How seldom we weigh our neighbors in the same balance as ourselves. – Thomas à Kempis
We are not hypocrites in our sleep. – William Hazlitt
When you say that you agree with a thing in principle you mean that you have not the slightest intention of carrying it out in practice. – Otto von Bismarck
Hypocrite reader — my fellow — my brother! – StJerome
Almost all of us long for peace and freedom; but very few of us have much enthusiasm for the thoughts, feelings, and actions that make for peace and freedom. – Aldous Huxley
When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty. – George Bernard Shaw
Live truth instead of professing it. – Elbert Hubbard
Those whose conduct gives room for talk are always the first to attack their neighbors. РJean Baptiste Moli̬re, Tartuffe
Most of us are aware of and pretend to detest the barefaced instances of that hypocrisy by which men deceive others, but few of us are upon our guard or see that more fatal hypocrisy by which we deceive and over-reach our own hearts. – Laurence Sterne, 1760
Saying is one thing, doing another. We must consider the sermon and the preacher distinctly and apart. – Michel de Montaigne
A man generally has two reasons for doing a thing. One that sounds good, and a real one. – J. Pierpoint Morgan
History is the chronicle of divorces between creed and deed. – Louis Fischer
People are very inclined to set moral standards for others. – Elizabeth Drew, The New Yorker, 1987 February 16th
A man who should act, for one day, on the supposition that all the people about him were influenced by the religion which they professed would find himself ruined by night. – Thomas Macaulay
We have two kinds of morality side by side: one which we preach but do not practice and another which we practice but seldom preach. – Bertrand Russell
Few love to hear the sins they love to act. – William Shakespeare
He rightly reads scripture who turns words into deeds. – Saint Bernard of Clairvaux
Loud indignation against vice often stands for virtue in the eyes of bigots. – J. Petit-Senn
The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be. – Socrates
