Meyer London Quotes

Hypocrisy is the outside of cynicism.

Hypocrisy is the tribute that vice pays to virtue.

Hypocrisy is a fearful evil, and every thing which has a tendency to produce it should be avoided.

Whenever there are great virtues, it's a sure sign something's wrong.

Because hypocrisy stinks in the nostrils one is likely to rate it as a more powerful agent for destruction than it is.

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.

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.

I think the greatest rogues are they who talk most of their honesty.

A hypocrite despises those whom he deceives, but has no respect for himself. He would make a dupe of himself too, if he could.

Men make counterfeit money; in many more cases, money makes counterfeit men.

Nowadays those are rewarded who make right appear wrong.

Boston has carried the practice of hypocrisy to the n-th degree of refinement, grace, and failure.

An ounce of hypocrisy is worth a pound of ambition.

Behavior which appears superficially correct but is intrinsically corrupt always irritates those who see below the surface.

The only vice that cannot be forgiven is hypocrisy. The repentance of a hypocrite is itself hypocrisy.

Hypocrisy is the homage vice pays to virtue.

Hypocrisy is the scarlet letter in politics.

Hypocrisy is the vaseline of political intercourse.

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 the universal solvent of social relations.

Hypocrisy is a revolting, psychopathic state.

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.

Lying is a terrible vice, it testifies that one despises God, but fears men.