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Letter "H" » hypocrisy
«Hypocrisy is the lubricant of society.»
«I don't like hypocrisy-even in international relations.»
«Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises, for never intending to go beyond promise, it costs nothing»
Author: Edmund Burke
(Philosopher, Statesman)
| About:
Hypocrisy
| Keywords:
afford, costs, hypocrisy, intending, magnificent, promises
«Hypocrisy is a fashionable vice, and all fashionable vices pass for virtue»
Author: Moliere
(Actor, Playwright, Writer)
| About:
Fashion,
Hypocrisy
| Keywords:
fashionable, hypocrisy, vices
«If it were not for the intellectual snobs who pay, the arts would perish with their starving practitioners - let us thank heaven for hypocrisy»
Author: Aldous Huxley
(Critic, Novelist)
| Keywords:
hypocrisy, practitioner, practitioners, snobs, starving
«I have often been asked, ''Do not people bore you?'' I do not understand quite what that means. I suppose the calls of the stupid and curious, especially of newspaper reporters, are always inopportune. I also dislike people who try to talk down to my understanding. They are like people who when walking with you try to shorten their steps to suit yours; the hypocrisy in both cases is equally exasperating.»
Author: Helen Keller
(Author, Educator)
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bore, calls, cases, curious, dislike, equally, exasperated, exasperates, exasperating, hypocrisies, hypocrisy, inopportune, newspaper, Reporters, shorten, shortening, shortens, steps, suit, suppose, talk down, The Reporter
«Hypocrisy in anything whatever may deceive the cleverest and most penetrating man, but the least wide-awake of children recognizes it, and is revolted by it, however ingeniously it may be disguised»
Author: Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
(Novelist, Philosopher, Thinker)
| About:
Children,
Hypocrisy
| Keywords:
cleverest, deceive, disguised, hypocrisies, hypocrisy, ingeniously, penetrating, recognizes, revolted, revolts, wide-awake, wide
«In England the only homage which they pay to Virtue - is hypocrisy.»
«I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being good all the time. That would be hypocrisy.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
all the time, double, have-not, hypocrisies, hypocrisy, leading, pretending, wick, wicked, wickedest
«It has been the political career of this man to begin with hypocrisy, proceed with arrogance, and finish with contempt»
Author: Thomas Paine
(Writer)
| About:
Politicians
| Keywords:
arrogance, career, contempt, finish, hypocrisy, proceed, This Man, to begin with
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