Best Insincere Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

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“Recognising that an ostentatious cult of heroism and state service served an important propaganda function for the British elite does not mean, of course, that we should dismiss it as artificial or insincere. All aristocracies have a strong military tradition, and for many British patricians the protracted warfare of the period was a godsend. It gave them a job, and, more important, a purpose, an opportunity to carry out what they had been trained to do since childhood: ride horses, fire guns, exercise their undoubted physical courage and tell other people what to do.”

“Professionally, it would be a logical choice, but my personal view is that he is the most insincere man I know in football”

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Author:Tony Cascarino

“There are many selfish people who are extremely original, then they take those pure ideas and use them to raise themselves up, that is an insincere move.”

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Author:Daniel Smith

“State censorship presents itself as a bulwark between society and forces of subversion or moral corruption. To dismiss this account of its own motives by the state as insincere would be a mistake: it is a feature of the paranoid logic of the censoring mentality that virtue ... must be innocent, and therefore, unless protected, vulnerable to the wiles of vice.”

“I will not let you (or me) make me dishonest, insincere, emotionally tied-up or constricted, or artificially nice and social, if I can help it.”

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Author:Eugene Gendlin

“I know the aspect of my personality, being the vixen, the heartbreaker and the incredibly provocative girl is a very marketable image, but it's not insincere. You just can't take it seriously.”

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Author:Madonna Ciccone

“I would much rather be found guilty of making a serious mistake in judgment, than to be accused of being even a little bit insincere.”

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Author:John Quincy Adams

“There is something insincere about a man or woman who repeatedly tells God how much he or she loves Him while refusing to obey Him.”

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Book:Louder Than Words: The Power of Uncompromised Living

Source: Louder Than Words: The Power of Uncompromised Living

“I daily examine myself on three points: In planning for others, have I failed in conscientiousness? In intercourse with friends, have I been insincere? And have I failed to practice what I have been taught?”

Has Beens Three Practice Taught Planning Intercourse Insincere Conscientiousness

Book:The Analects

Source: The Analects

“If a good cartoonist can make a living making his comics, he'll continue to do that; the lesser insincere cartoonist that gets a lot of press will fall by the wayside eventually.”

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Author:Gilberto Hernandez Guerrero

“When virtuous mental attitudes, like mindfulness, respect, and compassion, are invoked to justify nonvirtuous acts like hunting, fishing, and eating animal products, the mental attitudes are insincere. They are self-deceptions that we create to justify habits that in our hearts we know are wrong, but to which we have become attached.”

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Author:Norm Phelps

“I prefer reading novels. Short stories are too much like daggers. And now that I'm done with my collection I'm more interested in different forms of writing and other kinds of narrative art. I'm working on a screenplay. But when I was working on Eileen, I definitely felt like I was taking a piss. Like, here I am, typing on my computer, writing the "novel." It wasn't that it was insincere, but there was a kind of farcical feeling I had when I was writing.”

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Author:Ottessa Moshfegh

“The most exhausting thing in life is being insincere.”

“I much prefer a compliment, even if insincere, to sincere criticism.”

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Author:Plautus

“Mitt Romney - he had a Rock Hudson thing going, shoeblack hair and a well-hung resume, but even for a shameless, position-shifting phony he seemed a trifle insincere.”

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Author:James Wolcott

“The most exhausting thing in life, I have discovered, is being insincere. That is why so much of social life is exhausting; one is wearing a mask. I have shed my mask.”

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Book:Wisdom from Gift from the Sea

Source: Wisdom from Gift from the Sea

“..we wear the mask that grins and lies, it hides our cheeks and shades our eyes- this debt we pay to human guile; with torn and bleeding hearts we smile.”

“One has to be insincere and promise something which you cannot fulfill. So you either have to be a fool who does not understand what you are promising, or deliberately be lying.”

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Author:Vladimir Putin

“That we occasionally violate our own stated moral code does not imply that we are insincere in espousing that code.”

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Book:The Diamond Age

Source: The Diamond Age

“Children are people, and they should have to reach to learn about things, to understand things, just as adults have to reach if they want to grow in mental stature. Life is composed of lights and shadows, and we would be untruthful, insincere, and saccharine if we tried to pretend there were no shadows. Most things are good, and they are the strongest things; but there are evil things too, and you are not doing a child a favor by trying to shield him from reality. The important thing is to teach a child that good can always triumph over evil.”

Source: Walt Disney: Conversations

“One can say this in general of men: they are ungrateful, disloyal, insincere and deceitful, timid of danger and avid of profit...Love is a bond of obligation that these miserable creatures break whenever it suits them to do so; but fear holds them fast by a dread of punishment that never passes.”

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Author:Niccolo Machiavelli

“All stories are true,” Skarpi said. “But this one really happened, if that’s what you mean.” He took another slow drink, then smiled again, his bright eyes dancing. “More or less. You have to be a bit of a liar to tell a story the right way. Too much truth confuses the facts. Too much honesty makes you sound insincere.”

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Author:Patrick Rothfuss

“Too much truth confuses the facts. Too much honesty makes you sound insincere.”

Facts Sound Too Much Honesty Insincere

Author:Patrick Rothfuss

“When a cat flatters ... he is not insincere: you may safely take it for real kindness.”

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Book:Classical conversations: being imaginary conversations among Greek, Roman and Modern personages of classic consequence in the history of human culture

Source: Classical conversations: being imaginary conversations among Greek, Roman and Modern personages of classic consequence in the history of human culture

“Conventions vs. spontaneity. This is a dialectical choice, it depends on the assessment you make of your own times. If you judge that your own time is ridden with empty insincere formalities, you plump for spontaneity, for indecorous behavior even...Much of morality is the task of compensating for one's age. One assumes unfashionable virtues, in an indecorous time. In a time hollowed out by decorum, one must school oneself in spontaneity.”