Definition of Hypocrite

Hypocrite

One who plays a part; especially, one who, for the purpose of winning approbation of favor, puts on a fair outside seeming; one who feigns to be other and better than he is; a false pretender to virtue or piety; one who simulates virtue or piety.

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Hypocrite Quotations

He who would do good to another must do it in Minute Particulars: general Good is the plea of the scoundrel, hypocrite, and flatterer, for Art and Science cannot exist but in minutely organized Particulars.
William Blake

Sincerity makes the very least person to be of more value than the most talented hypocrite.
Charles Spurgeon

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

A hypocrite is the kind of politician who would cut down a redwood tree, then mount the stump and make a speech for conservation.
Adlai E. Stevenson

The only thing worse than a liar is a liar that's also a hypocrite!
Tennessee Williams

Hypocrite reader my fellow my brother!
Charles Baudelaire

Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really rotten to the core.
Hannah Arendt

I think people are born bisexual and the make subconscious choices based on the pressures of society. I have no question in my mind about being bisexual. But I'm also a hypocrite: I would never date a girl who is bisexual, because that means they also sleep with men, and men are so dirty that I'd never sleep with a girl who had slept with a man.
Megan Fox

A hypocrite despises those whom he deceives, but has no respect for himself. He would make a dupe of himself too, if he could.
William Hazlitt

The only vice that cannot be forgiven is hypocrisy. The repentance of a hypocrite is itself hypocrisy.
William Hazlitt

Hypocrites in the Church? Yes, and in the lodge and at the home. Don't hunt through the Church for a hypocrite. Go home and look in the mirror. Hypocrites? Yes. See that you make the number one less.
Billy Sunday

A hypocrite is a person who - but who isn't?
Don Marquis

The Christian community latched onto a lot of my music, because there were a lot of things about my struggle they related to. But I didn't really want to come out and be identified as a Christian, because I didn't want to be a hypocrite, because my life wasn't right.
Scott Stapp

The difference between a saint and a hypocrite is that one lies for his religion, the other by it.
Minna Antrim

Why lie? I'm not going to be a hypocrite and say the opposite of what I think, like some others do.
Cristiano Ronaldo

For me, the key is I always have to be the same person.If someone was to hear me say something on Fox and hear me say something different on NPR, they would say, 'The guy is a hypocrite.'
Juan Williams

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Hypocrite Translations

hypocrite in Dutch is veinzer, huichelaar, hypocriet
hypocrite in French is pharisien
hypocrite in German is Heuchler
hypocrite in Hungarian is hipokrita
hypocrite in Italian is ipocrita
hypocrite in Latin is hypocrita
hypocrite in Norwegian is hykler
hypocrite in Swedish is hycklare, skrymtare

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