"Sentimentality , the ostentatious parading of excessive and……" — James A. Baldwin
"Sentimentality , the ostentatious parading of excessive and spurious emotion, is the mark of dishonesty, the inability to feel."
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339 Quotes by James A. Baldwin
James A. Baldwin has 339 quotes on this site.
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Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is…
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Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.
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Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.
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The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.
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People pay for what they do, and still more for what they have allowed themselves to become. And they pay…
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I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is…
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People who treat other people as less than human must not be surprised when the bread they have cast on…
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Be careful what you set your heart upon - for it will surely be yours.
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Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.
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It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.
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I love America more than any other country in this world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the…
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Love him and let him love you. Do you think anything else under heaven really matters?
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More Dishonesty Quotes
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I don't want to lie. I dislike dishonesty. And I work in Hollywood, a town and a business that relies…
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The greatest truth is honesty, and the greatest falsehood is dishonesty.
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Never to lie is to have no lock on your door, you are never wholly alone.
— Elizabeth Bowen
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Truth exists; only lies are invented.
— Georges Braque
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No one can earn a million dollars honestly.
— William Jennings Bryan
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The best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way.
— Samuel Butler
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I do not mind lying, but I hate inaccuracy.
— Samuel Butler
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Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure there is one less rascal in the world.
— Thomas Carlyle
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I detest politics, to be honest with you. It's a cesspool. And I don't think I would fare well in…
— Benjamin Carson
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Most critical writing is drivel and half of it is dishonest. It is a short cut to oblivion, anyway. Thinking…
— Raymond Chandler
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We never will get a full situation of open transparency, but we should seek to bring forth the major concerns…
— Unknown Author
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We fed the public a line of deceit, dishonesty, a fabrication of statistics and figures.
— Bernard Nathanson
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