Quotes About Insincerity

Superficial.ism is a religion. It's simply hypocrisy...

Everything he did was at least partial and often total bullshit" (402).

Mrs. Neverbody's Recipe for Making Crocodile Tears To a slice of hanky-panky Add some artificial cranky. Moisten well with canned boo-hoo. Flavor with a spoof or two. Drip this slowly—as it falls Roll it into little bawls. If you're careful, while they're cooling You can spread on only-fooling. (This recipe is not worthwhile Unless you are a crocodile.)

Tak ada orang yang tak suka pada pujian. Kalau orang merasa terhina karena dipuji, tandanya orang itu berhati culas.

Flattery will get you nowhere

A flatterer has water in one hand and fire in the other.

A hypocrite's hatred is hidden behind flattering words. #qotd #quoteoftheday

Praise to the face is open disgrace

I like America; I enjoy being there. Some people can't stand the insincerity - I love the waiter asking me how my day has been, the can-do culture there. I love the fact that again, you are visible in America. You turn the TV on, there are black politicians, black policemen, black soldiers.

You can tell when someone is just trying to use you. It becomes just someone who's hanging around. Whenever someone sucks up to me, it never goes anywhere because I'm too boring a guy.

Mindenki nagyon barátságosan viselkedett vele szemben, és senki sem volt hozzá igazán kedves; mindenki szóba állt vele, és mindenki csak semmiségeket mondott neki.

I don't really like them, either (but I pretend I do).

I'd always hated cocktail parties. And this one was worse than most. Overdressed pseudo–people smiled plastic smiles, told one–upmanship stories with phony self–deprecation, then half–listened with painted–on sincerity to the one–upmanship rebuttals. Mannequins. Robots. Androids. Pseudo–people laboring in the vineyards of pseudo–intellectualism to gather the bitter grapes of self–aggrandizement.

They are the most disagreeable of people. … Their insincerity? Can you not feel a sense of disgust at the arrogant presumption of superiority of these people? Superiority of intellect! Then, when it comes to practice, down they fall with a wallop not only to the level of ordinary human beings but to a level which is even far below the average.

Very full of cant phrases

That Hollywood thing, where everybody hugs and kisses everybody else - I always stiffen. It's an assumed familiarity. It's phony.

To show an unfelt sorrow is an office Which the false man does easy.

Flatterers and men of learning do not accord well with each other.

The world is grown so full of dissimulation and compliment, that men's words are hardly any signification of their thoughts.

The men that is now is only all palaver and what they can get out of you.

Flattery is false money, which would not be current were it not for our vanity.

I wasn't sure which I appreciated less—the insincere concern or the genuine indifference.

The mimicry of passion is the most intolerable of all poses.

nothing in them but tittering jeering emptiness.