Patty: I’ll be the good guy. Shermy: I’ll be the bad guy. Patty: What are you going to be, Charlie Brown? Charlie Brown: I’ll be sort of in-between; I’ll be a hypocrite. – Charles M. Schulz Peanuts.
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
In Hypocrite We were becoming like them, hypocrites and liars, adulterers, lazy drones, all talkers, and no workers. – Black Hawk On poisoning influence of whites on his people. Surrender speech at Fort Crawford in Wisconsin, 1832.
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. – Billy Sunday
Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you tithe mint, dill, and cumin, and have neglected the weightier matters of the law: justice and mercy and faith. It is these you ought to have practiced without neglecting the others. – The Bible Matthew 23:23
Sincerity makes the very least person to be of more value than the most talented hypocrite. – Charles Spurgeon
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
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 E. Stevenson
Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You are like whitewashed tombs, which look beautiful on the outside but on the inside are full of dead men’s bones and everything unclean. – The Bible Matthew 23:27
The difference between a saint and a hypocrite is that one lies for his religion, the other by it. – Minna Antrim
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.’ – Juan Williams
I was proud to be a member of the IRA. I am still 40 years on proud that I was a member of the IRA. I am not going to be a hypocrite and sit here and say something different. – Martin McGuinness
A hypocrite despises those whom he deceives, but has no respect for himself. He would make a dupe of himself too, if he could. – William Hazlitt
The only vice that cannot be forgiven is hypocrisy. The repentance of a hypocrite is itself hypocrisy. – William Hazlitt
