Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the magic and delicious power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size.
Virginia WoolfTags: empowerment gender men women feminism arrogance hypocrisy inequality self-importance
I care not for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.
Abraham LincolnTags: dogs hypocrisy pets generosity benevolence charity
The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons.
Ralph Waldo EmersonTags: hypocrisy
[S]he stood for some moments gazing at the sisters, with affection beaming in one eye, and calculation shining out of the other.
Charles DickensTags: expression hypocrisy eyes calculation
A hypocrite is the kind of politician who would cut down a redwood tree, then mount the stump and make a speech for conservation.
Adlai E. Stevenson IIOne thing you can't hide - is when you're crippled inside.
John LennonTags: pain suffering emotions beatles hypocrisy
If anyone says that the best life of all is to sail the sea, and then adds that I must not sail upon a sea where shipwrecks are a common occurrence and there are often sudden storms that sweep the helmsman in an adverse direction, I conclude that this man, although he lauds navigation, really forbids me to launch my ship.
SenecaTags: education hypocrisy pith
I won't insult your intelligence by suggesting that you really believe what you just said.
William F. Buckley Jr.Tags: hypocrisy
These people walk by a widow deformed by leprosy...walk by children dressed in rags living in the street, and they think, 'Business as usual.' But if they perceive a slight against God, it is a different story. Their faces go red, their chests heave mightily, they sputter angry words. The degree of their indignation is astonishing. Their resolve is frightening.
Yann MartelTags: god religion hypocrisy fanatacism
The Ministry of Peace concerns itself with war, the Ministry of Truth with lies, the Ministry of Love with torture and the Ministry of Plenty with starvation. These contradictions are not accidental, nor do they result from from ordinary hypocrisy: they are deliberate exercises in doublethink
George OrwellTags: hypocrisy contradiction doublethink
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