Inspirational Quotes on Hypocrisy

“Gladly we desire to make other men perfect, but we will not amend our own fault.”

“How seldom we weigh our neighbor in the same balance with ourselves.”

“If you cannot mold yourself entirely as you would wish, how can you expect other people to be entirely to your liking?”

“Out of sight, out of mind. The absent are always in the wrong.”

“He who reforms himself, has done much toward reforming others; and one reason why the world is not reformed, is, because each would have others make a beginning, and never thinks of himself doing it.”

“The hypocrite, certainly, is a secret atheist; for if he did believe there was a God, he durst not be so bold as to deceive Him to His face.”

“How many threadbare souls are to be found under silken cloaks and gowns!”

“Piety does not mean that a man should make a sour face about things, and refuse to enjoy in moderation what his Maker has given.”

“The schoolmaster deserves to be beaten himself who beats nature in a boy for a fault. And I question whether all the whippings in the world can make their parts which are naturally sluggish rise one minute before the hour nature hath appointed.”

“Though "the words of the wise be as nails fastened by the masters of assemblies," yet their examples are the hammer to drive them in to take the deeper hold. A father that whipped his son for swearing, and swore himself whilst he whipped him, did more harm by his example than good by his correction.”

“Many hope the tree may be felled that they may gather chips by the fall.”

“Those who are surly and imperious to their inferiors are generally humble, flattering, and cringing to their superiors.”

“Prescribe no positive laws to thy will; for thou mayest be forced tomorrow to drink the same water thou despisest today.”

“A fox should not be on the jury at a goose's trial.”

“Don't let your will roar when your power only whispers.”

“Every horse thinks its own pack heaviest.”

“He does not believe who does not live according to his belief.”

“He that flings dirt at another dirtieth himself most.”

“The lion is not so fierce as painted.”

“The mob has many heads but no brains.”