Quotes About Sincerity

True eloquence consists of saying all that should be said, and that only.

For that man is detested by me as the gates of hell, whose outward words conceal his inmost thoughts.

For seldom shall she hear a tale So sad, so tender, yet so true.

I will a round unvarnish'd tale deliver.

English proverb

Take a winter as you find him and he turns out to be a thoroughly honest fellow with no nonsense in him: and tolerating none in you, which is a great comfort in the long run.

My way of joking is to tell the truth. It's the funniest joke in the world.

I have too much respect for the truth to drag it out on every trifling occasion.

Fair words butter no parsnips.

True eloquence consists of saying all that should be, not all that could be, said.

The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns as if it were instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink.

There are some, however, that know the prejudice of mankind in favour of modest sincerity. The vendor of the beautifying fluid sells a lotion that repels pimples, washes away freckles, smooths the skin, and plumps the flesh; and yet, with a generous abhorrence of ostentation, confesses, that it will not restore the bloom of fifteen to a lady of fifty.

I love you. You are my heart beating outside of my chest.

I've eliminated everything else. This is what's left. And when you've eliminated everything else, what's left should be true.

Love, when it's real, doesn't hang on conditions.

In der gegenwärtigen 'Kultur' geben sich wenige die Mühe, zwischen Aufrichtigkeit und dem Vorspielen von Aufrichtigkeit zu unterscheiden - ja, wenige sind zu dieser Unterscheidung überhaupt in der Lage -, wie auch nur wenige zwischen religiösem Glauben und dem Einhalten religiöser Vorschriften unterscheiden.

Is this love - this easy generosity, this sense of being understood at last, of not having to pretend?

De hecho, tiene más. Porque al menos yo no finjo ser lo que no soy.

As you speak I swear I can hear words being selected, one after another, from the word-box you carry around with you, and slotted into place. That is not how a true native speak, one who is born into a language.' 'How does a native speak?' 'From the heart. Words well up within and he sings them, sings along with them. So to speak.

Es esto el amor, esta generosidad natural, este sentimiento de ser comprendido por fin, de no tener que fingir?

Porque carece de talento para mentir, engañar o saltarse las normas, igual que tampoco lo tiene para el placer y la ropa moderna. Solo tiene talento para la tristeza, la tristeza sincera y aburrida.

Today, people are inclined to think that the sincerity and fervency of one's beliefs are more important than the content. As long as we believe something honestly and strongly, we are told, then that is all that really matters. Reality is basically indifferent to how sincerely we believe something.

In a quiet voice, he said, How long's this been going on for you? With her. John took out a small pad he'd brought with him and wrote: Since the moment I first met her. After Rehv read the scribble, he frowned. She feel the same way? John did not drop his eyes as he shook his head. No sense hiding shit. Not with a symphath. Rehv nodded once. That's so like her. Goddamn it...okay, let's do this.

not in the stupid-ass Miley Cyrus poser-sex way—and