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| One should examine oneself for a very long time before thinking of condemning others. ~ Moliere |
| Every man alone is sincere. At the entrance of a second person, hypocrisy begins. We parry and fend the approach of our fellow-man by compliments, by gossip, by amusements, by affairs. We cover up our thought from him under a hundred folds. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Friendship," |
| He does not believe who does not live according to his belief. ~ Thomas Fuller |
| Whatever you condemn, you have done yourself. ~ Georg Groddeck, |
| Many of us believe that wrongs aren’t wrong if it’s done by nice people like ourselves. ~ Author Unknown |
| Your religion is what you do when the sermon is over. ~ Quoted in |
| Forbear to judge, for we are sinners all. ~ William Shakespeare, |
| As no roads are so rough as those that have just been mended, so no sinners are so intolerant as those that have just turned saints. ~ Charles Caleb Colton |
| All reformers, however strict their social conscience, live in houses just as big as they can pay for. ~ Logan Pearsall Smith |
| The essence of immorality is the tendency to make an exception of myself. ~ Jane Addams |
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| That which we call sin in others is experiment for us. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Experience," |
| All of us are experts at practicing virtue at a distance. ~ Theodore M. Hesburgh |
| Go put your creed into your deed. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| The most melancholy thing about human nature, is, that a man may guide others into the path of salvation, without walking in it himself; that he may be a pilot, and yet a castaway. ~ Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, |
| Politeness, n. The most acceptable hypocrisy. ~ Ambrose Bierce, |
| Hypocrite: the man who murdered both his parents… pleaded for mercy on the grounds that he was an orphan. ~ Abraham Lincoln |
| ‘Tis curious that we only believe as deeply as we live. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| I don’t never have any trouble in regulating my own conduct, but to keep other folks’ straight is what bothers me. ~ Josh Billings |
| If it were not for the intellectual snobs who pay, the arts would perish with their starving practitioners – let us thank heaven for hypocrisy. ~ Aldous Huxley |
| Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo. ~ H.G. Wells |
| Affectation is a greater enemy to the face than smallpox. ~ English Proverb |
| The injury we do and the one we suffer are not weighed in the same scales. ~ Aesop, |
| 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. ~ Hannah Arendt, |
| Because hypocrisy stinks in the nostrils one is likely to rate it as a more powerful agent for destruction than it is. ~ Rebecca West, |
| Nothing so needs reforming as other people’s habits. ~ Mark Twain, |
| In the last analysis we must be judged by what we do and not by what we believe. We are as we behave – with a very small margin of credit for our unmanifested vision of how we might behave if we could take the trouble. ~ Geoffrey L. Rudd, |
| 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. ~ Benjamin Franklin |
| Most everyone seems willing to be a fool himself, but he can’t bear to have anyone else one. ~ Josh Billings |
| They are not all saints who use holy water. ~ English Proverb |
| The true hypocrite is the one who ceases to perceive his deception, the one who lies with sincerity. ~ André Gide |