Quotes About Authenticity

There is no more difference betwixt a hypocrite and an apostate, than betwixt a green apple and a ripe one; come a while hence, and you will see him fall rottenripe from his profession.

I know of nothing more difficult than knowing who you are, and having the courage to share the reasons for the catastrophe of your character with the world.

She is what I feel to be a good person in the word's simplest and plainest meaning. Which includes lashing out with her claws on some occasions when others may consider it improper—I don't give a damn whether Ginny is "proper" or not; I like her. I like her values.

The only vice which cannot be forgiven is hypocrisy. The repentance of a hypocrite is itself hypocrisy.

Asleep, nobody is a hypocrite

The thing is plain. All that men really understand, is confined to a very small compass; to their daily affairs and experience; to what they have an opportunity to know, and motives to study or practice. The rest is affectation and imposture

An honest man speaks the truth, though it may give offence a vain man, in order that it may.

We are not hypocrites in our sleep.

Man is a make-believe animal - he is never so truly himself as when he is acting a part.

The only vice that can not be forgiven is hypocrisy.

To be happy, we must be true to nature, and carry our age along with us.

Do not keep on with a mockery of friendship after the substance is gone - but part, while you can part friends. Bury the carcass of friendship: it is not worth embalming.

He is a hypocrite who professes what he does not believe; not he who does not practice all he wishes or approves.

I like a friend the better for having faults that one can talk about.

Those who make their dress a principal part of themselves, will, in general, become of no more value than their dress.

Actors are the only honest hypocrites.

Truth wears no mask Bows at no human Shrine Seeks neither place nor applause She only asks a hearing.

Neatness, madam, has nothing to do with the truth. The truth is quite messy, like a wind blown room.

Individuality is founded in feeling; and the recesses of feeling, the darker, blinder strata of character, are the only places in the world in which we catch real fact in the making

Truth is what works.

Individuality is founded in feeling and the recesses of feeling, the darker, blinder strata of character, are the only places in the world in which we catch real fact in the making, and directly perceive how events happen, and how work is actually done.

Circumstance does not make me, it reveals me.

Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive, along with which comes the inner voice which says, 'This is the real me,' and when you have found that attitude, follow it.

So necessary is it not only that we should be what we appear, but appear what we are.