Quotes About Sincerity

I like a look of Agony, because I know it's true - men do not sham Convulsion, nor simulate, a Throe

By men's words we know them.

The mark of a man of the world is absence of pretension.

The mark of an honest man... is that he means what he says and knows what he means.

Hypocrisy is folly. It is much easier, safer, and pleasanter to be the thing which a man aims to appear, than to keep up the appearance of being what he is not.

Honest men love women; those who deceive them adore them.

A Wolf eats sheep but now and then; Ten thousands are devour'd by men. An open foe may prove a curse, but a pretend friend is worse.

The same man cannot be both Friend and Flatterer.

If conversion makes no improvements in a man's outward actions then I think his 'conversion' was largely imaginary.

The life of an honest man must be a perpetual infidelity.

Even a man's exact imitation of the song of the nightingale displeases us when we discover that it is a mimicry, and not the nightingale.

The Lord says: "These people come near to me with their mouth and honor me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me. Their worship of me is made up only of rules taught by men."

A man of faith will remain steadfast to truth even though the whole world might appear to be enveloped in falsehood.

I am not an economist. I am an honest man!

The only infallible rule we know is, that the man who is always talking about being a gentleman never is one.

Every man wishes to be wise, and they who cannot be wise are almost always cunning.

The whole faculties of man must be exerted in order to call forth noble energies; and he who is not earnestly sincere lives in but half his being, self-mutilated, self-paralyzed.

Men are always sincere. They change sincerities, that's all.

I like performers who I know are for real. You can tell, man, there's an intensity about their stuff. You can tell right away they're real people, ya know?

Men are convinced of your arguments, your sincerity, and the seriousness of your efforts only by your death.

There is but one way I know of conversing safely with all men; that is, not by concealing what we say or do, but by saying or doing nothing that deserves to be concealed.

No man flatters the woman he truly loves.

Candor is a proof of both a just frame of mind, and of a good tone of breeding. It is a quality that belongs equally to the honest man and to the gentleman.

The superior man * * * in regard to his speech * * * is anxious that it should be sincere.