Quotes about Hypocrisy
The meanest, most contemptible kind of praise is that which first speaks well of a man, and then qualifies it with a But.
— Henry Ward Beecher
I cannot understand how a man can appear in print claiming to disbelieve everything that he presupposes when he puts on the surplice. I feel it is a form of prostitution.
— CS Lewis
Being from a Christian family doesn't make you a Christian any more than sitting in a garage —
— Terri Blackstock
He who demands mercy and shows none burns the bridges over which he himself must later pass.
— Thomas Adams
In fact, hypocrisy in the church probably repels people more than any other factor. Someone once said the biggest problem with Christianity is Christians!)
— Norman Geisler
Keep up appearances whatever you do.
— Charles Dickens
There were two classes of charitable people: one, the people who did a little and made a great deal of noise; the other, the people who did a great deal and made no noise at all.
— Charles Dickens
Mrs Joe was a very clean housekeeper, but had an exquisite art of making her clenliness more umcomfortable and unacceptable than dirt itself. Cleanliness is next to godliness, and some people do the same by their religion.
— Charles Dickens
But Rosa soon made the discovery that Miss Twinkleton didn't read fairly. She cut the love-scenes, interpolated passages in praise of female celibacy, and was guilty of other glaring pious frauds.
— Charles Dickens
Howsever they come, they didn't ought to come, and they come from the father of lies, and work round to the same.
— Charles Dickens
Men who are thoroughly false and hollow, seldom try to hide those vices from themselves; and yet in very act of avowing them, they lay claim to the virtues they feign most to despise
— Charles Dickens
This is the even-handed dealing of the world!" he said. "There is nothing on which it is so hard as poverty; and there is nothing it professes to condemn with such severity as the pursuit of wealth!
— Charles Dickens