Zitat des Tages über Unaufrichtigkeit / Insincerity:
I like America; I enjoy being there. Some people can't stand the insincerity - I love the waiter asking me how my day has been, the can-do culture there. I love the fact that again, you are visible in America. You turn the TV on, there are black politicians, black policemen, black soldiers.
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.
That's what show business is, sincere insincerity.
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.
Marriage always demands the greatest understanding of the art of insincerity possible between two human beings.
Every single instance of a friend's insincerity increases our dependence on the efficacy of money.
I like the enthusiasm but not the insincerity of Los Angeles.