Quotes About Authenticity

When a man puts on a Character he is a stranger to, there's as much difference between what he appears, and what he is really in himself, as there is between a VIzor and a Face.

The more honesty a man has, the less he affects the air of a saint.

Age childish makes, they say, but 'tis not true; We're only genuine children still in Age's season. [Ger., Das Alter macht nicht kindisch, wie man spricht, Es findet uns nur noch als wahre Kinder.]

To be pure in heart is to take no delight in cunning, but converse sincerely with men, and express nothing, by word or look, which is not felt in the heart.

If any of you ... have a mind to make himself heard a mile off, you must make a bonfire of your reputations, and a close enemy of most men who would wish you well.

I like old men. They can be wonderful bastards because they have nothing to lose. The only people who can be themselves are babies and old bastards.

Words were not given to man in order to conceal his thoughts.

I love a straightforward character. I am the guy who loves Cyclops on the 'X-Men', because he is square.

I want women -- and men -- to feel empowered by a deeper and more psychotic part of themselves. The part they're always trying desperately to hide. I want that to become something that they cherish.

Men do not change; they unmask themselves.

It is - last stage of all When we are frozen up within, and quite The phantom of ourselves To hear the world applaud the hollow ghost Which blamed the living man

Unless a man feels he has a good enough memory, he should never venture to lie.

I do not play games, but always just say what's on my mind. Ostentatious modesty - for fools. If a man afraid of your honesty, it means that he is not the one you need.

But which was the real me? Let me be perfectly honest: I was a man of many faces. (p.33)

Every day I'm reassessing what I've been taught against what I see, and the man I need to be if I'm going to call myself a leader of anybody.

A girl should never disguise the fact that she's a girl. It's a lot easier to convince a man that you're a fascinating female if you look the part.

For what is a man, what has he got? If not himself, then he has naught. To say the things he truly feels, and not the words of one who kneels.

A man is at his strongest when he is willing to accept his vulnerability

For this is the most civil sort of lie That can be given to a man's face. I now Say what I think.

I'm one of those that believes you can't be one kind of a man and another kind of president.

The poor man is ruined as soon as he begins to ape the rich.

A flattering painter, who made it his care To draw men as they ought to be, not as they are.

Everywhere men have unlocked the prisoners within, and from under the disguising skins the apes have leapt joyfully out.

Examinations, sir, are pure humbug from beginning to end. If a man is a gentleman, he knows quite enough, and if he is not a gentleman, whatever he knows is bad for him.