Top 83 Quotes About Insincerity
#1. 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
#2. when companies are not transparent, communities fear that such secrecy covers insincerity, dishonesty, and trickiness. Transparency
Luc Zandvliet
#3. 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
#4. There are many kinds of sincerity and insincerity. When you say 'thank you' for the salt, do you mean what you say ? No. When you say 'the world is round,' do you mean what you say ? No. It is true, but you don't mean it
G.K. Chesterton
#5. One element of maturity is the realization that we don't get away with anything. Any advantage gained or convenience taken, any private procrastination or insincerity, no matter how subtle or quick in passing, is paid for.
Hugh Prather
#6. The true artist and the sane collector never will tolerate insincerity and impudence.
Walter J. Phillips
#7. Normally, anything done in the name of 'the kids' strikes me as either slightly sentimental or faintly sinister - that redolence of moral blackmail that adheres to certain charitable appeals and certain kinds of politician. (Not for nothing is baby-kissing the synonym for public insincerity.)
Christopher Hitchens
#8. Insincerity had never come easily to her, but good manners required it on occasion, even if a superhuman effort was needed.
Alexander McCall Smith
#9. This is the age of insincerity. The movies had the misfortune to come along in the twentieth century, and because they appeal to the masses there can be no sincerity in them.
Lionel Barrymore
#10. I am afraid of people with too much charm. They devour you. In the end you are made a sacrifice to the exercise of their fascinating gift and their insincerity.
W. Somerset Maugham
#12. Where the questions of religion are concerned people are guilty of every possible kind of insincerity and intellectual misdemeanor.
Sigmund Freud
#13. Do not treat others as you would not like to be treated' frees one from hypocrisy. 'Treat others as you would like to be treated' enslaves one with insincerity.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
#14. I'll be there for you, as long as it works for me. I play a game, its called insincerity.
Trent Reznor
#15. There is but one thing without honor, smitten with eternal barrenness, inability to do or to be,-insincerity, unbelief.
Thomas Carlyle
#16. I felt the basic insincerity of what she had said. It made me uneasy, as though the whole evening had been a trick of some sort to extract a contributory emotion from me.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#17. Man is nothing but insincerity, falsehood, and hypocrisy, both in regard to himself and in regard to others. He does not wish that he should be told the truth, he shuns saying it to others; and all these moods, so inconsistent with justice and reason, have their roots in his heart.
Blaise Pascal
#18. Insincerity is always weakness; sincerity even in error is strength.
George Henry Lewes
#19. [T]he reason why Shakespeare and Pushkin were great writers was because from the time when they were boys they stood like policemen over their thoughts and didn't allow one small insincerity to creep in.
Michael D. O'Brien
#20. The insincerity of man-all men are liars, partial or hiders of facts, half tellers of truths, shirks, moral sneaks. When a merely honest man appears he is a comet-his fame is eternal-needs no genius, no talent-mere honesty
Mark Twain
#21. He was angry with himself for being young and the prey of restless foolish impulses, angry also with the change of fortune which was reshaping the world about him into a vision of squalor and insincerity. Yet his anger lent nothing to the vision.
James Joyce
#22. The damnable thing about bad art is that the insincerity which lies at its roots is not perceived by the artist himself.
Quentin Bell
#23. Of all the evil spirits abroad at this hour in the world, insincerity is the most dangerous.
James Anthony Froude
#24. I like the enthusiasm but not the insincerity of Los Angeles.
Brenda Blethyn
#25. 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
#26. God requires to be represented by a fiery Church ... two things are intolerable to Him-insincerity and lukewarmness.
Edward McKendree Bounds
#27. What matters in Politics is what men actually do - sincerity is no excuse for acting unpolitically, and insincerity may be channelled by politics into good results.
Bernard Crick
#28. That's what show business is, sincere insincerity.
Benny Hill
#29. If you want the Kingdom speeded, go out and speed it yourselves. Only obedience rationalizes prayer. Only Missions can redeem your intercessions from insincerity.
William Carey
#30. Insincerity in a man's own heart must make all his enjoyments, all that concerns him, unreal; so that his whole life must seem like a merely dramatic representation.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
#31. I am convinced that human life is filled with many pure, happy, serene examples of insincerity, truly splendid of their kind-of people deceiving one another without (strangely enough) any wounds being inflicted, of people who seem unaware even that they are deceiving one another.
Osamu Dazai
#32. The greatest enemy of clear language is insincerity.
George Orwell
#33. Is insincerity such a terrible thing? I think not. It is merely a method by which we can multiply our personalities.
Oscar Wilde
#35. Chess problems demand from the composer the same virtues that characterize all worthwhile art: originality, invention, conciseness, harmony, complexity, and splendid insincerity
Vladimir Nabokov
#36. The nearer emotional life approaches to hysteria, to continual outward show, the less genuine it becomes. Feeling becomes equated with vehemence of expression, so that insincerity becomes permanent.
Anthony Daniels
#37. Language rarely lies. It can reveal the insincerity of a writer's claims simply through a grating adjective or an inflated phrase. We come upon a frenzy of words and suspect it hides a paucity of feeling.
Irving Howe
#38. Expressing one's reality in words, as truthful as they might be, goads one to insincerity.
Orhan Pamuk
#39. Smiling away your troubles requires a clear conscience that harbors no insincerity.
Paramahansa Yogananda
#40. We have nothing to fear but insincerity.
Qiu Miaojin
#41. There is, especially in the American media, a deep belief that insincerity is better than no sincerity at all.
Christopher Hitchens
#42. Architecture, like dress, is an exercise in good manners, and good manners involve the habit of skillful insincerity - the habit of saying "good morning" to those whose mornings you would rather blight, and of passing the butter to those you would rather starve.
Roger Scruton
#43. Your insincerity is natural and in the order of things. If people agreed together and suddenly became sincere,
Anton Chekhov
#44. Change does not fail to occur because of insincerity. The heart patient is not insincere about his wish to keep living, even as he reaches for another cigarette. Change fails to occur because we mean both things. It fails to occur because we are a living contradiction.
Robert Kegan
#45. When men think and believe in one set of symbols and act in ways which are contrary to their professed and conscious ideas, confusion and insincerity are bound to result.
John Dewey
#46. It is not honest inquiry that makes anarchy; but it is error, insincerity, half belief and untruth that make it.
Thomas Carlyle
#47. Insincerity from the heart. It's just another component of politics as usual.
Congressman X
#48. Instead of safeguarding truth and honesty, the state then tends to become a major source of insincerity and mendacity.
Hans F. Sennholz
#49. There are many justifications of silence; there can be none of insincerity.
George Henry Lewes
#50. One of my pet theories is that readers have built-in BS detectors that enable them to recognize insincerity in writers. David [Halberstam] was sincerity to the core. He believed in what he wrote, and that conviction conveyed itself to readers.
Jonathan Yardley
#51. Hypocrisy is saying we believe something, then living as if we didn't. Hypocrisy is preaching and not practicing. It says do as I say not as I do. It's insincerity wearing a mask of sincerity.
Stephen Altrogge
#52. The classical artist can be recognized by his sincerity, the romantic by his laborious insincerity.
Charles Peguy
#53. 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
#54. The basis of insincerity is the idealized image we hold of ourselves and wish to impose on others.
Anais Nin
#55. Every single instance of a friend's insincerity increases our dependence on the efficacy of money.
William Shenstone
#56. Today, as in Paul's day, the preaching of Christ is done both out of love for the Lord and also out of contention and insincerity.
Paul Silway
#57. Insincerity was taxing once you'd breathed the refreshing air of artless candor.
Penny Reid
#58. Never value the advantages derived from anything involving breach of faith, loss of self-respect, hatred, suspicion, or execration of others, insincerity, or the desire for something which has to be veiled and curtained.
Marcus Aurelius
#59. Self-interest, fear of physical pain, drove him to that grotesque act of self-abasement. Its insincerity was clearly to be seen. He ceases to be a wrongdoer. He ceases also to be a creature capable of moral choice.
Anthony Burgess
#60. The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns, as it were, instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink.
George Orwell
#61. Marriage always demands the greatest understanding of the art of insincerity possible between two human beings.
Vicki Baum
#62. But in my life, in my personality, there is an essence of falseness and insincerity. A thin, fine vapor of fraud hangs always over me and dampens and injures some things in me that I value.
Mary MacLane
#63. The expression Gone To The Dogs needs to be changed to Gone To Humans Without a Conscience
Amit Abraham
#64. 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
#65. 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
#66. Being nice merely to be liked in return nullifies the point.
Criss Jami
#67. Even his conversation was, as it were, a spoken part.
T.H. White
#69. An insincere critic of a sincere person never wins.
Criss Jami
#70. When you're appeasing too much, you might be egotistically over-estimating everyone's need for your approval.
Criss Jami
#71. 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
#72. You can't let the truth bring out the worst and let it get the best of you.
Criss Jami
#73. The real loneliness is living among all these kind people who only ask one to pretend!
Edith Wharton
#74. 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
#75. 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
#76. 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
#77. A sign of a lover of wisdom is his delight in not running his mouth about things he doesn't know.
Criss Jami
#78. I had trouble listening to adults who didn't really mean anything that they said; it was as if their language poured into my ears only to drain right out a little spigot in the back of my head.
Reif Larsen
#79. True cynics kill themselves. The rest are posers, trying to use clever sarcasm and snarky remarks to hide insecurity and the fear that if they put themselves out there, they will fail.
Jewel
#80. Avoid that romantic trap: saying more than you feel, forcing yourself to feel more than you've said!
Natalie Clifford Barney
#81. You've always lived a life of pretense, not a real life
a simulated existence, not a genuine existence. Everything about you, everything you are, has always been pretense, never genuine, never real.
Thomas Bernhard
#83. Miss Bingley's congratulations to her brother, on his approaching marriage, were all that was affectionate and insincere.
Jane Austen
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