disingenuousness Quotes

Hypocrisy is the necessary burden of villainy, affectation part of the chosen trappings of folly; the one completes a villain, the other only finishes a fop.

I think there's something very disingenuous about literally all people who say that they don't care about anyone's approval.

Hypocrisy in anything whatever may deceive the cleverest and most penetrating man, but the least wide-awake of children recognizes it, and is revolted by it, however ingeniously it may be disguised.

Anti-frackers are disingenuous. They bow to the religion of environmentalism.

Truth does not do as much good in the world as its imitations do harm.

You're lying through your fangs," Iggy accused. Fang tried to play innocent--but "innocent Fang" is an oxymoron, so it didn't work.

It's disingenuous to... pretend the sources of our money don't impact the policy we write - you just can't serve two masters.

As a general rule, people who flagrantly pretend to anything are the reverse of that which they pretend to. A man who sets up for a saint is sure to be a sinner; and a man who boasts that he is a sinner is sure to have some feeble, maudlin, snivelling bit of saintship about him which is enough to make him a humbug.

Where there is hypocrisy, there is hope.

One of the great criticisms of poets of the past is that they said one thing and did another.

Throughout my football career, I've always been somebody who's been very aware, and I know when the camera is on me, and I know how to be polished. I can see how that might come off as disingenuous.

In fact, their eyes sort of roll around and they kind of go, 'Hmm'- like there's something there and they don't want to talk about it. But they're not that kind when they are speaking in public.

I loathe people who are disingenuous or inauthentic.

Is insincerity such a terrible thing? I think not. It is merely a method by which we can multiply our personalities.

…maybe the whole Internet will simply become like Facebook: falsely jolly, fake-friendly, self-promoting, slickly disingenuous….” - Zadie Smith

I think it's disingenuous to believe that being born into a privileged world means you feel like you are having an easy time.

Publicly, we say one thing....Actually, we do another.

It'd be disingenuous to say I don't like attention - I'm an actor for God's sake - and it's flattering and all, but attention was never my big goal. I just like to work and have a good time.

I am aware it's easy and may be fashionable to pose with a slum child, and the irony of getting the media along means that it can come across as disingenuous. But you take these things on board, and you hope you mean it whenever you get stuck into something.

I don't like the word "brand." When I see people creating a brand, it feels disingenuous.

Fie, fie, how frantically I square my talk!

People have referred to me as 'innocent', which makes me feel disingenuous.

I think I know a lot of fake two-faced Ivy League liberals, and I am constantly testing them to see if their liberalism is a conversational liberalism, one that depends solely on what will fly at a party. And I can tell when stuff like this happens, I swear to God, they are tomorrow's conservatives.

A man is a hypocrite only when he affects to take a delight in what he does not feel, not because he takes a perverse delight in opposite things.

Prevarication, like honesty, is reflexive, and soon becomes a sturdy habit, as reliable as truth.