Quotes About Authenticity

Man must learn to simplify, but not to the point of falsification.

We must wash literature off ourselves. We want to be men above all, to be human.

Circumstances do not make the man or woman, they merely reveal them.

I wanted to see if the American man in plain brown pants and a bare torso could speak profound things.

Sorrow makes men sincere.

A man can certainly be a Muppet. Being a Muppet is a state of mind. It's about finding that little part of you that's unique, and not being embarrassed by it, but cherishing it.

Men like women who are fun to be around, who are kind, intelligent, honest and who don't play games.

All men are liars, said Roberta Muldoon, who knew this was true because she had once been a man.

Men are not free when they're doing just what they like. Men are only free when they're doing what the deepest self likes. And there is getting down to the deepest self! It takes some diving.

I like a look of Agony, because I know it's true - men do not sham Convulsion, nor simulate, a Throe

I like men with quick wit, good conversation and a great sense of humour. I love banter. I want a man to like me for me - I want him to be authentic.

Don't shave, don't shower, don't care. Be really stinky and wear the same clothes every day. I think what makes a man sexy is not being self-aware. That's what's really cute to me.

By men's words we know them.

The mark of a man of the world is absence of pretension.

I fear uniformity. You cannot manufacture great men any more than you can manufacture gold.

The Church can't be a religious theater where paid men perform for the religious amusement of the people who pay them.

You don't need to marry a man with millions. You only need to be your exquisite self.

The mark of an honest man... is that he means what he says and knows what he means.

Hypocrisy is folly. It is much easier, safer, and pleasanter to be the thing which a man aims to appear, than to keep up the appearance of being what he is not.

A man is original when he speaks the truth that has always been known to all good men.

I don't think young men or women should feel pressured into marriage. You shouldn't marry anyone, in my opinion, who you have to try hard for.

Don't clock anybody, let them all clock you, Don't be down with anybody, let them all be down with you. Stay self-managed, self-kept, self-taught, Be your own man; don't be borrowed, don't be bought.

Life consists with wildness. The most alive is the wildest. Not yet subdued to man, its presence refreshes him.

The gentleman is solid mahogany; the fashionable man is only veneer.