Hypocrisy Quotes
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“I hate to hear you talk about all women as if they were fine ladies instead of rational creatures. None of us want to be in calm waters all our lives.”
― Persuasion
― Persuasion

“It's discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.”
― Blithe Spirit
― Blithe Spirit

“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.”
― A Room of One’s Own
― A Room of One’s Own

“The difference between my darkness and your darkness is that I can look at my own badness in the face and accept its existence while you are busy covering your mirror with a white linen sheet. The difference between my sins and your sins is that when I sin I know I'm sinning while you have actually fallen prey to your own fabricated illusions. I am a siren, a mermaid; I know that I am beautiful while basking on the ocean's waves and I know that I can eat flesh and bones at the bottom of the sea. You are a white witch, a wizard; your spells are manipulations and your cauldron from hell yet you wrap yourself in white and wear a silver wig.”
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“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.”
― Orlando
― Orlando

“Wherever you find a great man, you will find a great mother or a great wife standing behind him -- or so they used to say. It would be interesting to know how many great women have had great fathers and husbands behind them.”
― Gaudy Night
― Gaudy Night

“My own sex, I hope, will excuse me, if I treat them like rational creatures, instead of flattering their fascinating graces, and viewing them as if they were in a state of perpetual childhood, unable to stand alone.”
― A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
― A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

“We are all hypocrites. We cannot see ourselves or judge ourselves the way we see and judge others.”
― Battles in the Desert & Other Stories
― Battles in the Desert & Other Stories

“I wore black because I liked it. I still do, and wearing it still means something to me. It's still my symbol of rebellion -- against a stagnant status quo, against our hypocritical houses of God, against people whose minds are closed to others' ideas.”
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“For the powerful, crimes are those that others commit.”
― Imperial Ambitions: Conversations on the Post-9/11 World
― Imperial Ambitions: Conversations on the Post-9/11 World

“I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being good all the time. That would be hypocrisy.”
― The Importance of Being Earnest
― The Importance of Being Earnest

“Do you really believe ... that everything historians tell us about men â€� or about women â€� is actually true? You ought to consider the fact that these histories have been written by men, who never tell the truth except by accident.”
― The Worth of Women: Wherein Is Clearly Revealed Their Nobility and Their Superiority to Men
― The Worth of Women: Wherein Is Clearly Revealed Their Nobility and Their Superiority to Men

“If men could see us as we really are, they would be a little amazed; but the cleverest, the acutest men are often under an illusion about women: they do not read them in a true light: they misapprehend them, both for good and evil: their good woman is a queer thing, half doll, half angel; their bad woman almost always a fiend.”
― Shirley
― Shirley

“People that have trust issues only need to look in the mirror. There they will meet the one person that will betray them the most.”
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“Anything may happen when womanhood has ceased to be a protected occupation.”
― A Room of One’s Own
― A Room of One’s Own

“I was not a hypocrite, with one real face and several false ones. I had several faces because I was young and didn't know who I was or wanted to be.”
― The Joke
― The Joke

“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”
― 1984
― 1984

“As a nation, we began by declaring that 'all men are created equal.' We now practically read it 'all men are created equal, except negroes.' When the Know-Nothings get control, it will read 'all men are created equal, except negroes, and foreigners, and Catholics.' When it comes to this I should prefer emigrating to some country where they make no pretense of loving liberty â€� to Russia, for instance, where despotism can be taken pure, and without the base alloy of hypocrisy.”
― Lincoln Letters
― Lincoln Letters

“It is vain to expect virtue from women till they are in some degree independent of men.”
― A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
― A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
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