Anne Bronte Quotes

Our fear of hypocrisy is forcing us to live in a world where gluttons are fine, so long as they champion gluttony.

I like tea and yoga, but I don't do yoga.

We give advice by the bucket, but take it by the grain.

Everybody's out there to make a case and sometimes a little hypocrisy gets involved with that case.

'Savior Of Nothing' calls out the would-be social justice warriors of the world who become so enveloped in fighting so passionately that they become exactly what they're trying to correct. They preach acceptance so much they become unaccepting.

The biggest seller is cookbooks and the second is diet books - how not to eat what you've just learned how to cook.

Why did the wise guys always accuse other people of being wise guys?

There are people who are known to be very liberal, yet they never give without scolding or pride or even insolence.

I am sometimes shocked by the blasphemies of those who think themselves pious.

We often excuse our own want of philanthropy by giving the name of fanaticism to the more ardent zeal of others.

People like you should be stopped, Mr. Woodrow,' she mused aloud, with a puzzled shake of her wise head. 'You think you're solving the world's problems but actually you're the problem.

Give a man religion without reminding him of his filth, and the result will be arrogance in a three- piece suit.

I give good advice. I do not always take it.

Our country talks a lot on corruption. Everyone advices each other over how to stay away from it. Even those people who are corrupt tend to give advice to others on how to deal with corruption.

The Victorians have been immoderately praised, and immoderately blamed, and surely it is time we formed some reasonable picture of them? There was their courageous, intellectually adventurous side, their greedy and inhuman side, their superbly poetic side, their morally pretentious side, their tea and buttered toast side, and their champagne and Skittles side. Much like ourselves, in fact, though rather dirtier.

It's very contradictory for a man to teach about the murder in corporate capitalism, to isolate and expose the murderes behind it, to instruct that these madmen are completely without stops, are licentious, totally depraved — and then not make adequate preparations to defend himself from the madman's attack. Either they don't really believe their own spiel or they harbor some sort of subconscious death wish

There is a guilty conscience behind every brazen word and act and behind every manifestation of self-righteousness.

Have you ever wondered what a church full of Pharisees would be like? 1. They would all attend every service 2. They would all tithe 3. They would all work in the church 4. They would all go to hell

Many kinds of monkeys have a strong taste for tea, coffee and spirituous liqueurs.

The most popular form of altruism is giving to others the advice you cannot use yourself.

Though we talk peace, we wage war. Sometimes we even wage war in the name of peace. Does that seem paradoxical? Well, war is not afraid of paradoxes.

Most of our censure of others is only oblique praise of self, uttered to show the wisdom and superiority of the speaker. It has all the invidiousness of self-praise, and all the ill-desert of falsehood.

It has been well observed that few are better qualified to give others advice than those who have taken the least of it themselves.

None of our hearts are pure, we always have mixed motives. Are self deceivers, but the worst of all Deceits is to murmur 'Lord, I am not worthy' And, lying easy, turn your face to the wall.

The people who are always hankering loudest for some golden yesteryear usually drive new cars.