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Quotes About Insincerity

Sentimentalismo? ¿Romanticismo? Si habla en serio... ¿Por qué dudo de ella? Acaso sea que es muy sensible y la gente hipersensible es falsa cuando los demás dudan de ellos? vacilan. Y dan la impresión de ser insinceros.
~ Anais Nin
Fine, he repeated, and I wondered why it was I kept coming back to this, again and again, a word that you said when someone asked how you were but didn't really care to know the truth.
~ Sarah Dessen
I am sure you were sincere. Not insincere. True insincerity is hard to find.
~ Saul Bellow
Their smiles never lit up their eyes, and
~ John Connolly
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
A visionary-minded adopts the approach to intuition, and unity at all costs, within society than the detritus of insular that leads towards the division and disunion of society. Indeed, such an attitude displays insincerity with the state.
~ Ehsan Sehgal
Such friendship and relationship, stay durable and stable if that holds love and sincerity; conversely, if that motivates the motive and insincerity, results in nothing than failure.
~ Ehsan Sehgal
A vile person also has a pleasant smile often on own face.
~ Anuj Somany
Many so-called motivational speakers or spiritual gurus who used to preach others that Don't Give Up have themselves given up their business after being cought of their wrongdoings or seeing that writing quote or speaking a lot through sessions on it is not profitable to them at all
~ Anuj Somany
Most of the praising especially at the topmost level are like scratching each other's back only.
~ Anuj Somany
When a fox gives the sermon, the wolves are largely there in the congregation to offer him a fake appreciation on his oration and quotation, but later on that audience only makes a big fun of him in his absence.
~ Anuj Somany
There are many selfish people who are extremely original, then they take those pure ideas and use them to raise themselves up, that is an insincere move.
~ Daniel Smith
Si disprezzano e tuttavia fanno a gara nell'adularsi a vicenda, e così vanno avanti a forza di inchini.
~ Marcus Aurelius
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
but we people of fashion know better things. We know self-love and insincerity to be useful and important qualities, the grand cement which binds our intercourse with each other. Born a superior race, we can bid truth and plain honesty depart; and, having dressed falsehood and guile in all the fascination of the senses, can bow down before the idol of our own creation.
~ Eliza Fenwick
Mrs. Stelling was not a loving, tender-hearted woman; she was a woman whose skirt sat well, who adjusted her waist and patted her curls with a preoccupied air when she inquired after your welfare.
~ George Eliot
I was anxious to please, even if I hated the recipient of my pleasing. My pleasee.
~ Marian Keyes
She could flatter also, though her very flattery had always in it something that was disagreeable.
~ Anthony Trollope
Noble gestures are always suspect. Each time, we regret having committed them. Something false about them, something theatrical, attitudinizing. It is true that we regret ignoble gestures almost as much.
~ Emil M. Cioran
No Kidding! Don't you hate it when a Mean Girl says something mean, and then adds, "Just kidding." Like that helps!
~ Bart King
Half the time she did things not simply, not for themselves; but to make people think this or that; perfect idiocy she knew for no one was ever for a second taken in.
~ Virginia Woolf
they will be tiresome company, having the show of wisdom without the reality.
~ Marshall McLuhan
thoes prepared to shed copious floods of crocodile tears . . .
~ Stephen King
Flattery is the worst and falsest way of showing our esteem
~ Jonathan Swift