Insincerity Quotes
28 quotes
"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."
"You can't let the truth bring out the worst and let it get the best of you."
"A sign of a lover of wisdom is his delight in not running his mouth about things he doesn't know."
"When you aren't sincere you need to pretend, and by pretending you end up believing yourself; that's the basic principle of every faith."
"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."
"The aim is to love God because the pure heart loves loving God and because the true mind knows He deserves it. Unlike the accusations and beliefs of the critics and skeptics, it is neither an obligation of duty; nor a fear of damnation; nor a wish for power; nor a desire to appear more righteous than others; nor because God needs it; but because through all love, truth, reason, faith, honesty, and joy in and beyond oneself and the universe, He is worthy."
"You've always lived a life of pretense, not a real life-- a simulated existence, not a genuine existence. Everything about you, everything you are, has always been pretense, never genuine, never real."
"Miss Bingley's congratulations to her brother, on his approaching marriage, were all that was affectionate and insincere."
"Every category has its snobs: music, books, movies. There are so many things a man is only pressured into liking or disliking."
"Be willing to give, but only when you aren't expecting anything in return."
"The real loneliness is living among all these kind people who only ask one to pretend!"
"Men seek a great deal, but fatally close, albeit very different, is one's pride in proving oneself right with one's zeal for finding the truth."
"Normally, anything done in the name of 'the kids' strikes me as either slightly sentimental or faintly sinister—that redolence of moral blackmail that adheres to certain charitable appeals and certain kinds of politician. (Not for nothing is baby-kissing the synonym for public 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."
"One who enjoys finding errors will then start creating errors to find."
"A prophet is always underestimated, and part of what makes one a prophet is that he doesn't really mind it."
"The difficulty with humorists is that they will mix what they believe with what they don’t—whichever seems likelier to win an effect."
"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."
"The dean put a finger to his chin as he studied this great and troubling mystery. The applicant’s response reeked of insincerity, like, “Have a nice day!” with all the friendly burned off. “Okay, Mr. Darlington. I’ll just be a minute."
"Being nice merely to be liked in return nullifies the point."
"To hear how much of a great human being you were — even if you really weren’t — open your ears at your funeral."
"An insincere critic of a sincere person never wins."
"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."
"I appreciate a book intended to be judged by its cover. The insincere readers are often weeded out while the sincere readers remain curious."
"True cynics kill themselves. The rest are posers, trying to use clever sarcasm and snarky remarks to hide insecurity and the fear that if they put themselves out there, they will fail."
"The expression Gone To The Dogs needs to be changed to Gone To Humans Without a Conscience"
"Even his conversation was, as it were, a spoken part."