing whatever to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it.”
Source: The Picture of Dorian Gray: The Story of a Fashionable Young Man Who Sells His Soul for Eternal Youth and Beauty (Beloved Books Edition)
“Keep thy smooth words and juggling homilies for those who know thee not.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)
Source: Human Nature and the Social Order
Source: Collected Works
Source: Poor Richard's Almanack
“The hypocrite who always plays one and the same part ceases at last to be a hypocrite.”
Source: Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two
Source: Essays from the Rambler, Adventurer, and Idler
“Superstition, idolatry, and hypocrisy have ample wages, but truth goes a begging.”
Source: The table talk or familiar discourse of Martin Luther, tr. by W. Hazlitt
Source: Life and Writings
“Those who wish to appear learned to fools, appear as fools to the learned.”
Source: The Collected Works of William Hazlitt: Fugitive writings
Source: Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)
“In our democracy officers of the government are the servants, and never the masters of the people.”
Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1941, Volume 10
Source: Seldeniana: with a biographical preface
“In all ages, hypocrites, called priests, have put crowns upon the heads of thieves, called kings.”
Source: The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll
“Religion either makes men wise and virtuous, or it makes them set up false pretenses to both.”
Source: Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)
Source: And Even Now
Source: Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two
“How frightened hypocrisy hastens to defend itself.”
Source: Les Mis??rables
“He is by nature a vegetarian but would never consider giving up meat.”
Source: Every Man in His Humour: A Comedy. Written by Ben Jonson. With Alterations and Additions. As it is Perform'd at the Theatre-Royal in Drury-Lane
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Ovid (Illustrated)
“We are not hypocrites in our sleep.”
Source: Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)
“The qualities we have, make us so ridiculous as those which we affect.”
Source: The Works of George Santayana: Dialogues in limbo. Platonism and the spiritual life. A long way round to Nirvana. The prestige of the infinite. Ultimate religion
“A man must ride alternately on the horses of his private and his public nature.”
Source: Ralph Waldo Emerson
Source: Jefferson on Freedom: Wisdom, Advice, and Hints on Freedom, Democracy, and the American Way
“Where there is no religion, hypocrisy becomes good taste.”
Source: George Bernard Shaw: Collected Articles, Lectures, Essays and Letters: Thoughts and Studies from the Renowned Dramaturge and Author of Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Pygmalion, Arms and The Man, Saint Joan, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion
Source: Ingersoll: Fifty Great Selections, Lectures, Tributes, After Dinner Speeches and Essays, Carefully Selected from the Twelve Volume Dresden Edition of Colonel Ingersoll's Complete Works
“Often a noble face hides filthy ways.”
Source: Euripides II: Andromache, Hecuba, The Suppliant Women, Electra
Source: The Age of Reason, etc
Source: The Grace Awakening: Believing in Grace Is One Thing. Living it Is Another.
“Hypocrisy is not generally a social sin, but a virtue.”
Source: Miss Manners' guide to rearing perfect children
“He who knows others is clever; He who knows himself has discernment.”
Source: Tao Te Ching
“A warrior acts as if he knows what he is doing, when in effect he knows nothing.”
Source: The Wheel Of Time: The Shamans Of Mexico Their Thoughts About Life De
Source: The Age of Reason, etc
“Hypocrisy, the lie, is the true sister of evil, intolerance, and cruelty.”