Quotes About Authenticity

And let me be rather but honest with no-wit, Than a noisy nonsensical half-witted poet.

The shamans are forever yacking about their snake-oil "miracles." I prefer the Real McCoy — a pregnant Woman.

It is bad enough to see one's own good things fathered on other people, but it is worse to have other people's rubbish fathered upon oneself.

I never said half the crap people said I said.

What you undoubtedly want is about two paragraphs of facts. I've forgotten so many of the facts. I don't remember what is true and what might have been true... As for the picture — I hate cameras. They are so much more sure than I am about everything.

I've never faked a sarcasm.

Decorate yourself from the inside out.

Knowing who you are is the best defense against who they think you are.

If you lend me your ears, I shall doubtless take your hearts too. That I may not lead you into any wrong, let me warn you of this. Never violate the sacredness of your individual self-respect. Be true to your own mind and conscience, your heart and your soul.

But it is a cold, lifeless business, when you go to the shops to buy me something which does not represent your life and talent, but a goldsmith's.

The teeth are smiling, but is the heart?

The antidote to exhaustion may not be rest but wholeheartedness... we are typically exhausted because we are not doing our TRUE work.

Today's public figures can no longer write their own speeches or books, and there is some evidence that they can't read them either.

Style is knowing who you are, what to say, and not giving a damn.

Today's public figures can no longer write their own speeches or books, and there is some evidence that they can't read them either.

Always be wary of people who use quotes. I don't know who said that.' - Murdoc Niccals

Daja: Die Menschen sind nicht immer, was sie scheinen. Tempelherr: Doch selten Etwas Besser.

Ein ehrlicher Mann mag stecken, in welchem Kleide er will, man muss ihn lieben.

I still weave dreams, finding inspiration wherever I can and looking for romance in the real, not the digital, world

only you know who you are.

Kate as she was at home without varnish or furbelows.

You know it really doesn't matter about clothes if we look clean and neat and behave well. I think we've been placing too high a value on looks anyway. Of course looks do count a little, but they are, after all, only a trifle beside real worth. And, if we can't impress that girl with our refinement by our actions, why, we can put on all the clothes in the universe, and we won't be able to do it any better.

There can be neither beauty, nor trust, nor security between a man and a woman if there is not truth.

Men have so often written about women without knowing the reality of their lives, and worse, without being interested in that daily reality.