George Bernard Shaw Quotes on Hypocrisy
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I'm only a beer teetotaler, not a champagne teetotaler. I don't like beer.
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Hell is the home of honor, duty, justice, and the rest of the seven deadly virtues. All the wickedness on earth is done in their name: where else but in hell should they have their reward?
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I was a hypocrite; and it served me right to be sent to heaven.
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What is his religion? An excuse for hating ME. What is his law? An excuse for hanging YOU. What is his morality? Gentility! an excuse for consuming without producing. What is his art? An excuse for gloating over pictures of slaughter. What are his politics? Either the worship of a despot because a despot can kill, or parliamentary cockfighting.
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[between his teeth] Goon. Talk politics, you idiots: nothing sounds more respectable. Keep it up, I tell you.
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Self-sacrifice enables us to sacrifice other people without blushing.
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What a man believes may be ascertained, not from his creed, but from the assumptions on which he habitually acts.
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The faults of the burglar are the qualities of the financier: the manners and habits of a duke would cost a city clerk his situation.
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The nauseous sham goodfellowship our democratic public men get up for shop use.