Hypocrisy Quotes

Don't complain about the snow on your neighbor's roof when your own doorstep is unclean.

The person who talks most of his own virtue is often the least virtuous.

Principle of "Christian love": it insists upon being well paid in the end.

That little hypocrites and half-crazed people dare to imagine that on their account the laws of nature are constantly broken; such an enhancement of every kind of selfishness to infinity, to impudence, cannot be branded with sufficient contempt. And yet Christianity owes its triumph to this pitiable flattery of personal vanity.

No power can be maintained when it is only represented by hypocrites.

Never to talk about oneself is a very refined form of hypocrisy.

One must not let oneself be misled: they say 'Judge not!' but they send to Hell everything that stands in their way.

What is wrong with Christianity is that it refrains from doing all those things that Christ commanded should be done.

Genteel women suppose that those things do not really exist about which it is impossible to talk in polite company.

After coming into contact with a religious man I always feel I must wash my hands.

Those who appear the most sanctified are the worst.

What is scandal? Scandal is saying one thing and doing another; it is a double life, a double life. A totally double life: "I am very Catholic, I always go to Mass, I belong to this association and that one; but my life is not Christian, I don't pay my workers a just wage, I exploit people, I am dirty in my business, I launder money ..." A double life.

The corrupt man is the one who sins but does not repent, who sins and pretends to be Christian, and it is this double life that is scandalous. The corrupt man does not know humility, he does not consider himself in need of help, he leads a double life.

Inconsistency on the part of pastors and the faithful between what they say and what they do, between word and manner of life, is undermining the Church's credibility.

In our ecclesiastical region there are priests who don't baptize the children of single mothers because they weren't conceived in the sanctity of marriage. These are today's hypocrites. Those who clericalize the church. Those who separate the people of God from salvation.

Words are one thing - deeds something entirely different. Fine words are a mask to cover shady deeds.

We can't have someone in the Oval Office who doesn't understand the meaning of the word "confidential" or "classified".

I'm going to be working for you. I'm not going to have time to go play golf.

We are witnessing a highly instructive and highly comical spectacle. The bourgeois liberal prostitutes are trying to drape themselves in the toga of revolution.

Bourgeois democracy, although a great historical advance in comparison with medievalism, always remains, and under capitalism is bound to remain, restricted, truncated, false and hypocritical, a paradise for the rich and a snare and deception for the exploited, for the poor.