Sanctimoniousness Quotes

Hypocrisy is the homage vice pays to virtue.

Self-righteousness in retrospect is easy--also cheap.

Volumes might be written upon the impiety of the pious.

The supreme satisfaction is to be able to despise one's neighbor and this fact goes far to account for religious intolerance. It is evidently consoling to reflect that the people next door are headed for hell.

Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.

That Newt Gingrich or any mainstream Republican has the nerve to look down from what they perceive as their moral mountaintop at anyone is laughable.

Of all the cants which are canted in this canting world, - though the cant of hypocrites may be the worst, - the cant of criticism is the most tormenting!

In England the only homage which they pay to Virtue - is hypocrisy.

There's this tendency to be held in great esteem if you are judgmental. A sort of moral policing, being opinionated. What right has one to act like judges? What right has one to police another?

Canting hypocrisy

There are pretenders to piety as well as to courage.

I don't understand some people, using biblical terms to criticize me when this is just a game.

The difference between a saint and a hypocrite is that one lies for his religion, the other by it.

The thing I hate the most in any kind of writing is self-righteousness. Where you pretend you don't have the same kinds of flaws your subject has.

I'm sure Sting's a lovely guy. It's just that nobody wants to be seen as that holier-than-thou thing. That over-earnestness is a bit of a problem with people in bands and celebrities or whatever.

Anyone who claims to have an entirely clear conscience is almost certainly a bore.

We know no spectacle so ridiculous as the British public in one of its periodical fits of morality.

The principal feature of American liberalism is sanctimoniousness. By loudly denouncing all bad things — war and hunger and date rape — liberals testify to their own terrific goodness. More important, they promote themselves to membership in a self-selecting elite of those who care deeply about such things.... It's a kind of natural aristocracy, and the wonderful thing about this aristocracy is that you don't have to be brave, smart, strong or even lucky to join it, you just have to be liberal.

No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant.

Hypocrisy is the tribute that vice pays to virtue.

I'm always suspicious of people who repent of other people's sins.

Whenever you are faced with someone who has made far more errors in judgment and far more mistakes than you, you have a tendency to get on your high horse.

Censoriously asserting one's moral superiority and treating skeptics as imbeciles and deplorables wins few converts.

The repentance of a hypocrite is itself hypocrisy.

The people who talk the most about God are people who are the least like God.