Quotes About Genuineness

A straightforward, honest person should be like someone who stinks: when you're in the same room with him, you know it. But false straightforwardness is like a knife in the back. False friendship is the worst. Avoid it at all costs. If you're honest and straightforward and mean well, it should show in your eyes. It should be unmistakable.

Speak what you really think, not what you think people want to hear.

A straightforward, honest person should be like someone who stinks: when you're in the same room with him, you know it. But false straightforwardness is like a knife in the back.

Be content to seem what you really are.

Con la afectación del léxico no trates de decorar tu pensamiento.

The most noble thing is to be yourself.

Esse quam videri - To be, rather than to seem (to be)

Denn wirklich tugendhaft wollen nicht so Viele sein als scheinen.

Is it real? No, it is not real. What is this not real? Not real can tell us about real.

I'd rather be myself," he said. "Myself and nasty. Not somebody else, however jolly.

I'm not that good of an actor to fake something like that.

It is better to love truly at seventeen than pretend at thirty.

If you can get humor and seriousness at the same time, you've created a special little thing, and that's what I'm looking for, because if you get pompous, you lose everything.

I'm not 100% nice all the time, so I find it quite hard to be really pleasant.

When we live our lives authentically, we discover our true place in the world for the first time.

She thought that people sought marriage because it meant they could put aside the mascara, the bravado, the good clothes, the company manners, and be themselves, whatever that was, not try so hard. But what that seemed to mean was that they didn't try at all. 

You are all made of real poop.

Ik wil geen aanbidders, maar vrienden, geen bewonderaars voor een vleiend lachje maar voor optreden en karakter. Ik weet heel goed dat dan de kring om me heen veel kleiner zou zijn. Maar wat hindert dat als ik nog maar een paar mensen, oprechte mensen, overhoud?

I want to be honest; I think it gets you further and also makes you feel better about yourself.

I don't want followers, but friends, admirers who fall not for a flattering smile but for what one does and for one's character.

I shall ask into my shell only those friends with whom I can be completely honest. I find I am shedding hypocrisy in human relationships. What a rest that will be! The most exhausting thing in life, I have discovered, is being insincere. That is why so much of social life is exhausting; one is wearing a mask. I have shed my mask.

The most exhausting thing in life is being insincere.

In that moment there was no pretense between them, no lingering vestige of reserve or attempt to escape, no denial. It was final and complete.

Ask her her opinion of anything, and instead of judging what is appropriate to say, she will tell you what she really thinks.