Philip Massinger Quotes

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

This is an example of hypocrisy

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

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

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

You talk one way, you live another.

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.

Do as we say, and not as we do.

In real life, people are constantly saying one thing and doing another, but if you write your characters that way, the story becomes too hard to follow.

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

... gross, barefaced inconsistency.

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

She tells a lot of lies, this daughter of mine ... She talks a lot about democracy, but she's become a little dictator.

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.

Rush Limbaugh advocating for objectivity is like Donald Trump advocating for humility.

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

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

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.

Hypocrisy is a revolting, psychopathic state.

The Lives of Great Men are more oft' at variance with their profess'd Phillosophies than consistent with 'em.

Thou speak'st like him's untutored to repeat: Who makes the fairest show means most deceit.

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

A person who issues that charge that someone adheres to the principle "do as I say, not as I do" has three options: produce an example; withdraw the charge; take the coward's way out and slink away silently.