Re: Letter"H"

Posted by openH2O on 2007/1/6 9:16:13

hypocrisy

i have double standard over many issues. one of them is the cosmetic treatment of using eyelash. on one hand it really enhances a smart lady's beauty. one the others, i cant help notice that it is faked. This is one of my self reflection of becoming a hypocrite. haha.

here is some quotes found in wk.
* "Do as I say, not as I do." - Anonymous
o Quoted by, among others, Genesis's Jesus He Knows Me

* "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" - Tolstoy

* "The only vice which cannot be forgiven is hypocrisy. The repentance of a hypocrite is itself hypocrisy." - William Hazlitt

* "A conservative government is an organized hypocrisy." - Benjamin Disraeli

* "Ostentation is the signal flag of hypocrisy." - Edwin Hubbel Chapin

* "Hypocrisy is the homage that vice pays to virtue." - Francois De La Rochefoucauld

* "Manners are the hypocrisy of a nation." - Honore De Balzac

* "Superstition, idolatry, and hypocrisy have ample wages, but truth goes a-begging." - Martin Luther
o var: "Superstition, idolatry and hypocrisy have ample wages, but the truth goes begging." - Martin Luther
* "Hypocrisy is the lubricant of society." - David Hull

* "At the entrance of a second person, hypocrisy begins." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
o var: "Every man alone is sincere. At the entrance of a second person, hypocrisy begins." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

* "We are all hypocrites. It is in our very nature to be so. So much so that even our protestation of hypocrisy is, in itself, patently hypocritical." - Claire Worthington

* "Now you welcome me to a town called hypocrisy."- Ian Watkins, LostProphets, A Town Called Hypocrisy.