Phrases on hypocrisy and falsehood, aphorisms on false and lying people, quotes on the double face of those who act in a way that does not conform to what they say.
Double-sided quotes
- The only vice that cannot be forgiven is hypocrisy. The repentance of a hypocrite is itself hypocrisy. (William Hazlitt)
- Not talking about yourself at all is a very distinct hypocrisy.
- In people of limited ability, modesty is simple honesty, but in those with great talent it is hypocrisy. (Arthur Schopenhauer)
- If you don't become a hypocrite, maybe you will be a man. (Stendhal)
- While the resolution to be a better man is an experimental and hypocritical act - to have become more deeply a man is the privilege of those who have suffered. (Oscar Wilde)
- The hypocrite, therefore, does not say what he thinks because he does not want to be judged: the hypocrite therefore denies himself because he does not intend to deal with the reality that surrounds him, because he does not feel like opposing an opinion that enjoys credit in the world.
- A hypocritical face belongs to a perfidious heart. (Emile Deschamps De Saint Amand)
- Hypocrisy is a round the clock task. (William Somerset Maugham)
- False indignation is the most repulsive form of hypocrisy.
- Hypocrisy is a tribute that vice pays to virtue. (Francois De La Rochefoucauld)
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- The hypocrite does not want his thought to be caught, which is why he cleverly hides it completely.
- The first virtue of really great men is that they are sincere. They have eradicated hypocrisy from their hearts. (Anatole France)
- Man is less himself when he speaks in first person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth. (Oscar Wilde)
- I wonder if there is more sin in following what I feel or in the hypocrisy of living what I am not.
- How many times the insignia of power brought by the powerful of this world are an insult to truth, justice and human dignity! How many times their rituals and their great words, in truth, are nothing more than pompous lies, a caricature of the task they are required for their office, that of putting themselves at the service of the good. (Pope Benedict XVI)
- More than half a century of experience has shown that the United Nations is a theater of hypocrisy, a den of corruption, a local market for sordid business and a seminar on cynicism. (Paul Johnson)
- Show yourself who you really are even when everyone in the world wears a mask to survive. (Silvia Zoncheddu)
- The most difficult and tiring of all vices, hypocrisy is a twenty-four-hour task.
- You will learn at your own expense that in the long journey of life you will encounter many masks and few faces. (Luigi Pirandello)
- The hypocrite is constantly striving to look good, despite being bad.
- Man is an animal who pretends, and he is never as much himself as when he is acting. (William Hazlitt)
Aphorisms about fake people
- Politicians and hypocrites are making us all crazy. (Marvin Gaye)
- During the carnival men wear an extra mask. (Xavier Forneret)
- What is modesty? A conventional sentiment, hypocrisy applied to self-judgment. (Carlo Maria Franzero)
- The only vice that cannot be forgiven is hypocrisy. The repentance of a hypocrite is itself hypocrisy.
- Everyone tends to speak not for the sake of truth but as he likes. (Francesco Petrarca)
- Sometimes we try to look better than we are. Other times he tries to look worse. Hypocrisy for hypocrisy, I prefer the latter. (Jacinto Benavente)
- Hypocrites are villains under the guise of saints.
- External hypocrisy, being a sin of morality, is a great political virtue. (Francisco De Quevedo)
- No one can long have one face for himself and another for the crowd without risking not knowing which one is the real one.
- A man whose desire is to be something other than himself, a member of Parliament, or a successful grocer, or a prestigious solicitor, or a judge, or something equally boring, invariably manages to become what he wants. This is his punishment. Those who want a mask must wear it. (Oscar Wilde)
- A man who moralizes is usually a hypocrite, a woman who moralizes is inevitably ugly. (Oscar Wilde)
- A hypocritical face belongs to a perfidious heart.
- Amusing mentality that of the Americans: nobody said anything when Nixon illegally bombed Cambodia, but if they had caught him in a hotel room with a minor they would have kicked him out in two days. (Woody Allen)
- The fools, the superficial, the hypocrites, think that the others are like them ... and this is what they are sorry because they treat them as if they were. (Saint Josemaria Escriva De Balaguer)
- Hypocrisy is not the instrument of the hypocrite, but his prison.
- The blindness of the Puritans is proverbial, like the hypocrisy that has always invaded their minds. (Edgar Allan Poe)
- War is a goddamn nonsense - a vast cancer fueled by lies and self-indecent malice by those who don't have to fight. (John Roderigo Dos Passos)
- Hypocrisy is nothing more than the last refuge of small, thoughtless minds. If you don't know the pleasure of small gestures made with love, you only know how to dress yourself with hypocrisy.
- Courage cannot be counterfeited, it is a virtue that escapes hypocrisy. (Honeré De Balzac)
- The humility of the hypocrite is masked pride.
- There are an infinite number of men, but the faces are even more numerous since each has more than one. (Rainer Maria Rilke)
Phrases on hypocrisy
- When necessity leads us to use sincere words, the mask falls and the man is seen. (Lucretius)
- Sometimes hypocrisy arises by virtue of unjustified prejudice.
- Many saying right things do wrong things. (Xenophon)
- I hope you didn't lead a double life, pretending to be bad and being really good all the time. That would be hypocrisy. (Oscar Wilde)
- Some hypocrisy masks are removable and repositionable, while others are forever.
- With false tears we tear our neighbor; with false smiles we torture ourselves. (Yukana Nogami)
- He who tries to remedy the hatred of the eyes with the smile of the lips acts with hypocrisy.
- Those who know me are silent, and in silence they do not defend me. (Javier Marias)
- When necessity leads us to use sincere words, the mask falls and we see the hypocrite man.
- Living in a small town is not always idyllic: you feel trapped and are more aware of the hypocrisy of society. (Bill Pullman)
- There are many people in the world, but nevertheless there are multiple faces, because everyone has different faces. (Rainer Maria Rilke)
- We must be wary of two categories of people, those who have no personality and those who have more than one: the latter are only false and hypocritical people.
- Sincerity is an open heart. It is found in very few people: what is usually seen is only a subtle dissimulation to win the trust of others. (Francois De La Rochefoucauld)
- Hypocrisy, lies, is the true sister of evil, intolerance, and cruelty. (Raissa Maksimovna Titarenko Gorbaciova)
- In people of limited ability, modesty is simple honesty, but in those with great talent it is hypocrisy.
- No one can, for a long period of time, have one face for himself and another for the multitudes, without ultimately confusing himself on what the truth may be. (Terry O'Quinn)
- On the chessboard lies and hypocrisy do not last long. The creative combination lays bare the presumption of a lie; the ruthless facts, which culminate in checkmate, contradict the hypocrite. (Emanuel Lasker)
- It is difficult to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know well that in his place you would lie by behaving with hypocrisy.
- We are never as little free as when we try to act. (Oscar Wilde)
- A hypocrite is a patient in the double meaning of the term. Calculate a triumph and endure a torture. (Victor Hugo)
- Man uses hypocrisy to deceive himself, sometimes more than to deceive others. (James Balmes)
