One should examine oneself for a very long time before thinking of condemning others. РMoli̬re
Every man alone is sincere. At the entrance of a second person, hypocrisy begins. We parry and fend the approach of our fellow-man by compliments, by gossip, by amusements, by affairs. We cover up our thought from him under a hundred folds. – Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Friendship,” Essays, 1841
Whatever you condemn, you have done yourself. – Georg Groddeck, The Book of the It, 1950
Your religion is what you do when the sermon is over. – Quoted in P.S. I Love You, compiled by H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Forbear to judge, for we are sinners all. – William Shakespeare, Henry VI
As no roads are so rough as those that have just been mended, so no sinners are so intolerant as those that have just turned saints. – Charles Caleb Colton
All reformers, however strict their social conscience, live in houses just as big as they can pay for. – Logan Pearsall Smith
The essence of immorality is the tendency to make an exception of myself. – Jane Addams
That which we call sin in others is experiment for us. – Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Experience”
All of us are experts at practicing virtue at a distance. – Theodore M. Hesburgh
Go put your creed into your deed. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
The most melancholy thing about human nature, is, that a man may guide others into the path of salvation, without walking in it himself; that he may be a pilot, and yet a castaway. – Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers
Hypocrite: the man who murdered both his parents… pleaded for mercy on the grounds that he was an orphan. – Abraham Lincoln
If it were not for the intellectual snobs who pay, the arts would perish with their starving practitioners — let us thank heaven for hypocrisy. – Aldous Huxley
Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo. – H.G. Wells
The injury we do and the one we suffer are not weighed in the same scales. – Aesop, Fables
Because hypocrisy stinks in the nostrils one is likely to rate it as a more powerful agent for destruction than it is. – Rebecca West, The Strange Necessity, 1928
In the last analysis we must be judged by what we do and not by what we believe. We are as we behave — with a very small margin of credit for our unmanifested vision of how we might behave if we could take the trouble. – Geoffrey L. Rudd, The British Vegetarian, September/October 1962
The world is full of fools and faint hearts; and yet everyone has courage enough to bear the misfortunes, and wisdom enough to manage the affairs, of his neighbor. – Benjamin Franklin
They are not all saints who use holy water. – English Proverb
