Thomas Hobbes Quotes

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

Hypocrisy is the outside of cynicism.

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

Hypocrisy is the vaseline of political intercourse.

We have a Sunday code and a weekday code. We preach good and practice evil. We clothe the wolf of our actions in the sheep's clothing of our beautiful phrases.

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.

The most worthless of mankind are not afraid to condemn in others the same disorders which they allow in themselves; and can readily discover some nice difference in age, character, or station, to justify the partial distinction.

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

To all the rest of his Absurdities, (for vice is always unreasonable,) he adds one more, who expects that Vertue from another which he won't practise himself.

Do as we say, and not as we do.

Hypocrisy is not generally a social sin, but a virtue.

... gross, barefaced inconsistency.

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.

The worst men give the best advice

Hypocrisy is the universal solvent of social relations.

Sometimes the manager says one thing and does another thing!

Cant is the twin sister of hypocrisy.

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

As we see now the American officials, they say something in the morning and they do the opposite in the evening. So, you cannot judge those people according to what they say. You cannot take them at their words, to be frank.

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

This is an example of hypocrisy

The best of women are hypocrites.

When hypocrisy is a character trait, it also affects one's thinking, because it consists in the negation of all the aspects of reality that one finds disagreeable, irrational or repugnant.

Volumes might be written upon the impiety of the pious.