Samuel Hopkins Quotes

Be a hypocrite if you like, but don't talk like one.

In India, we say one thing, and we do something else.

Rush Limbaugh advocating for objectivity is like Donald Trump advocating for humility.

I just don't like when you preach one thing and do something else.

When men think and believe in one set of symbols and act in ways which are contrary to their professed and conscious ideas, confusion and insincerity are bound to result.

It's the old American Double Standard, ya know: Say one thing, do somethin' different. And of course this country is founded on the double standard. That's our history. We were founded on a very basic double standard: This country was founded by slave owners who wanted to be free.

One of my weaknesses happens to be lying, and I could tell you that I'm never going to lie again in my life, but that would be a lie.

Hateful to me as are the gates of hell, Is he who, hiding one thing in his heart, Utters another.

Ambition drove many men to become false; to have one thought locked in the breast, another ready on the tongue.

There is nothing in the world more shameful than establishing one's self on lies and fables.

The priest is the personification of falsehood.

Hypocrisy is the outside of cynicism.

Hateful to me as the gates of Hades is that man who hides one thing in his heart and speaks another.

We ought to see far enough into a hypocrite to see even his sincerity.

When you want to fool the world, tell the truth.

If an eloquent speaker speak not the truth, is there a more horrid kind of object in creation?

The truthful man is usually a liar.

O, what a tangled web we weave, When first we practice to deceive!

The politician is an acrobat. He keeps his balance by saying the opposite of what he does.

Fakery in allegiance to the truth.

I would despise myself if I thought that I was procuring your votes by concealing my opinions, and by avowing one set of principles in one part of the state and a different set in another.

Men condemne the same things in others, which they approve in themselves; on the other side, they publickly commend what they privately condemne;

Hypocrisy is not the failure to practice what you preach but the failure to believe it. Hypocrisy is propaganda.

She tells a lot of lies, this daughter of mine ... She talks a lot about democracy, but she's become a little dictator.

I always felt like, when you're lying, you're kind of pretending to be something you're not.