Throughout our lives, we see in the mirror the same innocent trusting face we have seen there since childhood.
—Mignon McLaughlin (1913–83) American Journalist, Author
Forbear to judge, for we are sinners all.
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616) British Playwright
As no roads are so rough as those that have just been mended, so no sinners are so intolerant as those that have just turned saints.
—Charles Caleb Colton (c.1780–1832) English Clergyman, Aphorist
All humans are hypocrites; the biggest hypocrite of all is the one who claims to detest hypocrisy.
—Lord Byron (George Gordon Byron) (1788–1824) English Romantic Poet
The only vice that cannot be forgiven is hypocrisy. The repentance of a hypocrite is itself hypocrisy.
—William Hazlitt (1778–1830) English Essayist
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 (1757–1827) English Poet, Painter, Printmaker
One ought to look a good deal at oneself before thinking of condemning others.
—Moliere (1622–73) French Playwright
Often a noble face hides filthy ways.
—Euripides (480–406 BCE) Ancient Greek Dramatist
He does not believe who does not live according to his belief.
—Thomas Fuller (1608–61) English Cleric, Historian
Go put your creed into your deed.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–82) American Philosopher
With people with only modest ability, modesty is mere honesty; but with those who possess great talent, it is hypocrisy.
—Arthur Schopenhauer (1788–1860) German Philosopher
It is always easier to fight for one’s principles than to live up to them.
—Alfred Adler (1870–1937) Austrian Psychiatrist
Leave this hypocritical prating about the masses. Masses are rude, lame, unmade, pernicious in their demands and influence, and need not to be flattered, but to be schooled. I wish not to concede anything to them, but to tame, drill, divide, and break them up, and draw individuals out of them.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–82) American Philosopher
Superstition, idolatry and hypocrisy have ample wages, but the truth goes begging.
—Martin Luther (1483–1546) German Protestant Theologian
How many observe Christ’s birthday! How few his precepts!
O! ’tis easier to keep holidays than commandments.
—Benjamin Franklin (1706–90) American Political Leader, Inventor, Diplomat
That which we call sin in others, is experiment for us.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–82) American Philosopher
Every man is a hypocrite.
—Anonymous
With affection beaming in one eye, and calculation shining out of the other.
—Charles Dickens (1812–70) English Novelist
The world consists almost exclusively of people who are one sort and who behave like another sort.
—Zona Gale (1874–1938) American Novelist, Story Writer, Dramatist
A hypocrite is in himself both the archer and the mark, in all actions shooting at his own praise or profit.
—Thomas Fuller (1608–61) English Cleric, Historian
If I’m a cruel satirist at least I’m not a hyprocrite: I never judge what other people do. Neither a politician nor a priest, I never censor what others do. Neither a philospher nor a psychiatrist, I never bother trying to analyze or resolve my fears and neuroses.
—Federico Fellini (1920–93) Italian Filmmaker
Never to talk to ones self is a form of hypocrisy.
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) German Philosopher, Scholar, Writer
Hypocrisy is folly.—It is much easier, safer, and pleasanter to be the thing which a man aims to appear, than to keep up the appearance of what he is not.
—Richard Cecil
Few love to hear the sins they love to act.
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616) British Playwright
We are irritated by rascals, intolerant of fools, and prepared to love the rest. But where are they?
—Mignon McLaughlin (1913–83) American Journalist, Author
With devotion’s visage, and pious action, we do sugar o’er the devil himself.
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616) British Playwright
If it were not for the intellectual snobs who pay, in solid cash, the tribute which Philistinism owes to culture, the arts would perish with their starving practitioners. Let us thank heaven for hypocrisy.
—Aldous Huxley (1894–1963) English Humanist, Pacifist, Satirist, Short Story Writer
There is some virtue in almost every vice except hypocrisy; and even that, while it is a mockery of virtue, is, at the same time, a compliment to it.
—William Hazlitt (1778–1830) English Essayist
As a man loves gold, in that proportion he hates to be imposed upon by counterfeits; and in proportion as a man has regard for that which is above price and better than gold, he abhors that hypocrisy which is but its counterfeit.
—Richard Cecil
Hypocrisy is the homage which vice renders to virtue.
—Francois de La Rochefoucauld (1613–80) French Writer
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