Top Ten Quirky Quotations About Hypocrisy

The Top Ten

1 If I were two-faced would I be wearing this one? (Abraham Lincoln)

2 I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all the time. That would be hypocrisy. (Oscar Wilde)

3 King David and King Solomon led merry, merry lives, with many, many friends and many, many wives; but when old age crept over them with many, many qualms, King Solomon wrote the proverbs and King David wrote the psalms! (James Bell Naylor)

4 An orgy looks particularly alluring seen through the mists of righteous indignation. (Malcolm Muggeridge)

5 There are moments when we in the British press can show extraordinary sensitivity; these moments usually coincide with the death of a proprietor, or a proprietor's wife. (Craig Brown)

6 Most people sell their souls, and live with a good conscience on the proceeds. (Logan Pearsall Smith)

7 In England the only homage which they pay to Virtue - is hypocrisy. (Lord Byron)

8 In 1969 I published a small book on Humility. It was a pioneering work which had not, to my knowledge, been superseded. (Lord Longford)

9 He combines the manners of a Marquis with the morals of a Methodist. (W. S. Gilbert)

10 We are so very 'umble. (Charles Dickens, from David Copperfield)

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