Quotes About Sincerity

God takes note of His creatures' true intentions. The Lord favors a man who intends to fast during Ramadan over a man who fasts because he can't find food to eat anyway. Because one of them means it, while the other one doesn't.

I like all the disgusting things that are fine just being themselves. What's wrong with a little honest vulgarity?

Birbirimize yalan söylemeyi hiç gerektirmeyecek bir yerdeyiz biz.

Y mientras pronunciaba estas palabras, comprendió lo difícil que era decir la verdad y resultar sincero al mismo tiempo.

Znate i sami, strah da bi vas mogli smatrati ?ovjekom kamena srca najiskreniji je osje?aj u nama.

expressing one's reality in words, as truthful as they might be, goads one to insincerity.

The "sage of love" within me (acquired from who knew what egregious experience) was crowing about Füsun's misstep: By speaking too sincerely, she had lost. From this reaction I deduced that my jealous worries and obsessions would soon subside.

No matter what your work is, says Emerson, let it be yours; no matter if you are a tinker or preacher, blacksmith or president, let what you are doing be organic, let it be in your bones, and you open the door by which the affluence of heaven and earth shall stream into you.

Thanks from keeping me from being a liar, said Nikolai. What? About your having diarrhea. For you I'd get dysentery. Now that's friendship.

I'm not a liar, sir,' she said. 'No, I'm sure you sincerely become whatever it is you're pretending to be.

People are never fair, even when they try to be...and few are the ones who try.

That was the difference between her and the idiots of the world. They were all trying to look smart and keep their social standing. Whereas Valentine didn't care about social standing, she cared about getting it right. Getting the truth.

If you always speak your mind, the evil man will avoid you.

I always tell what I believe. Whether it's true, I'm no more sure than any man.

A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.

I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being good all the time. That would be hypocrisy.

I hate people who are not serious about meals. It is so shallow of them.

To be natural is such a very difficult pose to keep up.

One's real life is so often the life that one does not lead.

Being natural is simply a pose, and the most irritating pose I know.

Gwendolen, it is a terrible thing for a man to find out suddenly that all his life he has been speaking nothing but the truth. Can you forgive me?

I've now realised for the first time in my life the vital Importance of Being Earnest.

Is insincerity such a terrible thing? I think not. It is merely a method by which we can multiply our personalities.

Never mind what I say. I am always saying what I shouldn't say. In fact, I usually say what I really think. A great mistake nowadays. It makes one so liable to be misunderstood.