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Quotes About Insincerity

Happiness was a term of hypocrisy used to bluff other people.
~ lawrence d h iv
No podía encontrar satisfacción duradera en la compañía de una persona que a la ignorancia unía la insinceridad.
~ Jane Austen
The mimicry of passion is the most intolerable of all poses.
~ Oscar Wilde
La insinceridad es un método con que multiplicar nuestras personalidades
~ Oscar Wilde
Very good, I said coldly. In that case, tinkerty tonk. And I meant it to sting.
~ P. G. Wodehouse
One is sincere and the other insincere. One comes from the heart out; the other from the teeth out. One is unselfish; the other selfish. One is universally admired; the other universally condemned.
~ Dale Carnegie
affectation.
~ Dan Simmons
Neredeyse iÅŸitilir biçimde, Nas?l bu kadar ikiyüzlü olabiliyorsun? dedim, Her ne kadar yetinmeye çal??san da kurtulmak için can? gönülden dua ettiÄŸin bu duruma ÅŸükran duyarm?? gibi yap?yorsun?
~ Daniel Defoe
Language and words for psychopaths are only word deep; there is no emotional colouring behind it. A psychopath can use a word like, 'I love you' but it means nothing more to him than if he said, 'I'll have a cup of coffee.'
~ Robert D. Hare
I have noticed that the Christianity of a certain class of respectable people begins when they open their prayer-books at eleven o'clock on Sunday morning, and ends when they shut them up again at one o'clock on Sunday afternoon. Nothing so astonishes and insults Christians of this sort as reminding them of their Christianity on a week-day.
~ Wilkie Collins
It's like you always have to put on a happy face, be the phony baloney, and I'm so not that. I never was that I'll never be that. That is part of the business that I don't like. Maybe that will always keep me an outsider, I don't know. But that's fine.
~ Chloe Sevigny
They are the affectation of affectation.
~ Henry Fielding
Hypocrisy is the outside of cynicism.
~ Mason Cooley
I always try to give credit whenever credit is doo doo even thought I really don't give a crap!
~ Unknown
There are two reasons why a person does something, one that sounds good and the real one.
~ Unknown
All the lousy little poets coming around trying to sound like Charles Manson.
~ Leonard Cohen
Chess problems demand from the composer the same virtues that characterize all worthwhile art: originality, invention, conciseness, harmony, complexity, and splendid insincerity
~ Vladimir Nabokov
Come on, come on; you are pictures out of doors, Bells in your parlours, wild cats in your kitchens, Saints in your injuries, devils being offended, Players in your housewifery, and housewives in your beds.
~ William Shakespeare
I actually shivered at the insincerity that gripped me as I spoke these words: their falseness was shameful. I was sure my coolness would return. I'd just been caught with my guard down. But at the moment I was in shambles. Walking along the deck (adopting my old casual swagger), I jollied up the troops with small talk, put on a frozen grin, and kept murmuring to myself with rhythmic fatuity: You love the marine Corps, it's a terrific war, you love the Marine Corps, it's a terrific war...
~ William Styron
Los lambiscones se esmeran como putas menopáusicas para hacerte creer que son muy útiles.
~ Xavier Velasco
I had become a perfect fake human, saying the stupid and pointless things that humans say to each other all day long.
~ Jeff Lindsay
Marriage always demands the greatest understanding of the art of insincerity possible between two human beings.
~ Vicki Baum
Marriage always demands the finest arts of insincerity possible between two human beings.
~ Vicki Baum
Hypocrisy is nothing, in fact, but a horrible hopefulness.
~ Victor Hugo