65 Hypocrite Quotes On Success In Life
These hypocrite quotes will inspire you. Hypocrite, a person who puts on a false appearance of virtue or religion.
A collection of motivating, happy, and encouraging hypocrite quotes, hypocrite sayings, and hypocrite proverbs.
Best Hypocrite Quotes
- “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
- “The only thing worse than a liar is a liar that’s also a hypocrite!” ~ Tennessee Williams
- “Hypocrites are those who apply to others the standards that they refuse to accept for themselves.” ~ Noam Chomsky
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“The true hypocrite is the one who ceases to perceive his deception, the one who lies with sincerity.” ~ Andre Gide
- “Sincerity makes the very least person to be of more value than the most talented hypocrite.” ~ Charles Spurgeon
- “Clean your finger before you point at my spots.” ~ Benjamin Franklin
- “Hypocrites get offended by the truth.” ~ Jess C Scott
- “If Satan ever laughs, it must be at hypocrites; they are the greatest dupes he has.” ~ Charles Caleb Colton
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“Jesus condemned no one except hypocrites.” ~ Kallistos Ware
- “Crocodiles are easy. They try to kill and eat you. People are harder. Sometimes they pretend to be your friend first.” ~ Steve Irwin , Hypocrite quotes friends
- “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
- “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
- “Half of the misery in the world comes from trying to look, instead of trying to be, what one is not.” ~ George MacDonald
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“Politics and hypocrites is turning us all into lunatics.” ~ Marvin Gaye
- “Live truth instead of professing it.” ~ Elbert Hubbard
- “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
- “Those who make use of devotion as a means and end generally are hypocrites.” ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- “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
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“God has given you one face, and you make yourself another.” ~ William Shakespeare
- “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
- “Hypocrisy is a fashionable vice, and all fashionable vices pass for virtue.” ~ Moliere
- “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
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“Keep thy smooth words and juggling homilies for those who know thee not.” ~ Lord Byron
- “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
- “It is always easier to fight for one’s principles than to live up to them.” ~ Alfred Adler
- “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
- “The hypocrite looks for faults; the believer looks for excuses.” ~ Al-Ghazali
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“Only the hypocrite is really rotten to the core.” ~ Hannah Arendt
- “The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be.” ~ Socrates
- “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
- “No power can be maintained when it is only represented by hypocrites.” ~ Friedrich Nietzsche
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“Hypocrisy: prejudice with a halo.” ~ Ambrose Bierce
- “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
- “Corruption and hypocrisy ought not to be inevitable products of democracy, as they undoubtedly are today.” ~ Mahatma Gandhi
- “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
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“Every man alone is sincere. At the entrance of a second person, hypocrisy begins” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
- “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
- “He who is passionate and hasty is generally honest. It is your cool, dissembling hypocrite of whom you should beware.” ~ Johann Kaspar Lavater
- “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
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“Why lie? I’m not going to be a hypocrite and say the opposite of what I think as some others do.” ~ Cristiano Ronaldo
- “In the name of Hypocrites, doctors have invented the most exquisite form of torture ever known to man: survival.” ~ Edward Everett Hale
- “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
- “Man is the only animal that learns by being hypocritical. He pretends to be polite and then, eventually, he becomes polite.” ~ Jean Kerr
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“General Good is the plea of the scoundrel, hypocrite, flatterer.” ~ William Blake
- “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 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
- “For neither man nor angel can discern Hypocrisy, the only evil that walks Invisible, except to God alone.” ~ John Milton
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“Often a noble face hides filthy ways.” ~ Euripides
- “The only vice that cannot be forgiven is hypocrisy. The repentance of a hypocrite is itself hypocrisy.” ~ William Hazlitt
- “We ought to see far enough into a hypocrite to see even his sincerity.” ~ Thomas Fuller
- “The hypocrite who always plays one and the same part ceases at last to be a hypocrite.” ~ Friedrich Nietzsche
- “We are all hypocrites. We cannot see ourselves or judge ourselves the way we see and judge others.” ~ Jose Emilio Pacheco
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“Hypocrite reader my fellow my brother!” ~ Charles Baudelaire
- “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
- “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
- “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 , Hypocrite quotes life
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“Hypocrites do the devil’s drudgery in Christ’s livery.” ~ Matthew McConaughey
- “With people of limited ability modesty is merely honesty. But with those who possess great talent, it is hypocrisy.” ~ Arthur Schopenhauer
- “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
- “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
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“Whatever you condemn, you have done yourself.” ~ Georg Groddeck
- “The difference between a saint and a hypocrite is that one lies for his religion, the other by it.” ~ Minna Antrim
- “We are not hypocrites in our sleep.” ~ William Hazlitt
- “No man is a hypocrite in his pleasures.” ~ Samuel Johnson
