Quotes About Authenticity

Distinction doesn't consist in the facile use of a contemptible set of conventions, but in being numbered among those whose are true, and honest, and just, and pure, and lovely, and of good report

One thing he certainly was— sincere.

it is difficult to adjust our outer and inner life with perfect honesty to all!

for unfortunately the person most dogged in the belief in a false reputation is always that one, the possessor, who has the best means of knowing that it is not true.

Truth like a bastard comes into the world Never without ill-fame to him who gives her birth

Credevo, Angel, che tu mi amassi... amassi me, per quello che sono. Se sono io che tu ami, come puoi guardarmi e parlare così? Tutto ciò mi fa paura! Ho cominciato ad amarti e ti amo, ti amerò per sempre... qualsiasi disgrazia dovesse accadere, qualsiasi cambiamento, perché tu sei proprio tu; non chiedo altro. E allora tu, che sei mio marito, come puoi cessare d'amarmi?»

Well it's true.

HOW DO you behave when you know the conventional honors are dross?

I say what I mean. Would you like it better if I said 'I'm glad you find me so.' That would be a little fancier, and equally true.

He cleared his throat. "One good thing about the range, Starling, is there's no politics out there." "No?" "You were right to secure that garage up at Baltimore there. You worried about the TV?

Who are you anyway?" Krendler said. "You're not Starling. You've got the spot on your face, but you're not Starling.

When surrounded by their peers, most men have two sets of reactions—the real ones and those designed for evaluation by their fellows.

Springfield in 1938 was not a center for plastic surgery. In Springfield, you wore your face as it was.

In trying to act rich by imitating big-spending rich people, who is Rodney really impressing? Certainly it is not the rich! In reality, he impresses only himself and some of his friends who enjoy impersonating the glitteringly rich.

Can anything worse happen to those who are trying to look rich when they learn the truth? They buy expensive, so-called high-status beverages because they need to tell people they are superior. They want so badly to do what the glittering rich do with their money. But then their trash collector's revelation dampens their enthusiasm

Quieres sobresalir en medio de la multitud? Hazlo con tus logros y no usando un traje de payaso, así eso sea lo que usen los amantes de la moda.

It is my belief that the number of households in America that are interested in looking wealthy is far greater than the number that are interested in being wealthy. p122

Never trust quotes you find on the internet.

rather babble away and at least partially express something difficult than reproduce impeccable clichés

If poets use such expressions it is because they need them, because emotion and experience force them out of them, and so it is, surely, with me, though you think them unbecoming in me. You are wrong. They are becoming to whoever needs them, and he has no fear of them, because they are forced out of him.

Si vantano di ciò che dovrebbero vergognarsi, e ostentano ciò che dovrebbero nascondere.

If I gave in to my nature, I'd lie in bed until afternoon, you can believe me. It's actually hypocrisy for me to get up so early.

kaip lengva b?ti vis? m?gstamam, guviam, linksmam, šauniam ir s?mojingam, sukti galvas moterims, kai tu neturi ko veikti ir esi laisvas kaip paukštis, kada kiti ateina pas mylim?j? po sunkios dienos, pavarg? nuo visoki? r?pes?i? ir nebe?stengia pasirodyti taip, kaip jie nor?t?.

Pride makes us artificial; humility makes us real