Quotes About Sincerity

This is not an heirloom," Alessandro said with grim sincerity. "I didn't take it from my family. I designed it for you and had it made. Nobody else has ever worn it and if you say no, nobody ever will.

When I was little, my grandmother gave me this advice. She said, 'Audrey, if you meet a man who is smooth, who says all the right things and knows all the tricks to make a woman happy, you've got to ask yourself how he got that way.

And I'm too old to appear anything that I'm not.

Something about Linus made me feel at ease. You knew that he was sincere and whatever he told you wouldn't be a lie.

I won't let you die, Ramona." His voice was quiet and intimate. Suddenly the cabin shrank, and she was acutely aware that his presence seemed to take up too much of it. He was still looking at her with those warm, sincere eyes she'd never expected to see.

You can't smelt happiness out of a lie. The world doesn't work that way.

Se não ama, faça como se amasse.

R]eason of itself, independent on all experience, ordains what ought to take place, that accordingly actions of which perhaps the world has hitherto never given an example, the feasibility even if which might be very much doubted by one who founds everything on experience, are nevertheless inflexibly commanded by reason; that, for example, even though there might never yet have been a sincere friend, yet not a whit the less is pure sincerity in friendship required of every man...

Urlò anche il pubblico, d'un entusiasmo non sappiamo quanto sincero, evocando alla ribalta l'autore, che non si presentò. Si chiamava Ugo Foscolo, e aveva diciannove anni.

You get so worked up and flowery! You sound as if you were quoting something all the time!

It is unfortunately for us both also the truth that I love you and only you utterly and permanently and to distraction.

He said, 'Forgive me for being a liar and a fool and an utterly worthless man.' Louise replied, 'I love you.' He took her in his arms for a moment and they held each other with closed eyes.

How absolute the knave is!

But he's joking, he doesn't mean it. When Lucas makes a joke he means it.

I wanted to drag us all down into some common pool of feeling, I wanted to stop this conventional machine of awful insincere politeness.

I daresay anything can be made holy by being sincerely worshipped.

You can't lie to your soul.

It was all that vain, egotistical insincerity of self-reproach. By blaming ourselves we take away the right of others to do the same

For a wise man, I have been told, once said, 'Gratitude is best and most effective when it does not evaporate in empty phrases.' But alas, my lady, I am but a mass of empty phrases, it would seem.

Well, he used to say that only a lie that wasn't ashamed of itself could possibly succeed. He also said that nothing had to be true, but everything had to sound true

Only a lie that wasn't ashamed of itself could possibly succeed

Gratitude is best and most effective when it does not evaporate itself in empty phrases.

Don't you think my interest can be real, even granted that it is professional, too?" "No, I don't.

Creo que Dios preferiría un ateo honesto y recto a un telepredicador que no hace más que repetir la palabra, Dios, Dios, Dios, y cuyos actos son horribles, horribles, horribles.