170 quotes found
“I know of only two alternatives to hypocrisy: perfection or honesty.”
“[A]n unpleasant nest of nasty, materialistic and aggressive people, careless of the rights of others, imperfectly democratic at home though quick to see the minor slaveries of others, and greedy wi...”
“That physician is no better than a murderer, that negligently delayeth till his patient be dead or past cure (389).”
“We live in a hypocrite and confused world.You will get answer to the questions you don't seek.”
“To be modest in speaking truth is hypocrisy. TM-ST-95”
“They attend with Pharisaical strictness to the outward forms of religion, and at the same time neglect the weightier matters of the law, judgment, mercy, and faith.”
“When a baronet is discovered behind a bush in the park with a guardsman, or a minister of the crown is caught creeping out of a country with his socks stuffed full of bank notes and a woman not his...”
“On the appointed day -- I think it was the next day, but no matter -- Traddles and I repaired to the prison where Mr. Creakle was powerful. It was an immense and solid building, erected at a vast e...”
“But that is the way of life, and that was but one of the first times, among no few to come, that I was taught a useful lesson about how appearances trump truth, and how villains hide their vices be...”
“Without habitual self-examination, you can be hypocritical, but not see it.”
“Under stress, they seek composure above all. But they do not find equanimity.”
“He prefers a deliberate performance that can be made to seem spontaneous.”
“But, of course, what is up on Facebook is her edited life.”
“Priests always had much attention lavished on them by their starstruck fans,those devout housewives and wealthy congregants who treated them as if they were guardians of the velvet rope blocking en...”
“The worst kind of tyrant was the one who once had been the victim.”
“I learned that very often the most intolerant and narrow-minded people are the ones who congratulate themselves on their tolerance and open-mindedness.”
“They will call you immoral if you dare to describe their immorality”
“He denounced self-pity and pitied himself.”
“The result always mattered more than the rhetoric.”
“Do we use the Word of God only as a cue card to commandeer our external behavior?”
