Quotes About Sincerity

There are moments on most days when I feel a deep and sincere gratitude, when I sit at the open window, and there is a blue sky or moving clouds.

My mother sits on my shoulder, and my mother: 'Be nice to everyone, son. Make sure you talk to everyone. Ask them a personal question, son. At least pretend like you're sincere.' And her final thing: 'Whoever you meet, make sure they leave your presence happy

I was saying the right things, but not the really true things.

Baloney is the lie laid on so thick you hate it. Blarney is flattery laid on so thin you love it.

Baloney is the unvarnished lie laid on so thick you hate it. Blarney is flattery laid on so thin you love it.

Nothing in this world is harder than speaking the truth, nothing easier than flattery.

a rogue can generally express himself better than an honest man.

I'm honest. It's the world that's awful - Sandor Clegane, The Hound. ASOIAF

J'étais si heureux de sentir mon cœur capable d'un amour nouveau !... J'empruntais, dans cet enthousiasme factice, les formules mêmes qui, si peu de temps auparavant, m'avaient servi pour peindre un amour véritable et longtemps éprouvé. La lettre partie, j'aurais voulu la retenir, et j'allais rêver dans la solitude à ce qui me semblait une profanation de mes souvenirs.

I love you, ... It is hard for me to say, because sometimes it doesn't seem like it is enough.

Does it count for anything that I just told you I love you?" Gable asked. I considered this briefly before deciding that it didn't. "Not really. Not when I know you don't mean it.

I love you," Daedalus said. "It is hard for me to say, because sometimes it doesn't seem like it is enough.

But people —the ordinary, the decent and basically honest— couldn't get through the day without that one indispensable bit of programming, that allowed you to say one thing and mean, feel, even do, another.

No one else seems as real as he does.

She never says she loves a book if she doesn't.

I want you. Stop playing games.

When I wept and told him I was afraid I was too intense, too much, he interrupted my tears and said, "If someone came down from above and told me I could keep only one thing about you, it would be your too-muchness.

I'm not sure I know what 'simple-hearted' means," I said haughtily. "When there's no deceit or malice in your heart. Most of us have some; it protects us. People without it are rare.

50, there is a new warmth and mellowing. Friends become more important than ever, but so does privacy. Since it is so often proclaimed by people past midlife, the motto of this stage might be "No more bullshit.

En este amor no entré por desvarío, ni lo traté, como otros, con engaños, ni fue por elección de mi albedrío: desde mis tiernos y primeros años a aquella parte m'enclinó mi estrella y aquel fiero destino de mis daños.

Gary D. Schmidt

In an industry where people merely *play* heroes, he was the real thing.

A man will believe anything that does not cost him anything," said

Be honest to all people all the time.