Quotes About Genuineness

la possibilité de jeter le masque en toutes choses est l'un des rares avantages que je trouve à vieillir

What a treasure, to meet with any thing a new heart-- all hearts, nowadays, are secondhand at best.

genuinely is

Be sure that you speak with unfeigned lips.

How many books do we read from which the writer lacked courage to tie off the umbilical cord? How many gifts do we open from which the writer neglected to remove the price tag? Is it pertinent, is it courteous, for us to learn what it cost the writer personally?

So I didn't have time to craft artful lies and evasions even if I'd wanted to.

But I'm simply not going to deceive anybody about the life as I've seen it. It's all here: the good, the bad and the ugly.

People will continue to pay for quality. They will be less and less inclined, however, to pay for bullshit.

There's something in her that's looking for the basic reality of a given situation.

Courtesty and cordiality are not only not the same, but they are incompatible. Why so? Courtesy is an effort, and cordiality is free.

The truth is so much more real when it comes from things that are near.

Lizzie, with all her self-assuring protestations, knew that she was paste, and knew that Lucy was real stone.

People are not dull to me, if they are real. I pity that poor lady. She is proud of her blood and yet not ashamed of her poverty.

Don't act. Be.

But there was no substitute for reality; one should beware of imitations.

The best way of successfully acting a part is to be it.

Nothing creates untruth in you as the wish to please.

He thought most men would hardly dare to touch her, or only with anger, because she would not pretend anything was casual.

I'm not going to give you a song and dance that I'm a great scholar, philosopher, or man of wealth.

They don't like being seen through: as for me I'm straight I don't join their act I tear masks off.

I have no love for a friend who loves in words alone.

Be it life or death, we crave only reality.

You can't just sing the song and live another life.

Sometimes things are just what they seem to be and that's all there is to it.