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It is better sometimes not to follow great reformers of abuses beyond the threshold of their homes.
I knew then that the Christian church thrives on hypocrisy, and that man's carnal nature will out...
The ring of a false coin is not more recognizable than that of a rhyme setting forth a false sorrow.
We are irritated by rascals, intolerant of fools, and prepared to love the rest. But where are they?
To be without guile is to be free of deceit, cunning, hypocrisy, and dishonesty in thought or action.
The only vice that cannot be forgiven is hypocrisy. The repentance of a hypocrite is itself hypocrisy.
A pious woman's neighbor, a philanthropist's child, a liberal's servant--these three have a hard life.
All reformers, however strict their social conscience, live in houses just as big as they can pay for.
The greatest superstition now entertained by public men is that hypocrisy is the royal road to success.
College football today is one of the last great strongholds of genuine old-fashioned American hypocrisy.
That character in conversation which commonly passes for agreeable is made up of civility and falsehood.
The zeal which begins with hypocrisy must conclude in treachery at first it deceives, at last it betrays
It's just hypocrisy on hip-hop's part to cry racial profiling when your race is on TV acting like fools.
Corruption and hypocrisy ought not to be inevitable products of democracy, as they undoubtedly are today.
In the NBA, it's wins and losses. You don't have to deal with some of the hypocrisy of college athletics.
What people call the spirit of the times is mostly their own spirit in which the times mirror themselves.
In politics, love is a stranger, and when it intrudes upon it nothing is being achieved except hypocrisy.
The wages that are being paid in the Premier League are very tempting. It would be hypocrisy to deny that.
Avoid the base hypocrisy of condemning in one man what you pass over in silence when committed by another.
It takes a profound hypocrisy to try to reconcile for others things that you can't reconcile for yourself.
I am alone; all drowns in the Pharisees' hypocrisy. To live your life is not as simple as to cross a field.
If you think that you can sin, and then by cries avert the consequences of sin, you insult God's character.
The idea of democracy has been stripped of it moral imperatives and come to denote hollowness and hypocrisy.
One of the author's most ancient roles is to call the community to account for its hypocrisies and bad faith.
I wish I had a man and not a dishrag printed over with big words like 'constitutional rights' and 'progress'!
The Lives of Great Men are more oft' at variance with their profess'd Phillosophies than consistent with 'em.
If the Coastal Republic had believed in the existence of virtue, it could at least have aspired to hypocrisy.
To send a child to rot in the prison of Cuba for the alleged sake of his own well-being is criminal hypocrisy.
Throughout our lives, we see in the mirror the same innocent trusting face we have seen there since childhood.
Saying is one thing and doing is another; we are to consider the sermon and the preacher distinctly and apart.
A nation, as a society, forms a moral person, and every member of it is personally responsible for his society.
Moliere exaggerates common vices of mankind: lust, greed, misanthropy, hypocrisy. We all have a touch of these.
Comedy actually works best when you're living in an OK world, and you are pointing out the hypocrisy in apathy.
If privacy ends where hypocrisy begins, Kitty Kelley's steamy expose is a contribution to contemporary history.
Sincerity that thinks it is the sole possessor of the truth is a deadlier sin than hypocrisy, which knows better.
Sincerity is the prime requisite in every approach to the God who ... hates all hypocrisy, falsehood, and deceit.
Our fear of hypocrisy is forcing us to live in a world where gluttons are fine, so long as they champion gluttony.
I don't never have any trouble in regulating my own conduct, but to keep other folks' straight is what bothers me.
With people of limited ability modesty is merely honesty. But with those who possess great talent it is hypocrisy.
God! how is it that we fail to recognize that the mask of pleasure, stripped of all hypocrisy, is that of anguish?
I don't lie and cheat, but I don't always avoid actions that would be lying and cheating if someone else did them.
Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises, for never intending to go beyond promise, it costs nothing.
The political spirit is the great force in throwing the love of truth and accurate reasoning into a secondary place.
In the mouths of many men soft words are like roses that soldiers put into the muzzles of their muskets on holidays.
Snobbishness, like hypocrisy, is a check upon behaviour whose value from a social point of view has been underrated.
I hate a woman who offers herself because she ought to do so, and cold and dry thinks of her sewing when making love.
It has been the political career of this man to begin with hypocrisy, proceed with arrogance, and finish with contempt
There is a certain satisfaction in coming down to the lowest ground of politics, for we get rid of cant and hypocrisy.
Because hypocrisy stinks in the nostrils one is likely to rate it as a more powerful agent for destruction than it is.
Whoever is a hypocrite in his religion mocks God, presenting to Him the outside and reserving the inward for his enemy.