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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. Hollywood is tied hand and foot to the demands for artificiality of the masses all over the world.

- Lionel Barrymore

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

That`s what show business is, sincere insincerity.

- Benny Hill

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

- Vicki Baum

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

- Andrew Rudnick

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.

- Oscar Wilde

It is a mark of insincerity of purpose to spend one`s time in looking for the sacred Emperor in the low-class tea shops

- Ernest Bramah