Many of us believe that wrongs aren’t wrong if it’s done by nice people like ourselves.
If it were not for the intellectual snobs who pay, the arts would perish with their starving practitioners – let us thank heaven for hypocrisy.
Aldous Huxley
I don’t never have any trouble in regulating my own conduct, but to keep other folks’ straight is what bothers me.
Josh Billings
Affectation is a greater enemy to the face than smallpox.
English Proverb
The most melancholy thing about human nature, is, that a man may guide others into the path of salvation, without walking in it himself; that he may be a pilot, and yet a castaway.
Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare
One should examine oneself for a very long time before thinking of condemning others.
Moliere
Nothing so needs reforming as other people’s habits.
Mark Twain
It is a good divine that follows his own instructions.
William Shakespeare
Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them.
Samuel Butler
Forbear to judge, for we are sinners all.
William Shakespeare
Because hypocrisy stinks in the nostrils one is likely to rate it as a more powerful agent for destruction than it is.
Rebecca West
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
Most everyone seems willing to be a fool himself, but he can’t bear to have anyone else one.
Josh Billings
God has given you one face, and you make yourself another.
William Shakespeare
The true hypocrite is the one who ceases to perceive his deception, the one who lies with sincerity.
André Gide
How seldom we weigh our neighbors in the same balance as ourselves.
Thomas à Kempis
In the last analysis we must be judged by what we do and not by what we believe. We are as we behave – with a very small margin of credit for our unmanifested vision of how we might behave if we could take the trouble.
Geoffrey L. Rudd
Children lack morality, but they also lack fake morality.
Mignon McLaughlin
When you say that you agree with a thing in principle you mean that you have not the slightest intention of carrying it out in practice.
Otto von Bismarck
They are not all saints who use holy water.
English Proverb
Hypocrite reader – my fellow – my brother!
St Jerome
We are not hypocrites in our sleep.
William Hazlitt
Almost all of us long for peace and freedom; but very few of us have much enthusiasm for the thoughts, feelings, and actions that make for peace and freedom.
Aldous Huxley
The devil loves nothing better than the intolerance of reformers.
James Russell Lowell
It is easier to fight for one’s principles than to live up to them.
Alfred Adler
Whatever you condemn, you have done yourself.
Georg Groddeck
Live truth instead of professing it.
Elbert Hubbard
Those whose conduct gives room for talk are always the first to attack their neighbors.
Jean Baptiste Molière
The injury we do and the one we suffer are not weighed in the same scales.
Aesop
Go put your creed into your deed.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
That which we call sin in others is experiment for us.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Your religion is what you do when the sermon is over.
When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty.
George Bernard Shaw
He does not believe who does not live according to his belief.
Thomas Fuller
Hypocrisy is the homage which vice pays to virtue.
La Rochefoucauld
The essence of immorality is the tendency to make an exception of myself.
Jane Addams
Hypocrite: the man who murdered both his parents… pleaded for mercy on the grounds that he was an orphan.
Abraham Lincoln
Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
H.G. Wells
Every man alone is sincere. At the entrance of a second person, hypocrisy begins. We parry and fend the approach of our fellow-man by compliments, by gossip, by amusements, by affairs. We cover up our thought from him under a hundred folds.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
We are not hypocrites in our sleep.
William Hazlitt
The wolf was sick, he vowed a monk to be – But when he got well, a wolf once more was he.
Walter Bower
All of us are experts at practicing virtue at a distance.
Theodore M. Hesburgh
All reformers, however strict their social conscience, live in houses just as big as they can pay for.
Logan Pearsall Smith
No man is a hypocrite in his pleasures.
Samuel Johnson
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
‘Tis curious that we only believe as deeply as we live.
Ralph Waldo Emerson