Insincerity Quotes

Insincerity Quote of the day

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

The real loneliness is living among all these kind people who only ask one to pretend!

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.

One who enjoys finding errors will then start creating errors to find.

Insincerity is always weakness; sincerity even in error is strength.

That's what show business is, sincere insincerity.

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

I let him run on, this papier-maché Mephistopheles, and it seemed to me that if I tried I could poke my forefinger through him, and would find nothing inside but a little loose dirt, maybe.

I am afraid of people with too much charm. They devour you. In the end you are made a sacrifice to the exercise of their fascinating gift and their insincerity.

Instead of safeguarding truth and honesty, the state then tends to become a major source of insincerity and mendacity.

The great enemy of clear language is insincerity.

You can't let the truth bring out the worst and let it get the best of you.

Insincerity in a man's own heart must make all his enjoyments, all that concerns him, unreal; so that his whole life must seem like a merely dramatic representation.

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.

I'll be there for you, as long as it works for me. I play a game, its called insincerity.

Marriage always demands the greatest understanding of the art of insincerity possible between two human beings.

What matters in Politics is what men actually do - sincerity is no excuse for acting unpolitically, and insincerity may be channelled by politics into good results.

The damnable thing about bad art is that the insincerity which lies at its roots is not perceived by the artist himself.

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

Nothing is more disgraceful than insincerity.

When men think and believe in one set of symbols and act in ways which are contrary to their professed and conscious ideas, confusion and insincerity are bound to result.

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

The true artist and the sane collector never will tolerate insincerity and impudence.

I like the enthusiasm but not the insincerity of Los Angeles.

Every single instance of a friend's insincerity increases our dependence on the efficacy of money.

An insincere critic of a sincere person never wins.

The basis of insincerity is the idealized image we hold of ourselves and wish to impose on others.

Is insincerity such a terrible thing? I think not. It is merely a method by which we can multiply our personalities.

God requires to be represented by a fiery Church... two things are intolerable to Him-insincerity and lukewarmness.

The smiles that encourage severity of judgment hide malice and insincerity.

The classical artist can be recognized by his sincerity, the romantic by his laborious insincerity.

A sign of a lover of wisdom is his delight in not running his mouth about things he doesn't know.

Treat people like people. Beware of pity and patronization because in them, you can't see when you're unashamedly looking down on someone.

When you're appeasing too much, you might be egotistically over-estimating everyone's need for your approval.

I appreciate a book intended to be judged by its cover. The insincere readers are often weeded out while the sincere readers remain curious.

We none of us talk to people as we do behind their backs.

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.

Chess problems demand from the composer the same virtues that characterize all worthwhile art: originality, invention, conciseness, harmony, complexity, and splendid insincerity

It is not honest inquiry that makes anarchy; but it is error, insincerity, half belief and untruth that make it.

There are many justifications of silence; there can be none of insincerity.

Avoid that romantic trap: saying more than you feel, forcing yourself to feel more than you've said!

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.

Where the questions of religion are concerned people are guilty of every possible kind of insincerity and intellectual misdemeanor.

Miss Bingley's congratulations to her brother, on his approaching marriage, were all that was affectionate and insincere.

Being nice merely to be liked in return nullifies the point.

Do not treat others as you would not like to be treated' frees one from hypocrisy. 'Treat others as you would like to be treated' enslaves one with insincerity.

Even his conversation was, as it were, a spoken part.

The difficulty with humorists is that they will mix what they believe with what they don’t—whichever seems likelier to win an effect.

To hear how much of a great human being you were — even if you really weren’t — open your ears at your funeral.

A prophet is always underestimated, and part of what makes one a prophet is that he doesn't really mind it.