(20 quotes found)
“If I were two faced, would I be wearing this one?”
Abraham Lincoln
“Although volume upon volume is written to prove slavery a very good thing, we never hear of the man who wishes to take the good of it by being a slave himself”
“How inexpressible is the meanness of being a hypocrite! how horrible is it to be a mischievous and malignant hypocrite.”
Voltaire
“How I like the boldness of the English, how I like the people who say what they think!”
“I hate vulgar realism in literature. The man who could call a spade a spade should be compelled to use one. It is the only thing he is fit for.”
Oscar Wilde
“Very often, say what you will, a knave is only a fool.”
“But what is the good of friendship if one cannot say exactly what one means? Anybody can say charming things and try to please and to flatter, but a true friend always says unpleasant things, and does not mind giving pain. Indeed, if he is a really true friend he prefers it, for he knows that then he is doing good.”
“Insist on yourself; Never imitate... Every Great man is unique.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“A man who moralizes is usually a hypocrite, and a woman who moralizes is invariably plain”
“I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being good all the time. That would be hypocrisy.”
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