Hamza Yusuf Quotes

He is a hypocrite who professes what he does not believe; not he who does not practice all he wishes or approves.

Hypocrisy in anything whatever may deceive the cleverest and most penetrating man, but the least wide-awake of children recognizes it, and is revolted by it, however ingeniously it may be disguised.

Hypocrite reader my fellow my brother!

An ounce of hypocrisy is worth a pound of ambition.

I abhor hypocrisy.

Hypocrisy is the tribute that vice pays to virtue.

I ever will profess myself the greatest friend to those whose actions best correspond with their doctrine; which, I am sorry to say, is too seldom the case amongst those nations who pretend most to civilization.

I don't like hypocrisy—even in international relations.

Hypocrisy is the universal solvent of social relations.

It might be said that the pose of absolute honesty is the most dishonest one of all.

We're against hypocrisy, lies, bigotry, show business, insincerity, phonies, and fakers.

Hypocrisy is the necessary burden of villainy, affectation part of the chosen trappings of folly; the one completes a villain, the other only finishes a fop.

The liar was the hottest to defend his veracity, the coward his courage, the ill-bred his gentlemanliness, and the cad his honor

Never trust a man who lays his hand on his heart when he assures you of anything.

Cant is the twin sister of hypocrisy.

I detest the man who hides on thing in the depths of his heart and speaks forth another.

It is a curious thing that when one speaks from the heart it is invariably in the worst of taste.

Faithful heart may have froward tongue.

Hypocrisy is a revolting, psychopathic state.

Freedom, Truth, Honour — you could rattle off a hundred such words and behind every one of them would gather a thousand punks, pompous little farts, waving the banner with one hand and reaching under the table with the other.

Go put your creed into your deed, Nor speak with double tongue.

Surely if men's hearts were right, short sermons would be enough.

How inexpressible is the meanness of being a hypocrite! how horrible is it to be a mischievous and malignant hypocrite.

Of all things in the world that stink in the nostrils of men, hypocrisy is the worst.

Piety is the tinfoil of pretense.