80 Powerful Hypocrite Quotes About the Dangers of Pretending
Everyone is at some point or another prone to hypocrisy, and may even find keeping up with one’s own moral standards difficult. However, falling victim to it and living this way are two completely different things. Hypocrites can be found everywhere in social, professional and even personal circles. It isn’t always easy to catch on to them from the beginning, unless you are aware of how real and truthful you want your life to be despite the consequences. Many famous celebrities have had their own eye opening experiences.
Many people learn the hard way, with that knife in the back you didn’t see coming or praises you like hearing since they feed your ego, until it’s too late. Handling truthful relationships and accepting yourself and people is a step towards a more sincere way of life. This will morally strengthen and bring a new sense of value to all interactions. Read on to find a great variety of quotes by singers, activists and presidents who have expressed words of wisdom that will inspire and motive you, friends and loved ones to seek a life where no hypocrites are allowed.
Table of Contents
- Hypocrite Quotes To Keep You Alert
- Hypocrite Two-faced People Quotes
- Quotes About People That Act Hypocritically
- Hypocrite Friends Quotes
- Quotes About Being a Hypocrite Yourself
Hypocrite Quotes To Keep You Alert
- Hypocrisy is a tribute that vice pays to virtue. Francois Duc De La Rochefoucauld
- The truth has become an insult. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
- Politeness, n: The most acceptable hypocrisy. Ambrose Bierce
- Everyone loves a witch hunt as long as it’s someone else’s witch being hunted. Walter Kirn
- For the powerful, crimes are those that others commit. Noam Chomsky
- Hypocrisy is the resin that holds the plywood of society together. Scott Meyer
- The splinter in your eye is the best magnifying-glass available. Theodor W. Adorno
- We ought to see far enough into a hypocrite to see even his sincerity. Thomas Fuller
- Hypocrisy begins at home. Janneker Lawrence Daniel
- Priests have never been great men for the truth. Bernard Cornwell
- Hypocrite reader my fellow my brother! Charles Baudelaire
- The state calls its own violence law, but that of the individual, crime. Max Stirner
- Sincerity makes the very least person to be of more value than the most talented hypocrite. Charles Spurgeon
- When a man gives his opinion, he’s a man. When a woman gives her opinion, she’s a bitch. Bette Davis
- The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons. Ralph Waldo Emerson
- You mean people don’t like to see hypocrisy in their leadership? Shocking. Marissa Meyer
- The only thing worse than a liar is a liar that’s also a hypocrite! Tennessee Williams
- I won’t insult your intelligence by suggesting that you really believe what you just said. William F. Buckley Jr.
- 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. Hannah Arendt
- Some people’s blameless lives are to blame for a good deal. Dorothy L. Sayers
- Hypocrisy/hi pakrise/ noun: The moment you tell someone it is not important to be right, in order to look right to everyone else. Shannon L. Alder
- The difference between a saint and a hypocrite is that one lies for his religion, the other by it. Minna Antrim
- Hypocrisy has its own elegant symmetry. Julie Metz
- The lamb misused breeds public strife
And yet forgives the butcher’s knife.
William Blake - The only vice that cannot be forgiven is hypocrisy. The repentance of a hypocrite is itself hypocrisy. William Hazlitt
- The hypocrisy of a hypocrite holds such a poison and sword that affect and effect more effectively than the enmity of an enemy. Ehsan Sehgal
- Your hypocrisy insults my intelligence. Toba Beta
- The deadliest Pharisaism today is not hypocrisy, but unconscious unreality. Oswald Chambers
- There is a huge difference between living a Christian life and living a religious life. Sunday Adelaja
- Where there is fear, there is no love. Where there is cruelty, there can be no humanity. And where there is hypocrisy, there shall never be divinity. Anthon St. Maarten
- Or as my dad always says: it only becomes a social problem when the working man joins in. Ben Aaronovitch
Hypocrite Two-faced People Quotes
- A hypocrite is a person who – but who isn’t? Don Marquis
- He wears a mask, and his face grows to fit it. George Orwell
- Everyone have two faces, but mine are twins. Felix Caussan
- I really hate two faced people, it’s hard to decide which face to slap first. Yong Junhyung
- You’re just like a penny… two-faced and worthless. Unknown
- Look twice at a two-faced man. Chief Joseph
- A dog is only a dog, Man has many faces. Tarif Naaz
- People who are two faced, usually forget which mask they are wearing at some point in their life. Anthony T.Hincks
- I’m annoyed by those who love mankind but are discourteous to people. John Howard Griffin
- Go put your creed into your deed,Nor speak with double tongue. Ralph Waldo Emerson
- I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being good all the time. That would be hypocrisy. Oscar Wilde
- A hypocrite is the kind of politician who would cut down a redwood tree, then mount the stump and make a speech for conservation. Adlai Stevenson I
- Why lie? I’m not going to be a hypocrite and say the opposite of what I think, like some others do. Cristiano Ronaldo
Quotes About People That Act Hypocritically
- One thing you can’t hide – is when you’re crippled inside. John Lennon
- Everybody is a hypocrite. You can’t live on this planet without being a hypocrite. Paul Watson
- Hypocrisy annoys me, people need to look into mirrors. Let me hold a mirror in front of your face. C. JoyBell C.
- If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one? Abraham Lincoln
- My blasphemy will delight God more than your hypocrisy. Tomichan Matheikal
- Where I live, people hate each other with a lovely smile. Anoir Ou-Chad
- People who shout joy from the rooftops are often the saddest of all. Milan Kundera
- Tolerance level of each one changes as per situation – Is it Hypocrisy ? Adil Adam Memon
- It’s discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit. Noël Coward
- Most of us get turned on at night by the very things that we’ll demonstrate against during the day. Esther Perel
- Some folks who prescribe tolerance should take their own medicine. Frank Sonnenberg
- The question must be asked: does anyone ever really mean what they say? Marty Rubin
- All of us humans are hypocrite, owing to the multiplicity of our psyche. Anurag Shrivastava
- Humankind is blessed with a strength of peeping into own instinct and to perceive how hypocrite they are. Meghna Sodha
- People that have trust issues only need to look in the mirror. There they will meet the one person that will betray them the most. Shannon L. Alder
Hypocrite Friends Quotes
- Truth without love is brutality, and love without truth is hypocrisy. Warren Wiersbe
- We are some people’s friends only when they are with us. Mokokoma Mokhonoana
- Over a small misunderstanding God will expose how people really feel about you. Gugu Mofokeng
- The only wolves we got to fear are the ones wear manskin. George R.R. Martin
- Pretend to be poor in reality and you’ll notice a decrease in your friends list and request. Michael Bassey Johnson
- Always sleep with one eye open. Never take anything for granted. Your best friends might just be your enemies. Sara Shepherd
- If you want to be my friend, I prefer honesty to fake praise. I was never one to run with the wolves. Christina Strigas
- I know you are busy pulling the wool over my eyes but you may want to address the inconsistencies in your persona first. Et Imperatrix Noctem
- Without wearing any mask we are conscious of, we have a special face for each friend. Oliver Wendell Holmes
- Someone who smiles too much with you can sometime frown too much with you at your back. Michael Bassey Johnson
- This is what happens. You tell your friends your most personal secrets, and they use them against you. Sophie Kinsella
Quotes About Being a Hypocrite Yourself
- It is better to be an outspoken atheist than a hypocrite. George Harrison
- There are two sides to every story — especially if you’re a hypocrite. Frank Sonnenberg
- No man knows to be nice, without being a hypocrite. Teufel Damon
- Circumstance makes hypocrites of us all. Carmine Savastano
- Nature did not make me a bigot, a hypocrite, a cheater or a liar. The onus is all on me. Marty Rubin
- I think I wear my hypocrisy on my sleeve. I would never say I’m not a complete hypocrite. Bo Burnham
- And what sort of lives do these people, who pose as being moral, lead themselves? My dear fellow, you forget that we are in the native land of the hypocrite. Oscar Wilde
- The hand that pockets the corrupt coin places it in the collection plate seeking absolution. Stewart Stafford
- 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. Ben Carson
- The self-righteous scream judgments against others to hide the noise of skeletons dancing in their own closets. John Mark Green
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