Quotes About Sincerity

Politically I am absolutely honest, which is to say, as honest as possible; which is to say, honest more or less; which is to say, far more honest than the general.

Too much truth is uncouth.

One must not cheat anybody, not even the world of one's triumph.

You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a firefly and still have room enough for three caraway seeds and a producer's heart.

You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a fruit fly and still have room enough for three caraway seeds and a producer's heart.

It's not about how much movement you do, how much interaction there is, it just reeks of credibility if it's real. If it's contrived, it seems to work for a while for the people who can't filter out the real and unreal.

All I can do is be myself. I've had the grace to be able to do that. I walk into the studio and I think, 'Let some word that is heard be Thine.

The greatest gift you ever give is your honest self.

After two years in Washington, I often long for the realism and sincerity of Hollywood.

I'm not into business at all.

There is only one real failure in life that is possible, and that is, not to be true to the best one knows.

The life of the nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.

It is only in love and murder that we still remain sincere.

We are franker towards others than towards ourselves.

One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth.

Of all that is written, I love only what a person has written with his own blood.

Never to talk about yourself is a refined form of hypocrisy.

The hypocrite who always plays one and the same part ceases at last to be a hypocrite.

Sincerity in this case is not just honesty. It's something deeper than that. The word is used to indicate a state that is completely open and unaffected. It is us, as we truly are, without any attempt to disguise ourselves, even in the ways we usually disguise ourselves to ourselves.

The only time you seem honest is when you're insulting someone!" "The only honest things I can say to you are insults.

In the end, I must proclaim that no good can be achieved of false means. For the substance of our existence is not in the achievement, but in the method.

Don't worry that you aren't giving people what they want. Give them who you are, and let that be enough.

The best liars are those who tell the truth most of the time.

However a man who was honest and clever was always, ALWAYS more difficult to scam than someone who was both dishonest and clever. Sincerity. It was so difficult , by definition, to fake.