Insincerity Quote by George Henry Lewes Download Open image “There are many justifications of silence; there can be none of insincerity.” — George Henry Lewes ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.3 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Insincerity Justification Silence Truth
Silence is an argument in favor of the status quo. A refusal to address an inequity is a strategy for maintaining that inequity. — PZ Myers Copy Share Image
Silence is the absolute core of reality, the inner nature of all that is. — Swami Premodaya Copy Share Image
Silence is letting what there is be what it is. In that sense it has to do profoundly with God: the silence of simply… — Rowan Williams Copy Share Image
Silence can be intimidating, sometimes provocative, sometimes a form of resistance because it dislocates. — Elia Suleiman Copy Share Image
Silence is hereby outlawed. Silence breeds independent thought, which in turn breeds dissent. — Frank Beddor Copy Share Image
Silence is an endangered quantity in our time... Silence, embraced, stuns with its presence, its pregnant reality—a reality that does not negate reason and… — Krista Tippett Copy Share Image
Silence is a virtue in those who are deficient in understanding. — Dominique Bouhours Copy Share Image
Silence is the safest response for all the contradiction that arises from impertinence, vulgarity, or envy. — Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann Copy Share Image
Silence is compliance, and not saying anything means you are okay with what is going on. — Porsha Williams Copy Share Image
Heart and Brain are the two lords of life. In the metaphors of ordinary speech and in the stricter language of science, we use… — George Henry Lewes Copy Share Image
It is unhappily true that much insincere Literature and Art, executed solely with a view to effect, does succeed by deceiving the public. — George Henry Lewes Copy Share Image
I have always considered The Merry Wives one of the worst plays, if not altogether the worst, that Shakespeare has left us. The wit… — George Henry Lewes Copy Share Image
Literature is at once the cause and the effect of social progress. — George Henry Lewes Copy Share Image
Literature is at once the cause and the effect of social progress. It deepens our natural sensibilities, and strengthens by exercise our intellectual capacities.… — George Henry Lewes Copy Share Image
If you feel yourself to be above the mass, speak so as to raise the mass to the height of your argument. — George Henry Lewes Copy Share Image
To some men popularity is always suspicious. Enjoying none themselves, they are prone to suspect the validity of those attainments which command it. — George Henry Lewes Copy Share Image
The art of writing is not, as many seem to imagine, the art of bringing fine phrases into rhythmical order, but the art of… — George Henry Lewes Copy Share Image
Literature delivers tidings of the world within and the world without. — George Henry Lewes Copy Share Image
The basis of insincerity is the idealized image we hold of ourselves and wish to impose on others. — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
What people call insincerity is simply a method by which we can multiply our personalities. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The real loneliness is living among all these kind people who only ask one to pretend! — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns, as it… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Never say sorry to anyone if you don't really mean it, and don't commit about anything that you know you don't really mean. — Anurag Prakash Ray 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 and deceive… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
...So Englishmen saw it. Lincoln's insincerity was regarded as proven by two things: his earlier denial of any lawful right or wish to free… — Sheldon Vanauken 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 with fulsome… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
What matters in Politics is what men actually do - sincerity is no excuse for acting unpolitically, and insincerity may be channelled by politics… — Bernard Crick 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
