a manufactured interest has no staying quality - especially if it involves any hard work. — Margaret Deland 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
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
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
One of the biggest lessons I've learned in my life is to never say somethin you don't mean... that can cause a… — Anonymous 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… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Is insincerity such a terrible thing? I think not. It is merely a method by which we can multiply our personalities. Such,” — Oscar Wilde 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
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
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
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
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
You've always lived a life of pretense, not a real life-- a simulated existence, not a genuine existence. Everything about you, everything… — Thomas Bernhard Copy Share Image
One element of maturity is the realization that we don't get away with anything. Any advantage gained or convenience taken, any private… — Hugh Prather 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
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
In England Giordano Bruno had given lectures on the plurality of worlds, and in that country had written, in Italian, his most… — John William Draper Copy Share Image
A great emotion is too selfish ; it takes into itself all the blood of the spirit, and the congestion leaves the… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
The absolutist lays down the law, but the relativist hears only roaring and bawling. Or, when the relativist voice, as it is… — Simon Blackburn Copy Share Image
The Great Man's sincerity is of the kind he cannot speak of, is not conscious of: nay, I suppose, he is conscious… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
If I try to use human influence strategies and tactics of how to get other people to do what I want, to… — Anonymous 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
The true artist and the sane collector never will tolerate insincerity and impudence. — Walter J. Phillips Copy Share Image
An apology is an expression of regret where the voice rarely matches the words. — Vikrant Parsai Copy Share Image
The real loneliness is living among all these kind people who only ask one to pretend! — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
Insincerity is always weakness; sincerity even in error is strength. — George Henry Lewes Copy Share Image
I am afraid of people with too much charm. They devour you. In the end you are made a sacrifice to the… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“I found this hardly comforting, and wondered if there was not some virtue in the quality of insincerity.” — Daphne du Maurier Copy Share Image
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