Quotes About Sincerity

Biddy was never insulting, or capricious, or Biddy to-day and somebody else to-morrow; she would have derived only pain, and no pleasure, from giving me pain; she would far rather have wounded her own breast than mine. How could it be, then, that I did not like her much the better of the two?

Many a gentleman lives well upon a soft head, who would find a heart of the same quality a very great drawback.

and though the merriment was rather boisterous, still it came from the heart and not from the lips; and this is the right sort of merriment, after all.

if you deserve it, and repent in action—not in words. I want no more words.

Herbert Pocket had a frank and easy way about him that was very taking. I had never seen anyone then, and I have never seen anyone since, who more strongly expressed to me, in every look and tone, a natural incapacity to do anything secret and mean. There was something wonderfully hopeful about his general air, and something that at the same time whispered to me he would never be very successful or rich.

He says, no varnish can hide the grain of the wood, and that the more varnish you put on, the more the grain will express itself.

The days sported by us, as if Time had not grown up himself yet, but were a child too, and always at play. I told Em'ly I adored her, and that unless she confessed she adored me I should be reduced to the necessity of killing myself with a sword. She said she did, and I have no doubt she did.

A word in earnest is as good as a speech

Never,' said my aunt, 'be mean in anything; never be false; never be cruel. Avoid those three vices, Trot, and I can always be hopeful of you.

No one can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.

You can be sincere and still be stupid.

I'm not a politician and my other habits air good.

When you see a man with a great deal of religion displayed in his shop window, you may depend upon it, he keeps a very small stock of it within

I'm not a joke machine. You can't just feed crap in and get funny out.

Affectation is a greater enemy to the face than smallpox.

Live truth instead of professing it.

The mercenaries and parasites of the Press, who prostitute its more than royal power, and dishonor a noble profession, will find it easy to mock at things too wonderful for them to understand; for to them the price of a paragraph is more than the value of sincerity.

No poems can please for long or live that are written by water-drinkers.

All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling.

I've never faked a sarcasm.

If you lend me your ears, I shall doubtless take your hearts too. That I may not lead you into any wrong, let me warn you of this. Never violate the sacredness of your individual self-respect. Be true to your own mind and conscience, your heart and your soul.

The teeth are smiling, but is the heart?

Style is knowing who you are, what to say, and not giving a damn.

The true value of a man is not determined by his possession, supposed or real, of Truth, but rather by his sincere exertion to get to the Truth. It is not possession of the Truth, but rather the pursuit of Truth by which he extends his powers and in which his ever-growing perfectibility is to be found. Possession makes one passive, indolent, and proud.