Quotes About Insincerity

Fake people are like mirrors, you can see right through them.

I am always saying 'Glad to have 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.

Patta's expression seemed cordial enough, though from past experience Brunetti knew this was meaningless: vipers liked to bask on rocks in the sunshine, did they not?

Some people are like fake flowers, appear beautiful from a distance but when you go near, you realize how useless they are.

Halloween is over and people are still being fake...

The people who applaud the loudest, Lucrezia notes, are the ones who talked through the performance.

In vain the young man gave him details of all his obscenities with his women, M. de Charlus was only struck by how little they amounted to. For that matter that was not only the result of insincerity, for nothing is more limited than vice. In that sense one can really use a common expression and say that one is always turning in the same vicious circle.

Samuel, she said, you're the most contentious man this world has ever seen. Yes, Mother. Don't agree with me all the time. It hints of insincerity. Speak up for yourself.

I hate it when someone is only nice because they want something.

You're baloney without the mayo.

You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a fruit fly and still have room enough for three caraway seeds and a producer's heart.

Quizá sea, después de todo, el más hipócrita, ya que no hace nada por zafarse.

The social kiss is an exchange of insincerity between two combatants on the field of social advancement. It places hygiene before affection and condescension before all else.

I knew Amena well enough by now to recognize she was feigning polite interest to disguise horrified interest.)

Thank you for nothing.

There is nothing I detest so much as the contortions of these great time-and-lip servers, these affable dispensers of meaningless embraces, these obliging utterers of empty words, who view every one in civilities

Cruelty has a polite mask of hypocrisy. The more deceitful the person, the more polite his tone.

Sorry, Mom, I've got a new phrase. When you can't rise above, sink below—and drag them all down with you. "I'm really sorry, ma'am," I say, amping up the sincerity in my voice. "It's just that your personality is so flat and lifeless, I mistook you for the table.

Tears that but form gems on sleeves must come, I think, from an insincere heart, for mine, though I seek to repress them, gush forth in torrents.

But people almost never say, "Die!", Paltry prudent, hypocrites.

Nos relacionábamos despreciándonos mutuamente y volviéndonos cada vez más triviales; si esto es lo que el mundo llama «amistad», entonces no hay duda de que eramos amigos.

I am convinced that human life is filled with many pure, happy, serene examples of insincerity, truly splendid of their kind.

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.

The first thing God does is forcibly remove any insincerity, pride, and vanity from my life. And the Holy Spirit reveals to me that God loved me not because I was lovable, but because it was His nature to do so.