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Hypocrite reader my fellow my brother! -- Charles Baudelaire
Hypocrites in the Church? Yes, and in the lodge and at the home. Don't hunt through the Church for a hypocrite. Go home and look in the mirror. Hypocrites? Yes. See that you make the number one less. -- Billy Sunday
The only thing worse than a liar is a liar that's also a hypocrite! -- Tennessee Williams
We ought to see far enough into a hypocrite to see even his sincerity. -- Thomas Fuller
Sincerity makes the very least person to be of more value than the most talented hypocrite. -- Charles Spurgeon
The only vice that cannot be forgiven is hypocrisy. The repentance of a hypocrite is itself hypocrisy. -- William Hazlitt
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
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
I think people are born bisexual and the 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
Hypocrite women, how seldom we speak of our own doubts, while dubiously we mother man in his doubt! -- Denise Levertov
Hypocrite: The man who murdered his parents, and then pleaded for mercy on the grounds that he was an orphan. -- Abraham Lincoln
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
I stopped showering ever since I realized water causes people to drown. I cannot risk being so close to something that can murder me. Do you let killers into your house? Oh, but you let a murderer come out of your own faucet. Hypocrite. -- Thom Yorke
Clean your finger before you point at my spots. -- Benjamin Franklin
Only the hypocrite is really rotten to the core. -- Hannah Arendt
I don't want people to think I'm a hypocrite. -- GG Allin
A hypocrite is a person who - but who isn't? -- Don Marquis
Everybody is a hypocrite. You can't live on this planet without being a hypocrite. -- Paul Watson
The true hypocrite is the one who ceases to perceive his deception, the one who lies with sincerity. -- Andre Gide
For neither man nor angel can discern hypocrisy, the only evil that walks invisible, except to God alone. -- John Milton
With people of limited ability modesty is merely honesty. But with those who possess great talent it is hypocrisy. -- Arthur Schopenhauer
The value of an idea has nothing whatever to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it. -- Oscar Wilde
The difference between a saint and a hypocrite is that one lies for his religion, the other by it. -- Minna Antrim
Man is the only animal that learns by being hypocritical. He pretends to be polite and then, eventually, he becomes polite. -- Jean Kerr
Why lie? I'm not going to be a hypocrite and say the opposite of what I think, like some others do. -- Cristiano Ronaldo
Take care lest you play the hypocrite by spending all your time trying to get others right before you worship God yourself. -- Oswald Chambers
Kids have what I call a built-in hypocrisy antenna that comes up and blocks out what you're saying when you're being a hypocrite. -- Benjamin Carson
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
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
I have been known for some time as a person who speaks the truth and speaks it strongly. I have always called a liar a liar and a hypocrite a hypocrite. -- Cindy Sheehan
China is a government-oriented economy. No one can say he can run his business entirely without government connections. Anybody who says that he or she can do things alone... is a hypocrite. -- Wang Jianlin
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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
I would be a huge hypocrite if I didn't tell you that at one time in my life I thought the way that you made music was you got on a major label and you got famous. -- Neko Case
If we divine a discrepancy between a man's words and his character, the whole impression of him becomes broken and painful; he revolts the imagination by his lack of unity, and even the good in him is hardly accepted. -- Charles Horton Cooley
For me, the key is I always have to be the same person. If someone was to hear me say something on Fox and hear me say something different on NPR, they would say, 'The guy is a hypocrite.' -- Juan Williams
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
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 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
None of us can claim to be fair and square in love - and I'm definitely not a hypocrite! Humans are built to evolve with time. It depends on the nature of the relationship you share with a person. It is there today, tomorrow it may be gone; c'est la vie. -- Randeep Hooda
I can't be a hypocrite as a coach because as a player that's what I wanted. I wanted feedback, I wanted communication from the boss. I showed up for work, you can yell at me if you want, but I want input. So that's the kind of coach I want to be. -- Adam Oates
I would be a liar, a hypocrite, or a fool - and I'm not any of those - to say that I don't write for the reader. I do. But for the reader who hears, who really will work at it, going behind what I seem to say. So I write for myself and that reader who will pay the dues. -- Maya Angelou
We are not hypocrites in our sleep. -- William Hazlitt
Asleep, nobody is a hypocrite -- William Hazlitt
A humanitarian is always a hypocrite. -- George Orwell
Queen Elizabeth, she's the ultimate hypocrite! -- Chris Jericho
A Democrat hypocrite will never get harmed. -- Rush Limbaugh
A Democrat hypocrite will never get harmed. -- Rush Limbaugh
The hypocrite takes good advice as an insult. -- Nouman Ali Khan
No man is a hypocrite in his pleasures. -- Samuel Johnson
Scratch an altruist and watch a hypocrite bleed. -- Michael Ghiselin
Behind every erotic condemnation there's a burning hypocrite. -- Susie Bright
Please everyone without becoming a hypocrite or a coward. -- Swami Vivekananda
The hypocrite recognizes the honest man as his deadly enemy. -- Joseph Sobran
The hypocrite looks for faults; the believer looks for excuses. -- Al-Ghazali
It is better to be an outspoken atheist than a hypocrite. -- George Harrison
It is better to be a well-rounded Christian than a stoic, hypocrite. -- Lisa Askew
It is no fault of Christianity that a hypocrite falls into sin. -- St. Jerome
An honest politician is either a hypocrite - or he is doomed. -- Taylor Caldwell
You can only be called a hypocrite if you judge others first. -- John Gay
Life is a hypocrite if I can't live the way it moves me. -- Christopher Fry
I'm a hypocrite, of course, and I live with that, but I live. -- David Guterson
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If the world despises a hypocrite, what must they think of him in heaven? -- Josh Billings
False praise can please, and calumny affright None but the vicious, and the hypocrite. -- Horace
The good thing about being a hypocrite is that you get to keep your values. -- Alan Alda
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A man who moralizes is a hypocrite, and a woman who does so is invariably plain. -- Oscar Wilde
The only vice that cannot be forgiven is hypocrisy. The repentance of a hypocrite is itself hypocrisy." -- William Hazlitt
The hypocrite who always plays one and the same part ceases at last to be a hypocrite. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Self is the only oil that makes the chariot-wheels of the hypocrite move in all religious concerns. -- Thomas Brooks
Gold is worshipped in all climates, without a single temple, and by all classes, without a single hypocrite. -- Charles Caleb Colton
It is bad to believe you in error. It would be infinitely worse to have known you a hypocrite. -- Elizabeth Gaskell
If I didn't believe in rooting for founders and investing in founders, I'd be a bit of a hypocrite. -- Alexis Ohanian
Everyone knows what a hypocrite is. That's the guy who gripes about the sex, violence and nudity on his VCR. -- Zig Ziglar
The standards you establish for others must reflect the standards you set for yourself. No one will follow a hypocrite. -- Lou Holtz
That's why we had Louis C.K. portray the harder line Communist, to accuse [Dalton] Trumbo of being a hypocrite. -- Jay Roach
He who is passionate and hasty is generally honest. It is your cool, dissembling hypocrite of whom you should beware. -- Johann Kaspar Lavater
How inexpressible is the meanness of being a hypocrite! how horrible is it to be a mischievous and malignant hypocrite. -- Voltaire
It is a terribly easy matter to be a minister of the gospel and a vile hypocrite at the same time. -- Charles Spurgeon
I can't talk politics with my cousin because he's such a hypocrite. He's against the death penalty and he hanged himself. -- Anthony Jeselnik
Whoever is a hypocrite in his religion mocks God, presenting to Him the outside and reserving the inward for his enemy. -- Jeremy Taylor
He is a hypocrite who professes what he does not believe; not he who does not practice all he wishes or approves. -- William Hazlitt
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
Kids have what I call a built-in hypocrisy antenna that comes up and blocks out what you're saying when you're being a hypocrite. -- Benjamin Carson
Show me a Professor of Education, especially a Professor of E-learning, who lectures, and I'll show you a hypocrite who doesn't read the research. -- Donald Clark
Dad was a hypocrite. He could talk about peace and love to the world but he could never show it to his wife and son. -- Julian Lennon
You'd have to be an imbecile or hypocrite to imagine that a professional cyclist who rides 235 days a year can hold himself together without stimulants. -- Jacques Anquetil
I have always considered "Pascal's Wager" a questionable bet to place. Any God worth "believing in" would surely prefer an honest agnostic to a calculating hypocrite. -- Alan Dershowitz
Psychologically speaking, one may say that the hypocrite is too ambitious; not only does he want to appear virtuous before others, he wants to convince himself. -- Hannah Arendt
If every hypocrite in the United States were to break his leg to-day the country could be successfully invaded to-morrow by the warlike hypocrites of Canada. -- Ambrose Bierce
A hypocrite [is the one who] wants to impress others with an external facade of religious piety that he knows is devoid of internal spiritual substance. -- Sam Storms
You cannot play the hypocrite before God; and to obtain pardon you must cease to sin, as well as to be exercised by a spirit of repentance. -- Henry Ward Beecher
The perfection of moral character consists in this, in passing every day as the last, and in being neither violently excited nor torpid nor playing the hypocrite. -- Marcus Aurelius
Think nothing profitable to you which compels you to break a promise, to lose your self respect, to hate any person, to curse, to act the hypocrite. -- Marcus Aurelius
On Sir Joshua Reynolds's observing that the real character of a man was found out by his amusements. Yes, Sir, no man is a hypocrite in his pleasures. -- Samuel Johnson
A man is a hypocrite only when he affects to take a delight in what he does not feel, not because he takes a perverse delight in opposite things. -- William Hazlitt
Without the heart it is no worship. It is a stage play. It is an acting of a part without being that person, really. It is playing the hypocrite. -- Stephen Charnock
The heart of the hypocrite is hid in his breast he masketh his words in the semblance of truth, while the business of his life is only to deceive. -- Akhenaton
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
The old style hypocrite was a person who tried to appear better than he actually was; the new style hypocrite tries to appear worse than he or she is. -- Charles Templeton
There are three signs of a hypocrite: when he speaks he speaks lies, when he makes a promise he breaks it, and when he is trusted he betrays his trust. -- Elijah Muhammad
And what sort of lives do these people, who pose as being moral, lead themselves? My dear fellow, you forget that we are in the native land of the hypocrite. -- Oscar Wilde
On the chessboard, lies and hypocrisy do not survive long. The creative combination lays bare the presumption of a lie; the merciless fact, culminating in the checkmate, contradicts the hypocrite. -- Emanuel Lasker
Casey was a faithful Christian filled with the spirit of the Christ; George is a hypocrite who says he is a Christian but then murders our brothers and sisters indiscriminately. -- Cindy Sheehan
I was not a hypocrite, with one real face and several false ones. I had several faces because I was young and didn't know who I was or wanted to be. -- Milan Kundera
It is not the being seen of men that is wrong, but doing these things for the purpose of being seen of men. The problem with the hypocrite is his motivation. -- Saint Augustine
Even the most elitist director or author who claims that he doesn't care if his works are seen or not, then I have to think that he's either a liar or a hypocrite. -- Michael Haneke
Dalton Trumbo actually was [ a hypocrite], because he liked his wealth, which was against the grain of being a Communist. I put title cards at the head of the film that explains the context. -- Jay Roach
The triumphing of the wicked is short, and the joy of the hypocrite but for a moment. Whereas the groanings of the righteous are but short, and their jubilee and triumph shall be everlasting. -- Ebenezer Erskine
A hypocrite is one who plays two parts consciously for his own ends. When we find fault with other people we may be quite sincere, and yet Jesus says in reality we are frauds. -- Oswald Chambers
I love that man better who swears a stream as long as my arm yet deals justice to his neighbors and mercifully deals his substance to the poor, than the long, smooth faced hypocrite. -- Joseph Smith, Jr.
A cat won't curry favor even if it's in their best interests to do so. A cat can't be a hypocrite. If more preachers were like cats, this would be a more religious country. -- Stephen King
" ... It is not my desire to wound the feelings of any person with whom I am connected in family bonds. I may be a hypocrite," said Mr. Pecksniff, cuttingly, "but I am not a brute." -- Charles Dickens
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
Whoever aims publicly at great things and at length perceives secretly that he is too weak to achieve them, has usually also insufficient strength to renounce his aims publicly, and then inevitably becomes a hypocrite. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
A false friend, an unjust judge, a braggart, hypocrite, and tyrant, sincere in hatred, jealous, vain and revengeful, false in promise, honest in curse, suspicious, ignorant, infamous and hideous-such is the God of the Pentateuch. -- Robert Green Ingersoll

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