(16 quotes found)
“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 squirting out ink.”
George Orwell
“Insincerity is merely a method by which we can multiply our personalities”
Oscar Wilde
“What people call insincerity is simply a method by which we can multiply our personalities.”
“I'll be there for you, as long as it works for me. I play a game, its called insincerity.”
Trent Reznor
“Marriage always demands the finest arts of insincerity possible between two human beings”
Vicki Baum
“Architecture, like dress, is an exercise in good manners, and good manners involve the habit of skillful insincerity-the habit of saying "good morning" to those whose mornings you would rather blight, and of passing the butter to those you would rather starve.”
Roger Scruton
“The most exhausting thing in life is insincerity”
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
“The most exhausting thing in life is being insincere.”
“An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast; a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind.”
Buddha
“SOPHISTRY, n. The controversial method of an opponent, distinguished from one's own by superior insincerity and fooling. This method is that of the later Sophists, a Grecian sect of philosophers who began by teaching wisdom, prudence, science, art and, in brief, whatever men ought to know, but lost themselves in a maze of quibbles and a fog of words.His bad opponent's "facts" he sweeps away, And drags his sophistry to light of day; Then swears they're pushed to madness who resort To falsehood of so desperate a sort. Not so; like sods upon a dead man's breast, He lies most lightly who the least is pressed. --Polydore Smith”
Ambrose Bierce
