Quotes About Sincerity

Martyrs have been sincere. And so have tyrants. Wise men have been sincere. And so have fools.

I never say anything of a man that I have the smallest scruple of saying to him.

I should wish to die if a man who is impure should parade his purity in front of me.

The honest and good man ought to be exactly like a man who smells strong, so that the bystander as soon as he comes near him must smell whether he choose or not.

Hypocrites weep, and you cannot tell their tears from those of saints; but no bad man ever laughed sweetly yet.

But you can wake a man only if he is really asleep. No effort that you make will produce any effect upon him if he is merely pretending sleep.

It would be a kind of ferocity to reject indifferently all sorts of praise. One should be glad to have that which comes from good men who praise in sincerity things that are really praiseworthy.

Unless men establish their complete happiness in God, they will never give themselves truly and sincerely to him.

There is no point in asking a man a question until you have established whether he has any reason to lie to you.

The truly great man dwells on what is real and not what is on the surface.

It is not the being seen of men that is wrong, but doing these things for the purpose of being seen of men. The problem with the hypocrite is his motivation.

An orator is a man who says what he thinks and feels what he says.

Such antics do not amount to a man.

Of all things in the world that stink in the nostrils of men, hypocrisy is the worst.

...but I should say that kindliness, and sincerity, and if I may say so--modesty--are worth far more to a man, to a husband, than all the wit and beauty in the world.

The man whose eye is single for the glory of Another can be trusted.

Men sometimes think they hate flattery, but they hate only the manner of flattering.

You are an honest and honorable man...Ofttimes I forget that. I have met so few of them in my life.

Men should be what they seem.

It is easiest to "be all things to all men," but it is not honest. Self-respect must be sacrificed every hour in the day.

An honest man is strange when he is among dishonest men, but it is a good kind of strangeness.

There is much coldness among men because we do not dare to be as cordial as we really are.

Not on the stage alone, in the world also, a man's real character comes out best in his asides.

The natural man will probably be manly. The affected man cannot be so.