Quotes About Authenticity

A man who gives a good account of himself is probably lying, since any life when viewed from the inside is simply a series of defeats.

Brave men are all vertebrates; they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the middle.

Give me a man with a little fight in him, a man who calls me on my bullshit. (But who also kind of likes my bullshit.)

Men who have a lot of charm have it in place of something real that you are eventually going to want from them and find that they do not have.

Insincerity in a man's own heart must make all his enjoyments, all that concerns him, unreal; so that his whole life must seem like a merely dramatic representation.

Boys wear their hearts on their sleeves. Even when they're trying to pull one over on you they're so transparent. Like men.

It is easy for men to talk one thing and think another.

The value of an idea has nothing whatever to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it.

When a man says to me, "I have the intensest love of nature," at once I know that he has none.

Women love an honest man.

It's a man's business to be what he is, and to be it in style.

Any doctrine that will not bear investigation is not a fit tenant for the mind of an honest man.

If the world ever advances beyond what it is today, it must be led by men who express their real opinions.

Nothing causes more consternation in a group of hypocrits than one honest man.

Sting's my ideal man, because he's a real man.

For some comedians it feels so cool to be like: 'I'll say anything, man!'. I'm not quite there yet.

Great occasions do not make heroes or cowards; they simply unveil them to the eyes of men.

I found the right man, got married, and just had to keep not reinventing myself, just deciding that it doesn't matter what you are if you are a good person.

There is nothing more contemptible than a bald man who pretends to have hair.

One of the great tragedies of life is that men seldom bridge the gulf between practice and profession, between doing and saying.

As a son of a man who pretended to be one thing for 33 years of my life and then was another thing, the questions of 'what is real' and 'what is not real' are very blurrily vivid to me.

Be fond of the man who jests at his scars, if you like; but never believe he is being on the level with you.

It's a rare man who is taken for what he truly is.

Agesilaus being invited once to hear a man who admirably imitated the nightingale, he declined, saying he had heard the nightingale itself.