Quotes About Sincerity

A girl should never disguise the fact that she's a girl. It's a lot easier to convince a man that you're a fascinating female if you look the part.

For what is a man, what has he got? If not himself, then he has naught. To say the things he truly feels, and not the words of one who kneels.

For this is the most civil sort of lie That can be given to a man's face. I now Say what I think.

All men love peace in their armchairs after dinner; but they disbelieve the other nations's professions, rightly measuring its sincerity by their own.

A man is sorry to be honest for nothing.

Sometimes kindness can be delivered in a clumsy way. But it's far more sincere in its clumsiness than those distinguished men you read about in books. Your father was very clumsy.

Madam, before you flatter a man so grossly to his face, you should consider whether or not your flattery is worth his having.

A man who flatters a woman hopes either to find her a fool or to make her one.

If Hero means sincere man, why may not every one of us be a Hero?

The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity. The believing man is the original man; whatsoever he believes, he believes it for himself, not for another.

I should say sincerity, a deep, great, genuine sincerity, is the first characteristic of all men in any way heroic.

No flattery, boy! an honest man cannot live by it; it is a little, sneaking art, which knaves use to cajole and soften fools withal.

I'd rather get bad news from an honest man than lies from a flatterer.

I was just getting tired of the image bullshit...that man of mystery trip and what have you. What's that all about?

Maidens hearts are always soft: Would that men's were truer!

One fact must be familiar to all those who have any experience of human nature - a sincerely religious man is often an exceedingly bad man.

No man of high and generous spirit is ever willing to indulge in flattery; the good may feel affection for others, but will not flatter them.

I like to be like the old-school guys. They played hard, man, and they played from the heart. They didn't play to just get checks.

Charm and nothing but charm at last grows a little tiresome. It's a relief then to deal with a man who isn't quite so delightful but a little more sincere.

O King, believe not this hard-hearted man!

Whatsoever is in the heart of the sober man, is in the mouth of the drunkard.

There is nothing in which men more deceive themselves than in what they call zeal.

Fritz Mondale is not some synthetic Masked Marvel or Mystery Man. He is not made of silicon and micro-chip flakes. He is made of flesh and blood and brains.

I have a conscience, man, and I've worked really hard to keep it where you would feel like you were talking to the same man at one of my shows or sitting down at my dinner table.