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Why lie? I'm not going to be a hypocrite and say the opposite of what I think, like some others do.
Sep 10, 2025
Sincerity makes the very least person to be of more value than the most talented hypocrite.
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.
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.
I don't want people to think I'm a hypocrite.
We are all hypocrites. We cannot see ourselves or judge ourselves the way we see and judge others.
We ought to see far enough into a hypocrite to see even his sincerity.
Those whose conduct gives room for talk are always the first to attack their neighbors.
For neither man nor angel can discern hypocrisy, the only evil that walks invisible, except to God alone.
All reformers, however strict their social conscience, live in houses just as big as they can pay for.
Few love to hear the sins they love to act.
With people of limited ability modesty is merely honesty. But with those who possess great talent it is hypocrisy.
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.'
Clean your finger before you point at my spots.
The essence of immorality is the tendency to make an exception of myself.
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.
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.
Hypocrites do the devil's drudgery in Christ's livery.
No habit or quality is more easily acquired than hypocrisy, nor any thing sooner learned than to deny the sentiments of our hearts and the principle we act from: but the seeds of every passion are innate to us, and nobody comes into the world without them.
Corruption and hypocrisy ought not to be inevitable products of democracy, as they undoubtedly are today.
Nothing causes more consternation in a group of hypocrits than one honest man.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The difference between a saint and a hypocrite is that one lies for his religion, the other by it.
A hypocrite is the kind of politician who would cut down a redwood tree, then mount the stump and make a speech for conservation.
If it were not for the intellectual snobs who pay - in solid cash - the arts would perish with their starving practitioners. Let us thank heaven for hypocrisy.
If Satan ever laughs, it must be at hypocrites; they are the greatest dupes he has.
Every man alone is sincere. At the entrance of a second person, hypocrisy begins
Man is the only animal that learns by being hypocritical. He pretends to be polite and then, eventually, he becomes polite.
The only vice that cannot be forgiven is hypocrisy. The repentance of a hypocrite is itself hypocrisy.
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.
The only thing worse than a liar is a liar that's also a hypocrite!
How inexpressible is the meanness of being a hypocrite! how horrible is it to be a mischievous and malignant hypocrite.
Only the hypocrite is really rotten to the core.
The true hypocrite is the one who ceases to perceive his deception, the one who lies with sincerity.
A hypocrite despises those whom he deceives, but has no respect for himself. He would make a dupe of himself too, if he could.
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.
As witnesses not of our intentions but of our conduct, we can be true or false, and the hypocrite's crime is that he bears false witness against himself. What makes it so plausible to assume that hypocrisy is the vice of vices is that integrity can indeed exist under the cover of all other vices except this one. 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.
It is always easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them.
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.
The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be.
He who would do good to another must do it in minute particulars.
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.
General good is the plea of the scoundrel, hypocite, flatterer.
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.
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.
God has given you one face, and you make yourself another.
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