Quotes About Insincerity

All affectation; 'tis my perfect scorn; Object of my implacable disgust

He might be quick to smile and adept at handing out compliments, but his smile never reached his eyes.

There is but one thing without honor, smitten with eternal barrenness, inability to do or to be,-insincerity, unbelief.

Ah, lips that say one thing, while the heart thinks another

Every word was a cheat. Every thought and feeling was false. I played the game. Everything I touched, I cheapened.

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.

As in any insincere relationship, each man responded to shadows.

If you want the Kingdom speeded, go out and speed it yourselves. Only obedience rationalizes prayer. Only Missions can redeem your intercessions from insincerity.

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

It was always the same: everywhere there were the hard-hearted who pretended an interest, who began a conversation and then, their cadging over, walked away.

hank you, Miss Midget, I mean Midge, for that beautiful tuba playing," lied Mr Grave. It had been truly awful. Like a hippopotamus farting.

Don't bother. You never mean it anyway, not really

Bye, Skimmer. Thanks for breakfast." "You're welcome." Translation: Choke on it, bitch. 

I have nothing but respect for you -- and not much of that.

The boy will remain a son and never become a father. He will be forgotten by the crowd once his blood is rinsed clean from the ground; his sister will think of him but soon she will forget him, too. He will live on only in Han's memory, a child punished not for his own insincerity but someone else's disbelief.

Talking to him is rather like talking to a school play.

Politeness is the most acceptable hypocrisy

The true hypocrite is the one who ceases to perceive his deception, the one who lies with sincerity.

What, we may well ask, is there left to live for? Why get out of bed? For this dreary round of amusing insincerity? This filthy bourgeois society that the Aristotelians have foisted upon us? No, we may still choose to live like gods, like poets. Which brings us down to dancing. Yes," he said, turning to Malone, "that is all that's left when love has gone.

Smiling away your troubles requires a clear conscience that harbors no insincerity.

A hypocrite is a person who--but who isn't

The true hypocrite is the one who ceases to perceive his deception, the one who lies with sincerity.

He's being sarcastic. I hate when people are sarcastic. It's so cheap.

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.