Quotes About Sincerity

My Country is Truth.

Love not me for comely grace, For my pleasing eye or face; Nor for any outward part, No, nor for my constant heart: For those may fail or turn to ill, So thou and I shall sever. Keep therefore a true woman's eye, And love me still, but know not why; So hast thou the same reason still To doat upon me ever.

Truth is so rare that it is delightful to tell it.

I decided that giving a girl a ring when you're not in a serious relationship is sort of like giving a guy a blow job when you have no real feelings for him. It makes everything feel a little cheap.It cheapens the giver and the recipient.

A drunk mind speaks a sober heart

But I cherished our filterless relationship and considered it the truest measure of a best friend, greater than pure affection.

I smile at my husband's unwavering thoughtfulness. Sometimes he really does seem too good to be true.

hesitated, thinking of all the ways I could change the subject, then made a spur-of-the-moment decision that I was finished with small talk and surface conversation and diversions and lies of any kind, no matter how small. At least for right now, as I sat at my parents' dining room table, with a kind man who had once loved me, and who still prayed to God before supper.

That's unfortunate, I say, choosing my words carefully and realizing that this might be the hallmark of a genuine friendship: how freely you speak.

I desperately want to feel that way again. To be in a relationship that I'm not trying to script or water down. It's about wanting something real—even if it's messy and complicated.

Children are not good at living a lie. Children have too much energy, are too impatient, and ask too many questions.

If you're sorry, folks can tell. No use piling on the verbiage.

There is something deeply unsettling about a child crying insincerely.

be as good as gold.

I don't tell untruths. I think it's being a coward if you don't tell the truth – and I'm not a coward.

She had never heard Artemis sound so warm, so sincere. Usually emotional displays were difficult for the boy and he stumbled through them awkwardly. This wasn't like him at all.

Do not try to seem wise to others.

Do not try to seem wise to others. If you want to live a wise life, live it on your own terms and in your own eyes.

If you win the adoration of others by pretending to be someone you're not, you may gain celebrity or high office—but you will lose out on the fulfillment of a life best-suited to your attributes and abilities.

And who can give to another the things which he has not himself?

Be the same person in public as in private.

Fools follow after vanity. The wise man keeps earnestness as his best jewel.

Look after goodness and truth, beauty will look after herself.

A man don't need to act tough if he is. Men that put on a show are spineless more often than not.