Quotes About Sincerity

Truth and transparency are always appreciated by honest people. That, in the end, is the only thing that matters.

Let our voices be heard. I hope they will not be shrill voices, but, I hope we shall speak with such conviction that those to whom we speak shall know of the strength of our feeling and the sincerity of our efforts.

The drunk mind speaks the sober heart.

The only gift is a portion of thyself.... it is a cold, lifeless business, when you go to the shops to buy me something which does not represent your life and talent, but a goldsmith's.

What flatterers say, try to make true.

I hate careless flattery — the kind that exhausts you in your effort to believe it.

A friend may smile and bid you hail, Yet wish you with the devil; But when a good dog wags his tail, You know he's on the level.

Never apologize for showing feeling, my friend. Remember that when you do so, you apologize for truth.

All emotion is involuntary when genuine.

'T is a rule of manners to avoid exaggeration.

The face is more honest than the mouth will ever be.

[F*@%] all the people who say, "God bless," and then don't bother to complete the sentence. Who they are, I haven't the slightest. But, if I were God, I would not honor such a request.

I am looking your heart in the eye!

I may be a liar, but at least I'm a gentleman.

The highest compact we can make with our fellow, is, — 'Let there be truth between us two forevermore.'

Yes, it is always the best policy to speak the truth — unless, of course, you are an exceptionally good liar.

Oh, I am not challenging your sincerity, Ernest continued. You are sincere. You preach what you believe. There lies your strength and your value—to the capitalist class.

Steward, Daughtry. Mr. Daughtry, friend, sir, or whatever I may name you, this is no fairy-story of the open boat, the cross-bearings unnamable, and the treasure a fathom under the sand. This is real. I have a heart. That, sir"—here he waved his extended hand under Daughtry's nose—"is my hand. There is only one thing you may do, must do, right now. You must take that hand in your hand, and shake it, with your heart in your hand as mine is in my hand.

Be sincere always

And for a price, I will pretend absolutely nothing.

I preferred a hard truth to a well-meant lie.

Mayhap Bao was right, and I did fall in love as easily as other people fall out of a boat; but I loved in earnest.

It was a truth of the heart and it owed nothing to reason.

See my finger wet, see my finger dry, cut my throat if I tell a lie.