Quotes About Authenticity

And I'm not afraid of your trying to figure out what it means to be your whole self

How do people like us take off our armour? One piece at a time.

I cannot help observing that beneath his defiance is fear. I know what it is to say the clever thing because you don't want anyone to know how scared you are. It doesn't make me like him any better, but for the first time he seems real. Not good, but real.

If i pretend not to be scared, I would lie there and scream until there was nothing left of me. I refuse to do that. I will not do that.

as though she was the only real thing in a land of ghosts.

Cardan looks at me as though he's never seen me before. He looks at me as though no one has ever spoken to him like this, maybe no one has.

He draws back. 'You really are beautiful,' he says. I am ever so glad to know that they cannot lie.

What if the way I am is the way I am? What if, when everything else is different, I'm not?

I cannot lie. I cannot deny you.

It doesn't make me like him any better, but for the first time he seems real. Not good, but real.

I am no Court lady with lips of carmine and butterflies in my hair. I am scrawny, like a stick bug.

Simple lies are always better than a complicated truth.

One doesn't have to lie to deceive.

This is the real Coldtown. I'm the real Coldtown. You still want in?

To be both a speaker of words and a doer of deeds.

Hateful to me as the gates of Hades is that man who hides one thing in his heart and speaks another.

And empty words are evil.

You may imitate, but never counterfeit.

Women are always true, even in the midst of their greatest falsities, because they are always influenced by some natural feeling.

Truth is less complete in its utterance; it does not put everything on the outside; it allows us to see what is within.

He had never dined with a duchess, never received a prize, never been interviewed, never produced anything which the public could understand, nor experienced anything since his schoolboy amours which nice people could regard as romantic. He was, in fact, an authentic scientist.

If you want to use a cliche you must take full responsibility for it yourself and not try to fob it off on anon., or on society.

I had now tasted freedom, and I couldn't lie to myself about that.

Loving truth and living honestly is my attitude to life. Be true to yourself and be true to others, thus you can be the judge of your behavior.