Quotes About Insincerity

That's what show business is, sincere insincerity.

We say, "That's a very interesting idea," when we have no intention of taking the idea seriously.

Sometimes people who adamantly assert an opinion or view don't even hold it themselves.

It's a highly deceptive world, one that constantly asks you to comment but doesn't really care what you have to say.

It make one's mouth hurt to speak with such forced merriment.

Definitions from Mulla Do-Piaza Supporter: Someone who will say anything.

Some hypocrites and seeming mortified men, that held down their heads, were like the little images that they place in the very bowing of the vaults of churches, that look as if they held up the church, but are but puppets.

Owen had apologized for his harsh words, but the contrition felt hollow, because so were his feelings.

I don't really like you, but I'm so good at acting as if I do that it's basically the same thing.

Three things I hate about life. Fakes, people that pretend to care, and just people.

You are being a two-faced bi..., you know that?

If being two-faced is an art form, I couldn't count how many fu..ing artists I'd know.

Don't trust the man who always keeps smiling.

One has to be insincere and promise something which you cannot fulfill. So you either have to be a fool who does not understand what you are promising, or deliberately be lying.

How inexpressible is the meanness of being a hypocrite! how horrible is it to be a mischievous and malignant hypocrite.

Never be sincere - sincerity is the death of writing.

They so wanted it to be simple, believers. It is what is! they cried, sneering at the possibility of other eyes, other truths, overlooking their own outrageous presumption. It says what it says, spoken with a conviction that was itself insincerity. They ridiculed questions, for fear it would make their ignorance plain. Then they dared call themselves open.

They so wanted it to be simple, believers. "It is what is!" they cried, sneering at the possibility of other eyes, other truths, overlooking their own outrageous presumption. "It says what it says," spoken with a conviction that was itself insincerity. They ridiculed questions, for fear it would make their ignorance plain. Then they dared call themselves "open.

Every inflection and every gesture a lie, every smile a grimace.

I am always saying "Glad to've 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.

Grand. There's a word I really hate. It's a phony. I could puke every time I hear it.

He was like Pinocchio. A man made of wood, mimicking humanity. Shiny and smiling and fake. And if you cut into him you'd see rings. Circles of deceit and scheming and justification. It's what he was made of. That hadn't changed.

Fake people will wish you the best, just as long as that best benefits them.

Fake people are like pennies, two-faced and worthless.