There are many justifications of silence; there can be none of insincerity. — George Henry Lewes Copy Share Image
The smiles that encourage severity of judgment hide malice and insincerity. — Johann Kaspar Lavater Copy Share Image
“I am sure you were sincere. Not insincere. True insincerity is hard to find.” — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
The words that I say and things that I do are different than what I mean.~~~ — Francine Chiar Copy Share Image
Do good because you want to; because it's from your heart. Don't wait for people's compliments to motivate you. That leads to… — Mufti Ismail Menk Copy Share Image
There is but one thing without honor, smitten with eternal barrenness, inability to do or to be,-insincerity, unbelief. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
The most exhausting thing in life, I have discovered, is being insincere. That is why so much social life is exhausting; one… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh Copy Share Image
Every single instance of a friend's insincerity increases our dependence on the efficacy of money. — William Shenstone Copy Share Image
God requires to be represented by a fiery Church... two things are intolerable to Him-insincerity and lukewarmness. — Edward McKendree Bounds Copy Share Image
It is a mark of insincerity of purpose to spend one's time in looking for the sacred Emperor in the low-class tea… — Ernest Bramah Copy Share Image
Cheap Hearts can be bought with money and lies but the best Heart deserves nothing but Truth and Love. — Terry Mark Copy Share Image
What people call insincerity is simply a method by which we can multiply our personalities. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Change does not fail to occur because of insincerity. The heart patient is not insincere about his wish to keep living, even… — Robert Kegan Copy Share Image
A true leader knows how to leads his people, knows their needs, wants, the one who humbles himself and the one who… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Man is nothing but insincerity, falsehood, and hypocrisy, both in regard to himself and in regard to others. He does not wish… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
I had trouble listening to adults who didn't really mean anything that they said; it was as if their language poured into… — Reif Larsen Copy Share Image
The inflated style is itself a kind of euphemism. A mass of Latin words falls upon the facts like soft snow, blurring… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
One of my pet theories is that readers have built-in BS detectors that enable them to recognize insincerity in writers. David [Halberstam]… — Jonathan Yardley Copy Share Image
The nearer emotional life approaches to hysteria, to continual outward show, the less genuine it becomes. Feeling becomes equated with vehemence of… — Anthony Daniels Copy Share Image
Language rarely lies. It can reveal the insincerity of a writer's claims simply through a grating adjective or an inflated phrase. We… — Irving Howe Copy Share Image
A mass of Latin words falls upon the facts like soft snow, blurring the outline and covering up all the details. The… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
I don't even know in American educational history classes how much of D-Day, World War II, all of that is taught versus… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
We must put up with our clothes as they are - they have their reason for existing. They are on us to… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The inconsistency of the institution of domestic slavery with the principles of the Declaration of Independence was seen and lamented . .… — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
No one can write a best-seller by taking thought. The slightest touch of insincerity blurs its appeal. The writer who keeps his… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
The psychological impotence of our enraged generation must be traced to the overwhelming accusation of insincerity which every man and woman has… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
I love to read the dedications of old books written in monarchies for they invariably honor some (usually insignificant) knight or duke… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
There are people who balk at small civilities on account of their manifest insincerity. ... It is better and more logical to… — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
“It's not unfortunate that people aren't genuine; what's unfortunate is that insincere people try to act sincere and in doing so, mislead… — C. JoyBell C Copy Share Image
An apology is an expression of regret where the voice rarely matches the words. — Vikrant Parsai Copy Share Image
Insincerity is merely a method by which we can multiply our personalities — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Insincerity is always weakness; sincerity even in error is strength. — George Henry Lewes Copy Share Image