James Harvey Robinson Quotes

Hypocrites are more enraging than extremists, as every campaign operative knows.

One face to the world, another at home - makes for misery.

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.

Ah, lips that say one thing, while the heart thinks another.

You talk one way, you live another.

Every race, every art has its hypocrisy. The world is fed with a little truth and many lies.

One of my weaknesses happens to be lying, and I could tell you that I'm never going to lie again in my life, but that would be a lie.

When people talk, they lay lines on each other, do a lot of role playing, sidestep, shilly-shally and engage in all manner of vagueness and innuendo. We do this and expect others to do it, yet at the same time we profess to long for the plain truth, for people to say what they mean, simple as that. Such hypocrisy is a human universal.

Bad faith likes discourse on friendship and loyalty.

Nowadays those are rewarded who make right appear wrong.

Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises, for never intending to go beyond promise, it costs nothing.

Politics is when you say you are going to do one thing while intending to do another. Then you do neither what you said nor what you intended.

Ambition drove many men to become false; to have one thought locked in the breast, another ready on the tongue.

Hypocrisy is the outside of cynicism.

Knavery and flattery are blood relations.

We ought to see far enough into a hypocrite to see even his sincerity.

The world is a perpetual caricature of itself; at every moment it is the mockery and the contradiction of what it is pretending to be.

There's an old saying amongst players in football talking about your general manger and coaches, they speak with a forked tongue.

A good portion of speaking will consist in knowing how to lie.

The truthful man is usually a liar.

... gross, barefaced inconsistency.

The politician is an acrobat. He keeps his balance by saying the opposite of what he does.

Fakery in allegiance to the truth.

They say, and do not.