Logo
Quote by Abraham Lincoln
Hypocrite: the man who murdered both his parents... pleaded for me

Hypocrite: the man who murdered both his parents… pleaded for mercy on the grounds that he was an orphan. – Abraham Lincoln

Other quotes by Abraham Lincoln

A capacity, and taste, for reading, gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others. It is the key, or one of the keys, to the already solved problems. And not only so. It gives a relish, and facility, for successfully pursuing the unsolved ones. – Abraham Lincoln

Category:
Presidents Day
Author
Abraham Lincoln
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
Hypocrisy
category

He rightly reads scripture who turns words into deeds. – Saint Bernard of Clairvaux

Category:
Hypocrisy

Man is the only animal that learns by being hypocritical. He pretends to be polite and then, eventually, he becomes polite. – Jean Kerr

Category:
Hypocrisy

I desire so to conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end… I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside of me. – Abraham Lincoln

Category:
Hypocrisy

Your religion is what you do when the sermon is over. – Quoted in P.S. I Love You, compiled by H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Category:
Hypocrisy

Random Quotes

Remember the great adversity of art or anything else is a hurried life. – Robert James Waller

Category:
Haste

Why is propaganda so much more successful when it stirs up hatred than when it tries to stir up friendly feeling? – Bertrand Russell

Category:
Propaganda

Forget romantic fiction, a survey has found that most women would rather read a good book than go shopping, have sex, or sleep. – Janet Street-Porter

Category:
Romantic

What does the future, that half of time, matter to the man who is infatuated with eternity? – Emile M. Cioran

Category:
Future