Roald Dahl Quotes

I've always felt like there are certain politicians that wear their religion on their sleeve in a way that you almost feel is disingenuous. I think that your faith has to be first personal. I struggle with those people that preach something and go back behind closed doors and live differently.

I just don't like when you preach one thing and do something else.

An ounce of hypocrisy is worth a pound of ambition.

Hypocrisy is a detriment to progress. There's always a hidden agenda.

Be a hypocrite if you like, but don't talk like one.

Hypocrisy is not the failure to practice what you preach but the failure to believe it. Hypocrisy is propaganda.

If Christ were here now there is one thing he would not be—a Christian.

Living on hypocrisy is not a healthy diet for patriots.

Christians don't tell lies they just go to church and sing them.

I've never seen anybody that lied as much as Ted Cruz. And he goes around saying he's a Christian.

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.

Hypocrisy is fatal to religion.

A cat won't curry favor even if it's in their best interests to do so. A cat can't be a hypocrite. If more preachers were like cats, this would be a more religious country.

The best of women are hypocrites.

Often, the people who speak loudest about republican values are the least when it comes to honouring them.

How is it possible for those who are men of honor in their persons, thus to become notorious liars in their party

The only way the devil really exists in my opinion... is in interactions with people who don't walk the walk and talk the talk; people who act one way, or talk one way and then do another. Those are the deals with the devil. I don't see the devil as somebody who is a horned, goateed guy with a fork in his hand that's there to continuously stab me and send my soul to hell. I don't see it that way at all.

He is a hypocrite who professes what he does not believe; not he who does not practice all he wishes or approves.

I felt it was my duty to praise all of God's works with fervent enthusiasm. At the same time I killed flies in my house in a spirit of hatred, exasperation and contempt. My praise to God for all his works was dishonest, the act of killing the fly was honest.

I can't abide people who go soft over animals and then cheat every human they come across!

Many an honest man practices upon himself an amount of deceit sufficient, if practised upon another, and in a little different way, to send him to the state prison.

Avoid doing what you would blame others for doing.

Those who make use of devotion as a means and end generally are hypocrites.

The difference between a politician and a pickpocket is that a pickpocket doesn't always get indignant when you tell him to keep his hands to himself.

The senator has got to understand if he's going to have - he can't have it both ways. He can't take the high horse and then claim the low road.