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quotes by topic hypocrisy

" Mrs. Baker's social manner was almost robotlike in its perfection. All her comments and remarks were natural, normal, everyday currency, but one had a suspicion that the whole thing was like an actor playing a part for perhaps the seven hundredth time. It was an automatic performance, completely divorced from what Mrs. Baker might really have been thinking or feeling. "

Agatha Christie

facade , hypocrisy

" For, once there's a death, one doesn't like to think there's been harsh words spoken and no chance of taking them back. "

Agatha Christie

Truth , hypocrisy

" There are some upon this earth of yours who lay claim to know us, and who do their deeds of passion, pride, ill-will, hatred, envy, bigotry, and selfishness in our name; who are as strange to us and all our kith and kin, as if they had never lived. Remember that, and charge their doings on themselves, not us. "

Charles Dickens

hypocrisy , zealots

" All other swindlers upon earth are nothing compared to self-swindlers. "

Charles Dickens

Authenticity , hypocrisy

" On the appointed day -- I think it was the next day, but no matter -- Traddles and I repaired to the prison where Mr. Creakle was powerful. It was an immense and solid building, erected at a vast expense. I could not help thinking, as we approached the gate, what an uproar would have been made in the country, if any deluded man had proposed to spend one half the money it had cost, on the erection of an industrial school for the young, or a house of refuge for the deserving old. "

Charles Dickens

hypocrisy

" Mr. Pembroke, watching his broad back, desired to bury a knife in it. The desire passed, partly because it was unclerical, partly because he had no knife, and partly because he soon blurred over what had happened. To him all criticism was "rudeness": he never heeded it, for he never needed it: he was never wrong. "

Desire , hypocrisy

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

Margaret Atwood

hypocrisy

" Creating some god for one's inspirations was always a good way to avoid accusations of pride should the scheme succeed, as well as the blame if did not. "

Margaret Atwood

hypocrisy