Tuesday 30 October 2012

Hypocrite / Hypocrisy - Quotes

A hypocrite is in himself both the archer and the mark, in all actions shooting at his own praise or profit. - Thomas Fuller

Every man alone is sincere. At the entrance of a second person, hypocrisy begins. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Every veil secretly desires to be lifted, except the veil of Hypocrisy. - Richard Garnett

Hypocrisy is folly; for it is much easier, safer, and pleasanter to be the thing which a man seems to appear, than to keep up the appearance of being what he is not. - Lord Burleigh

Hypocrisy is the resin that holds the plywood of society together. - Scott Meyer

It does not follow that a man is a hypocrite because his actions give the lie to his words. If he at one time seems a saint, and at other times a sinner, he possibly is both in reality, as well as in appearance. A person may be fond of vice and of virtue too; and practice one or the other, according to the temptation of the moment. - William Hazlitt

Those are greatly mistaken who think that they can obtain permanent glory by hypocrisy, vain pretence, and disguised words and looks. True glory strikes its roots deep, and spreads them on all sides; everything false disappears quickly, like spring flowers, nor can anything, that is untrue, be of long duration. - Cicero

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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