Giovanni Boccaccio Quotes

Do as we say, and not as we do.

We can't allow our leaders to play the old 'do as I say, not as I do' game.

Hypocrisy is annoying but not evil. Someone who says one thing and does another has doubled their chances of being half right.

We have all heard the story of the man who preached so well and lived so badly, that when he was in the pulpit everybody said he ought never to come out again, and when he was out of it they all declared he never ought to enter it again.

Ladies and gentlemen, even my own staff challenges me. When I issue edicts, commands, orders, ideas, you would think that there would be overwhelming blanket acquiescence, approval, and support.

My judges preach against free love openly, practice it secretly.

Men condemne the same things in others, which they approve in themselves; on the other side, they publickly commend what they privately condemne;

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

We have, in fact, two kinds of morality side by side; one which we preach but do not practice, and another which we practice but seldom preach.

It's easy to make jokes about Donald Trump. There is such a difference between what he says and his behavior. It's not 180 degrees off with him. It's some sort of oblique angle.

You can be brilliant in some ways and despicable in others. You can be a clean, upright, moral individual in your private life who never swears, treats women with respect, and speaks highly of duty and honor - and go out every day and dedicate yourself to a cause that makes the world worse.

Some men will not shave on Sunday, and yet they spend all the week in shaving their fellow-men; and many folks think it very wicked to black their boots on Sunday morning, yet they do not hesitate to black their neighbor's reputation on week-days.

Hypocrisy is an homage that vice renders to virtue.

Publicly, we say one thing....Actually, we do another.

It's the old American Double Standard, ya know: Say one thing, do somethin' different. And of course this country is founded on the double standard. That's our history. We were founded on a very basic double standard: This country was founded by slave owners who wanted to be free.

What pity 'tis, one that can speak so well, Should in his actions be so ill!

The people heard it, and approved the doctrine, and immediately practiced the contrary.

The egoist does not tolerate egoism.

Preachers say, "Do as I say, not as I do." But if a physician had the same disease upon him that I have, and he should bid me do one thing and he do quite another, could I believe him?

Who trades in contradictions will not be contradicted.

The commonplace expression that life is nothing but a play is verified above all in this: the world speaks absolutely consistently in one way and acts absolutely consistently in another.

The gulf between the information we proclaim & the information we know to be true is vast. In other words: we say one thing & do another.

This is an example of hypocrisy

The man of upright life is obeyed before he speaks.

You don't order someone to polish your shoes one day and call them 'sister' the next.