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Quotes About Sincerity

Ya está usted tranquilo, ¿no? ¿Porque me he dirigido a usted antes que a nadie para compartir la alegría del deseo que me ha entrado? Sin duda; porque he comprendido que me quiere por mí y no por usted, mientras que los demás nunca me han querido más que por sí mismos.
~ Alexandre Dumas
Bueno, siempre labios que dicen lo que el corazón no siente
~ Alexandre Dumas
Mais vous ne m'avez jamais dit non plus que vous ne m'aimez point; et vraiment, me dire de semblables paroles, ce serait de la part de Votre Majesté une trop grande ingratitude. Car, dites-moi, où trouverez-vous un amour pareil au mien, um amour que ni le temps, ni l'absence, ni le désepoir ne peuvent enteindre; un amour que se contente d'un ruban égaré, d'un regard perdu, d'une parole échappée?
~ Alexandre Dumas
Friendship throws out deep roots in honest hearts
~ Alexandre Dumas
rogue does not laugh in the same way that an honest man does; a hypocrite does not shed the tears of a man of good faith. All falsehood is a mask; and however well made the mask may be, with a little attention we may always succeed in distinguishing it from the true face.
~ Alexandre Dumas
though he doesn't like me, I'd trust him and his honest dislike before others who boast of devotion.
~ Alexandre Dumas
lisonja? Lo cierto era que la cuestión
~ Alexandre Dumas
The eyes of a woman who loves are not easily deceived.
~ Alexandre Dumas
It is impossible to read this opening paragraph without an involuntary feeling of religious awe; it breathed the very savor of Gospel antiquity. The sincerity of the author heightens his power of language.
~ Alexis de Tocqueville
Holiness doesn't require a halo, folded hands, or an otherworldly preoccupation.
~ Alice Camille
Interesting, but she could see that the boy didn't have a single lie in him. A very rare condition, especially for the male of the species.
~ Alice Hoffman
Whoever gives his true self away does do with words
~ Alice Hoffman
Shelby is brutally honest. That's why Maravelle likes her. Maravelle is brutally honest too. You can't have many friends if you act that way, but you can depend on the ones you have.
~ Alice Hoffman
But why would a man in his right mind memorize another man's words instead of speaking his own? That's what a player does. Maria shrugged. He pretends to be someone he's not.
~ Alice Hoffman
Sorry," Mary said. "I had some errands to run." Pauline eyed her. It would be Pauline's way to say, No you didn't. It would be Pauline's way to refuse the decorum of the fib, to embrace the painful honesty. It would be her way to say, You just didn't feel like having lunch with me. Which would have been true, of course. And no less embarrassing, regrettable, awkward, no less vigorously denied, because it was true.
~ Alice McDermott
Genuine feelings cannot be produced, nor can they be eradicated.
~ Alice Miller
True emotional understanding has nothing to do with cheap sentimental pity.
~ Alice Miller
Exactly,' she said, and made her point as simply as that. There wasn't a lot of bullshit in my heaven. ~pg 8
~ Alice Sebold
These things, she felt, were not to be passed around like disingenuous party favors
~ Alice Sebold
She was a literal speaker. What she expressed she both felt and was.
~ Alice Walker
Ki Muhammad se wafa toonay to ham teray hain Ye jahan cheez hai kiya lauho qalam tere hain
~ Allama Mohammad Iqbal
one must verge on the unknown, write toward the truth hitherto unrecognizable of one's own sincerity, including the avoidable beauty of doom, shame, and embarrassment, that very area of personal self-recognition,(detailed individual is universal remember) which formal conventions, internalized, keep us from discovering in ourselves and others
~ Allen Ginsberg
now. "Indeed," Nell agreed. "There can be no doubt that he and Mrs. Fitzherbert both love her dearly. It would be cruel to
~ Amanda Scott
The tendency to lie is one thing; lying is another.
~ Ambrose Bierce