Quotes About Sincerity

One can acquire some virtues by feigning them for a long time.

I've caught myself a time or two adding or embellishing. I don't think that pleases the Lord. I don't think He needs my dishonesty to convey His gospel.

Now if I cry on screen I think it's mint. Because I think that's how that person would feel at that time. And if it doesn't, then it just doesn't happen.

Honesty: The best of all the lost arts.

A man is never more truthful than when he acknowledges himself a liar.

I am not given to exaggeration, and when I say a thing I mean it.

Homely truth is unpalatable.

I have too much respect for the truth to drag it out on every trifling occasion.

The frankest and freest and privatest product of the human mind and heart is a love letter...

Children and fools always speak the truth.

What a hell of a heaven it will be when they get all these hypocrites assembled there!

You can't pray a lie Huck Finn

I think we never become really and genuinely our entire and honest selves until we are dead--and not then until we have been dead years and years. People ought to start dead, and then they would be honest so much earlier.

You can't pray a lie--I found that out.

I knowed very well why they wouldn't come. It was because my heart warn't right; it was because I warn't square; it was because I was playing double.

A Russian imbues his polite things with a heartiness, both of phrase and expression, that compels belief in their sincerity.

On Theodore Roosevelt] I always enjoy his society, he is so hearty, so straightforward, outspoken and, for the moment, so absolutely sincere.

All emotion is involuntary when genuine.

or else it wouldn't be truthful and square for the others.

It is strong language, but true. None of us could _live_ with an habitual truthteller; but thank goodness none of us has to.

Children and fools _always_ speak the truth. The deduction is plain --adults and wise persons _never_ speak it.

None of us could _live_ with an habitual truth-teller; but thank goodness none of us has to.

I think that all this courteous lying is a sweet and loving art, and should be cultivated.

If I had had a drinking problem, I would have hidden it, but I didn't so I didn't.