hypocrisy

Without habitual self-examination, you can be hypocritical, but not see it.

Between saying and doing, many a pair of shoes is worn out.

They were so absorbed in their plotting that they did not hear Boule de Suif return. But the Comte's whispered 'shh!' made them all look up. There she was. A sudden silence fell, and at first a feeling of embarrassment prevented them from speaking to her. At last, however, the Comtesse, more of an adept than the rest in social duplicity, asked her: 'Did you enjoy the christening?

How furious she must be, now that she's been taken at her word.

The famous atheist Christopher Hitchens once declared that __ou__e expelled from your mother__ uterus as if shot from a cannon, towards a barn door studded with old nail files and rusty hooks._ Presumably that was what he had in mind when conceiving his three children.

Shared grief is just pride with a sad face.

I don't like that guy. He calls the cops for everything.

That physician is no better than a murderer, that negligently delayeth till his patient be dead or past cure (389).

Except for the field organizers of strikes, who were pretty tough monkeys and devoted, most of the so-called Communists I met were middle-class, middle-aged people playing a game of dreams. I remember a woman in easy circumstances saying to another even more affluent: 'After the revolution even we will have more, won't we, dear?' Then there was another lover of proletarians who used to raise hell with Sunday picknickers on her property.I guess the trouble was that we didn't have any self-admitted proletarians. Everyone was a temporarily embarrassed capitalist. Maybe the Communists so closely questioned by the investigation committees were a danger to America, but the ones I knew__t least they claimed to be Communists__ouldn't have disrupted a Sunday-school picnic. Besides they were too busy fighting among themselves.

As she grew older, Maddy discovered that she had disappointed almost everyone. An awkward girl with a sullen mouth, a curtain of hair, and a tendency to slouch, she had neither Mae's sweet nature nor sweet face. Her eyes were rather beautiful, but few people ever noticed this, and it was widely believed Maddy was ugly, a troublemaker, too clever for her own good, too stubborn - or too slack - to change.Of course, folk agreed that it was not her fault she was so brown or her sister so pretty, but a smile costs nothing, as the saying goes, and if only the girl had made an effort once in a while, or even showed a little gratitude for all the help and free advice, then maybe she would have settled down.

For even though the rest of the city--no, the rest of the country--starved and searched fruitlessly for work and slept in a humpy in the park, society's finest could still squander their money however they saw fit.The unemployed, they would say, were lazy. If they worked harder, they'd do as well as Mr. Harry Moneypants was doing, who'd earned his vast fortune by having the foresightedness of selecting rich parents, who had, in their time, also cleverly selected rich parents.

Many common lies and hypocrisies are like that, just out of the harmony of the moment.

All of us have to be prevaricators, hypocrites, and liars every day of our lives; otherwise the social structure would fall into pieces the first day. We must act in one another's presence just as we must wear clothes. It is for the best

The deadliest Pharisaism today is not hypocrisy, but unconscious unreality.

We are all hypocrites. We cannot see ourselves or judge ourselves the way we see and judge others.

The lamb misused breeds public strifeAnd yet forgives the butcher's knife.

A woman knows very well that, though a wit sends her his poems, praises her judgment, solicits her criticism, and drinks her tea, this by no means signifies that he respects her opinions, admires her understanding, or will refuse, though the rapier is denied him, to run through the body with his pen.

Hypocrisy is a tribute that vice pays to virtue.