A hypocrite is someone who pretends to have certain views, ideals, traits, or feelings when they don’t.
Hypocrisy can take the form of making an effort to look superior and better to others by projecting a false image of goodness.
Hypocrite Quotes
I don’t want people to think I’m a hypocrite. GG Allin.
A hypocrite is a person who – but who isn’t? Don Marquis.
I think I wear my hypocrisy on my sleeve. I would never say I’m not a complete hypocrite. Bo Burnham.
A lot of young actors look up to me, and I wouldn’t trade that for any money in the world. I don’t want to lose their respect and be a hypocrite. James Caan.
The true hypocrite is the one who ceases to perceive his deception, the one who lies with sincerity. Andre Gide.
Hypocrisy is the audacity to preach integrity from a den of corruption. Wes Fesler.
There are three things in the world that deserve no mercy, hypocrisy, fraud, and tyranny. Frederick William Robertson.
It is better to be an outspoken atheist than a hypocrite. George Harrison.
Best Hypocrite Quotes
I have been known for some time as a person who speaks the truth and speaks it strongly. I have always called a liar a liar and a hypocrite a hypocrite. Cindy Sheehan.
Your hypocrisy insults my intelligence. Toba Beta.
Armed neutrality makes it much easier to detect hypocrisy. Criss Jami.
Hypocrisy: noun. The moment you tell someone it is not important to be right, in order to look right to everyone else. Shannon L Alder.
Everybody is a hypocrite. You can’t live on this planet without being a hypocrite. Paul Watson.
We are all hypocrites. We cannot see ourselves or judge ourselves the way we see and judge others. Jose Emilio Pacheco.
Hypocrisy is the resin that holds the plywood of society together. Scott Meyer
Hypocrites get offended by the truth. Jess C Scott
Hypocrites are those who apply to others the standards that they refuse to accept for themselves. Noam Chomsky
If Satan ever laughs, it must be at hypocrites; they are the greatest dupes he has. Charles Caleb Colton
It is always easier to fight for one’s principles than to live up to them. Alfred Adler
Popular Hypocrite Quotes
Only the hypocrite is really rotten to the core. Hannah Arendt.
The only thing worse than a liar is a liar that’s also a hypocrite! Tennessee Williams
The only vice that cannot be forgiven is hypocrisy. The repentance of a hypocrite is itself hypocrisy. William Hazlitt.
I would be a liar, a hypocrite, or a fool – and I’m not any of those – to say that I don’t write for the reader. I do. But for the reader who hears, who really will work at it, going behind what I seem to say. So I write for myself and that reader who will pay the dues. Maya Angelou.
We ought to see far enough into a hypocrite to see even his sincerity. Thomas Fuller
The difference between a saint and a hypocrite is that one lies for his religion, the other by it. Minna Antrim.
Kids have what I call a built-in hypocrisy antenna that comes up and blocks out what you’re saying when you’re being a hypocrite. Ben Carson
I am not a hypocrite. Kate Winslet.
I can’t be a hypocrite as a coach because as a player that’s what I wanted. I wanted feedback, I wanted communication from the boss. I showed up for work, you can yell at me if you want, but I want input. So that’s the kind of coach I want to be. Adam Oates.
Hypocrisy is a tribute that vice pays to virtue. Francois Duc De La Rochefoucauld.
Hypocrisy has its own elegant symmetry. Julie Metz.
Top Hypocrite Quotes
A hypocrite despises those whom he deceives, but has no respect for himself. He would make a dupe of himself too, if he could. William Hazlitt.
It’s discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit. Noel Coward.
I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being good all the time. That would be hypocrisy. Oscar Wilde
Corruption and hypocrisy ought not to be inevitable products of democracy, as they undoubtedly are today. Mahatma Gandhi.
I fully embrace myself as a hypocrite. Bo Burnham
I’d be the biggest hypocrite if I said I really worked very hard for my career, because it was given to me on a silver platter. I can’t take any credit. Fabio Lanzoni
I’m not a hypocrite and I’m a transparent person. Paulinho.
Sincerity makes the very least person to be of more value than the most talented hypocrite. Charles Spurgeon.
A hypocrite is the kind of politician who would cut down a redwood tree, then mount the stump and make a speech for conservation. Adlai Stevenson I.
There are people who curse worse than me and want to hide it all, but I ain’t no hypocrite. Bushwick Bill.
