Quotes About Insincerity

I have been able to sniff out a phony.

Sycophancy can be seen by blinds and heard by deafs

Well, youth is the period of assumed personalities and disguises. It is the time of the sincerely insincere.

A single moment spent in a business meeting or at a pub is more than enough to reveal the basic human truth that we are all faking it most of the time. We congratulate a rival on a triumph when actually we are choking on spite. We are cordial and attentive to crashing bores.

He hated the false intimacy, the insincere concern.

Verity grimaced, wondering whether she could stomach a whole evening of Barbara Eager's forced jollity

She was doing that thing some people do when they act nice and chipper and interested, while just below the surface they're thinking really mean thoughts, and you can never call them on it because they'd just accuse you of being paranoid.

Clement, usually a fluent speaker in any situation, could hear his voice assuming a pompous and affected tone, not unlike that which many actors use (wrongly in Clement's view) when playing Polonius.

It was all that vain, egotistical insincerity of self-reproach. By blaming ourselves we take away the right of others to do the same

What meaning has a compliment if one hears it night and day.

He realized...that the loudest are the least sincere, that arrogance is a quality of the ignorant, and that flatterers tend to be vicious.

Compliments and flattery oftenest excite my contempt by the pretension they imply; for who is he that assumes to flatter me? To compliment often implies an assumption of superiority in the complimenter. It is, in fact, a subtle detraction.

Constant, indiscriminate approval devalues because it is so predictable.

When you say that you agree to a thing in principle, you mean that you have not the slightest intention of carrying it out.

Hypocrite - mouth one way, belly 'nother way.

This is the age of insincerity. The movies had the misfortune to come along in the twentieth century, and because they appeal to the masses there can be no sincerity in them.

It's hard to hate my prep team. They're such total idiots." - Katniss.

I am never bothered by normal people; it is the bull***tter in the "intellectual" profession who bothers me.

We are a nation of fence-sitters, face-flatterers and back-biters.

Your skin is a waste of space because there's no heart inside of you

I am surrounded by flatterers and fools.

With faint praises one another damn.

Affected simplicity is refined imposture.

Of all the evil spirits abroad at this hour in the world, insincerity is the most dangerous.