Quotes About Sincerity

Honesty shakes the foundation of civilization.

Give me your honest opinion. I don't want truth with a veil on—I like naked ladies naked.

I absolutely love you, Briony, and I am on my knees. So we're getting married - right? But say it fast before we get shot. Only Jack would ask - if you could call it asking - in the middle of a battlefield, with a man lying dead at his feet.

Say yes, Francesca. I didn't think it was possible to feel anything real for a woman. I just couldn't. I tried, but nothing was there. I knew I was capable of loving because I love my sister and brothers fiercely. With everything in me. But what a man feels for a woman, 'the' woman, eluded me until you. Until I saw you.

Tell me about yourself. Everything you can think of. Look only at me. Look into my eyes. See me. Only me.

I need you, malen'koye plamya, just to breathe, to live . I've never said that to another human being, but it's the truth. Not for Shturm, but for me.

I'm in love with you Ashe. I'm not offering you a lot in the way of white picket fences and social status, but I can tell you that I'll love you with every breath I take.

He'd meant what he'd said when he'd told her he didn't want to ever see her hurt or with tears in her eyes. He knew never was a long time, but he would still do his best to make that promise count.

His palm cupped her face, moved lovingly to her slender neck, his thumb feathering over her soft skin. He ached with love for her. "I promise to be careful." "Really careful," she insisted. He found the hard edges of his mouth turning up. "Really really careful," he clarified.

He caught her hand, curling his fingers around hers and bringing it to his chest as he leaned into her. I'm sorry for being a dick. Sometimes I just am, but I'll watch it. Giovanni snorted his derision. Sometimes? Don't believe a fucking thing he says, Mariko. It's 'all' the time.

There is no conceit equal to false modesty, and there is no politics like antipolitics

There is, especially in the American media, a deep belief that insincerity is better than no sincerity at all.

I shall simply say that those who offer false consolation are false friends.

The nineteen suicide murderers of New York and Washington and Pennsylvania were beyond any doubt the most sincere believers on those planes. Perhaps we can hear a little less about how 'people of faith' possess moral advantages that others can only envy.

Live how you live, feel how you feel and fuck all the phonies in your way.

Love deeply grounded, hardly is dissembled.

If these delights thy mind may move, Then live with me, and be my love.

Animals might put up with that smiley shit, but people will eventually kill you for it.

There are those who, deprived of physical beauty, develop a sincerity and beauty of spirit that seems to eclipse their appearance. They marry for love, stay married, and raise happy children who are quick to laugh and slow to judge.

A question asked in earnest, deserves an earnest answer.

We have an arrangement," said I. "And further slaughter of my cohorts will cause me to doubt your sincerity.

Whatever you make, base it upon that which is most important to you. Only then will it have depth and meaning, and only then will it resonate with others.

I would replace the quality of sincerity with honesty, since one can hold a conviction sincerely without examining it, while honesty would require that one subject one's convictions to frequent scrutiny.

En ocasiones, revelar la medida justa de la verdad era mejor que mentir descaradamente.