Where the questions of religion are concerned people are guilty of every possible kind of insincerity and intellectual misdemeanor.
Sigmund FreudTags: questions lies guilty insincerity misdemeanor
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.
J.D. SalingerTags: friendship manners insincerity
I had trouble listening to adults who didn't really mean anything that they said; it was as if their language poured into my ears only to drain right out a little spigot in the back of my head.
Reif LarsenTags: children listening 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.
Joseph ConradTags: classic fiction insincerity
The real loneliness is living among all these kind people who only ask one to pretend!
Edith WhartonTags: friends kindness family loneliness falsehood pretense insincerity
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 were instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish spurting out ink.
George OrwellTags: clarity insincerity english-language obscurantism
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.
Thomas BernhardTags: art artists insincerity artists-life pretention
Miss Bingley's congratulations to her brother, on his approaching marriage, were all that was affectionate and insincere.
Jane AustenTags: marriage insincerity congratulations
Being nice merely to be liked in return nullifies the point.
Criss JamiTags: honesty sincerity dishonesty insincerity kind pointless nice canceled cancelled nullified
You can't let the truth bring out the worst and let it get the best of you.
Criss JamiTags: truth honesty humility arrogance corruption destruction sincerity pride insincerity
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