Quotes about Hypocrisy
you could believe you were living virtuously and also murder people if you were a fanatic.
— Margaret Atwood
Prayer is good; but when used as a substitute for obedience, it is nothing but a blatant hypocrisy... Don't hedge! Time flies! ... Enlist!
— CT Studd
It strikes me as somewhat odd that the people who use God's name most frequently, both in life and in literature, usually don't believe in him.
— Madeleine L'Engle
The main thing between you and God is not so much your sins; it's your damnable good works.
— John Gerstner
Have you noticed that it is usually easier to judge than obey? Religious people are especially good at it. I tried
— Elizabeth Musser
You know you can't be a nice girl inside if you're a dirty slut outside
— George Bernard Shaw
You scandalous woman, will you throw away even your hypocrisy?
— George Bernard Shaw
What right have such men to represent Christianity—as if it were an institution for getting up idiots genteelly?
— George Eliot
There may be coarse hypocrites, who consciously affect beliefs and emotions for the sake of gulling the world, but Bulstrode was not one of them. He was simply a man whose desires had been stronger than his theoretic beliefs, and who had gradually explained the gratification of his desires into satisfactory agreement with those beliefs. If this be hypocrisy, it is a process which shows itself occasionally in us all....
— George Eliot
The character of the publican and sinner is not always practically incompatible with that of the modern Pharisee, for the majority of us scarcely see more distinctly the faultiness of our own conduct than the faultiness of our own arguments, or the dullness of our own jokes.
— George Eliot
As "pride is the beginning of all sin," (Eccl. x, 15) so humility is the foundation of all virtue. Learn to be really humble and not, as the hypocrite, humble merely in appearance.
— St Bonaventure
Do not let your deeds belie your words, lest when you speak in church someone may say to himself, 'Why do you not practice what you preach'
— Saint Jerome