Insincerity Quotes
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Insincerity Quotes & Sayings
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A sign of a lover of wisdom is his delight in not running his mouth about things he doesn't know.
— Criss Jami
An insincere critic of a sincere person never wins.
— Criss Jami
The instant her voice broke off ceasing to compel my attention, my belief, I felt the basic insincerity of what she had said.
— F Scott Fitzgerald
The expression Gone To The Dogs needs to be changed to Gone To Humans Without a Conscience
— Amit Abraham
There are many justifications of silence; there can be none of insincerity.
— George Henry Lewes
The classical artist can be recognized by his sincerity, the romantic by his laborious insincerity.
— Charles Peguy
When you aren't sincere you need to pretend, and by pretending you end up believing yourself; that's the basic principle of every faith.
— Alberto Moravia
Instead of safeguarding truth and honesty, the state then tends to become a major source of insincerity and mendacity.
— Hans F. Sennholz
Every single instance of a friend's insincerity increases our dependence on the efficacy of money.
— William Shenstone
There is but one thing without honor, smitten with eternal barrenness, inability to do or to be,-insincerity, unbelief.
— Thomas Carlyle
Is insincerity such a terrible thing? I think not. It is merely a method by which we can multiply our personalities.
— Oscar Wilde
Where the questions of religion are concerned people are guilty of every possible kind of insincerity and intellectual misdemeanor.
— Sigmund Freud
It is not honest inquiry that makes anarchy; but it is error, insincerity, half belief and untruth that make it.
— Thomas Carlyle
To hear how much of a great human being you were - even if you really weren't - open your ears at your funeral.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Nothing is more disgraceful than insincerity.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
I am always saying "Glad to've met you" to somebody I'm not at all glad I met. If you want to stay alive, you have to say that stuff, though.
— J.D. Salinger
The difficulty with humorists is that they will mix what they believe with what they don't - whichever seems likelier to win an effect.
— John Updike
When you're appeasing too much, you might be egotistically over-estimating everyone's need for your approval.
— Criss Jami
The basis of insincerity is the idealized image we hold of ourselves and wish to impose on others.
— Anais Nin
There are only two kinds of faces: Sincere and insincere!
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
Insincerity had never come easily to her, but good manners required it on occasion, even if a superhuman effort was needed.
— Alexander McCall Smith
We none of us talk to people as we do behind their backs.
— Ivy Compton-Burnett
Marriage always demands the greatest understanding of the art of insincerity possible between two human beings.
— Vicki Baum
Expressing one's reality in words, as truthful as they might be, goads one to insincerity.
— Orhan Pamuk
It was all that vain, egotistical insincerity of self-reproach. By blaming ourselves we take away the right of others to do the same
— Irvine Welsh
Insincerity is always weakness; sincerity even in error is strength.
— George Henry Lewes
The real loneliness is living among all these kind people who only ask one to pretend!
— Edith Wharton
God requires to be represented by a fiery Church ... two things are intolerable to Him-insincerity and lukewarmness.
— Edward McKendree Bounds
I appreciate a book intended to be judged by its cover. The insincere readers are often weeded out while the sincere readers remain curious.
— Criss Jami
Your insincerity is natural and in the order of things. If people agreed together and suddenly became sincere,
— Anton Chekhov
Clothes are on us to expose us - to advertise what we wear them to conceal. They are a sign; a sign of insincerity; a sign of repressed vanity;
— Alex Myers
The damnable thing about bad art is that the insincerity which lies at its roots is not perceived by the artist himself.
— Quentin Bell
I'll be there for you, as long as it works for me. I play a game, its called insincerity.
— Trent Reznor
when companies are not transparent, communities fear that such secrecy covers insincerity, dishonesty, and trickiness. Transparency
— Luc Zandvliet
It is a mark of insincerity of purpose to spend one's time in looking for the sacred Emperor in the low-class tea-shops.
— Ernest Bramah
There is, especially in the American media, a deep belief that insincerity is better than no sincerity at all.
— Christopher Hitchens
The greatest enemy of clear language is insincerity.
— George Orwell
The true artist and the sane collector never will tolerate insincerity and impudence.
— Walter J. Phillips
That's what show business is, sincere insincerity.
— Benny Hill
Men seek a great deal, but fatally close, albeit very different, is one's pride in proving oneself right with one's zeal for finding the truth.
— Criss Jami
I like the enthusiasm but not the insincerity of Los Angeles.
— Brenda Blethyn
Miss Bingley's congratulations to her brother, on his approaching marriage, were all that was affectionate and insincere.
— Jane Austen
The smiles that encourage severity of judgment hide malice and insincerity.
— Johann Kaspar Lavater
Smiling away your troubles requires a clear conscience that harbors no insincerity.
— Paramahansa Yogananda
We have nothing to fear but insincerity.
— Qiu Miaojin
Of all the evil spirits abroad at this hour in the world, insincerity is the most dangerous.
— James Anthony Froude
Avoid that romantic trap: saying more than you feel, forcing yourself to feel more than you've said!
— Natalie Clifford Barney