Quotes About Sincerity

I am afraid we must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy.

The truth sticks in our throats with all the sauces it is served with: it will never go down until we take it without any sauce at all.

To be fool enough to believe a ramping, stamping, thumping lie: that is what you call sincerity!

Upon my word, I think the truth is the hardest missile one can be pelted with.

I suppose one reason why we are seldom able to comfort our neighbours with our words is that our good will gets adulterated, in spite of ourselves, before it can pass our lips. We can send black puddings and pettitoes without giving them a flavour of our own egoism; but language is a stream that is almost sure to smack of a mingled soil.

For the egoism which enters into our theories does not affect their sincerity; rather, the more our egoism is satisfied, the more robust is our belief.

I think any hardship is better than pretending to do what one is paid for, and never really doing it.

Does any one suppose that private prayer is necessarily candid—necessarily goes to the roots of action? Private prayer is inaudible speech, and speech is representative: who can represent himself just as he is, even in his own reflections?

It was one of those dangerous moments when speech is at once sincere and deceptive, when feeling, rising high above its average depth, leaves flood-marks which are never reached again.

Was never true love loved in vain, For truest love is highest gain.

Examine your words well, and you will find that even when you have no motive to be false, it is a very hard thing to say the exact truth, even about your own immediate feelings—much harder than to say something fine about them which is NOT the exact truth.

She was not coldly clever and indirectly satirical, but adorably simple and full of feeling.

For the egoism which enter into our theories does not effect their sincerity, rather the more our egoism is satisfied the more robust is our belief

He fled to his usual refuge, that of hoping for some unforeseen turn of fortune, some favorable chance which would save him from unpleasant consequences — perhaps even justify his insincerity by manifesting its prudence.

you should say what you believe using your language, not theirs.

If there is honesty in your face, the battle is won. It doesn't have to be the most beautiful face in the world. The audience can relate to you then. They feel love, not lust, for you.

The Chinese seemed to be mourning Mao in a heartfelt fashion. But I wondered how many of their tears were genuine. People had practiced acting to such a degree that they confused it with their true feelings.

I cannot tell a lie, and I'm very straightforward. Sometimes this hurts people. I've wondered if I should change, but I feel more comfortable about myself this way.

Most people are always wondering what to say. With me, life is an open book.

I don't like the idea that you're supposed to woo someone by doing things you wouldn't want to do on an everyday basis.

A sincere diplomat is like dry water or wooden iron.

If you express yourself too much. you're overacting; if you underplay it too much, it can come across as wooden.

Pat Boone is an icon in this country. He's not a guy who's going to pull the wool over people's eyes. He's going to tell them the truth.

I think the word 'earnest' kind of has a negative connotation on some level. I think one of the things that's happened is that being cynical is somehow conflated with being sophisticated. I think that's problematic, to say the least.