#insincerity

Every single instance of a friend's insincerity increases our dependence on the efficacy of money. ↗

— William Shenstone

#efficacy #every #friend #increases #insincerity

Marriage always demands the greatest understanding of the art of insincerity possible between two human beings. ↗

— Vicki Baum

#art #beings #between #demands #greatest

We have better relationships with those who truly seek us rather than those sitting on the couch watching us move mountains trying to prove ourselves. ↗

— Criss Jami

#courtship #dating #friend #friends #friendship

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. ↗

— Alberto Moravia

#faith #insincerity #pretense #religion #faith

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 Orwell

#english-language #insincerity #english

This is the age of insincerity. The movies had the misfortune to come along in the twentieth century, and because they appeal to the masses there can be no sincerity in them. ↗

— Lionel Barrymore

#along #appeal #because #century #come

I like the enthusiasm but not the insincerity of Los Angeles. ↗

— Brenda Blethyn

#enthusiasm #i #insincerity #like #los

The real loneliness is living among all these kind people who only ask one to pretend! ↗

— Edith Wharton

#family #friends #insincerity #kindness #loneliness

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 Bernhard

#artists #artists-life #insincerity #pretention #art

Miss Bingley's congratulations to her brother, on his approaching marriage, were all that was affectionate and insincere. ↗

— Jane Austen

#insincerity #marriage #marriage