Frederick Douglass Quotes

The repentance of a hypocrite is itself hypocrisy.

Those who appear the most sanctified are the worst.

Hypocrites always wanna play innocent

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 is the outside of cynicism.

Hypocrisy is the tribute that vice pays to virtue.

I completely scorn the falsifying, the sanctimonious, the cheap and the shoddy.

We can love an honest rogue, but what is more offensive than a false saint?

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.

Hypocrisy is the universal solvent of social relations.

The English are a nation of consummate cant.

The liar was the hottest to defend his veracity, the coward his courage, the ill-bred his gentlemanliness, and the cad his honor

Cant is the twin sister of hypocrisy.

The man who is ostentatious of his modesty is twin to the statue that wears a fig-leaf.

Hollywood is full of guys who say one thing, and then do another.

I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being good all the time. That would be hypocrisy.

One who, professing virtues that he does not respect, secures the advantage of seeming to be what he despises.

Freedom, Truth, Honour — you could rattle off a hundred such words and behind every one of them would gather a thousand punks, pompous little farts, waving the banner with one hand and reaching under the table with the other.

What incensed him the most was the blatant jokes of the ones that passed it all off as a jest, pretending to understand everything and in reality not knowing their own minds.

Hypocrisy is no cheap vice; nor can our natural temper be masked for many years together.

Of all things in the world that stink in the nostrils of men, hypocrisy is the worst.

Hypocrisy is nothing, in fact, but a horrible hopefulness.

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.

Had he been willing to live a hypocrite, he would have been respectable, he at least could have died surrounded by other hypocrites, and at his death there would have been an imposing funeral, with miles of carriages, filled with hypocrites, and above his hypocritical dust there would have been a hypocritical monument covered with lies.

Don't mistake dramatics for a conscience.