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Quotes About Insincere

Must simplicity and humanity go under in the interest of progress? What is the most important component of civilization - is it human or mechanical? Must thought processes become involved and insincere? Must the class-struggle warp those who are involved in it?
~ Peter Abrahams
Professionally, it would be a logical choice, but my personal view is that he is the most insincere man I know in football
~ Tony Cascarino
It is a poor critic who says that a lack of effect on them implies all others are insincere in their love.
~ Kieron Gillen
I do not believe the fable that men read travel books to escape from reality: they read to escape into it, from a crazy wonderland of armaments, cant, political speeches at once insincere and illiterate, propaganda, and social injustice which the lunacy of humanity has constructed over a period of years.
~ Alex Comfort
The bad poet is a toady mimicking nature.
~ Edward Dahlberg
I have always felt loneliest in the presence of other people. People I can't connect with. People I feel unseen by. People who make me feel insincere or uncomfortable. For me, loneliness comes from a sense of missing something. I never miss anything when I'm alone.
~ Kate Christensen
Twas grief enough to think mankind All hollow, servile, insincere; But worse to trust to my own mind And find the same corruption there
~ Emily Bronte
But even though there were plenty of teeth in the grin, there was no heart.
~ Eoin Colfer
There were the meaningless greetings the humans called formalities: insincere inquiries into the state of health, nebulous benedictions and hopes for past well-being; all compensations for the lack of human Mediators.
~ Larry Niven
A faith that does not result in activity of any kind is a dead faith; it is empty, worthless, insincere.
~ Derek Prince
Dreadfully insincere,' said Angus. 'Psychopaths - every one of them. Show me a cat, Domenica, and I'll show you a psychopath. Textbook examples.
~ Alexander McCall Smith
Munafik adalah berprasangka tapi sok suci.
~ Ambrose Bierce
Fine...a word that you said when someone asked how you were but didn't really care to know the truth.
~ Sarah Dessen
You seem artful at those pretences, Which flatter common folk and princes.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
A liar doesn't care about others since it is insincere and unfaithful, even with its own life; in this context, it is a grave sentence.
~ Ehsan Sehgal
time making the gesture perfunctory
~ Sharon Kay Penman
What monster have we here? A great Deed at this hour of day? A great just deed -- and not for pay? Absurd -- or insincere?
~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Now let us touch on the vice of Flattery, which comes not gladly from the heart, but from fear or greed. Flattery is generally insincere praise. Flatterers be the Devil's nurses, who nourish his children with the milk of adulation.
~ Geoffrey Chaucer
outwardly nice but inwardly horrid.
~ Sara Shepard
It's a great bullshit test of any boss who says, "X is important." If she doesn't match that statement with resources, she's incompetent, insincere, or both.
~ Scott Berkun
They smile too much, but it's an ugly kind of smiling: it's not joy, it's pleading.
~ Ayn Rand
He deemed the Georgian "an insincere, masked dictator who plays with people.
~ Stephen Kotkin
I have a horrible capacity to be unctuous to people I want to impress.
~ Alexander Armstrong
Politics and governments -- they are more than I can understand. Present systems are corrupted by personal ambition. It is all so complicated and insincere. Conditions are much worse now than they were during the war. In 1914 we went into the fight without argument. We finished it with very little, but now, strangely enough, comes all the wrangling, the restrictions, the selfishness.
~ bernhardt sarah ii