Quotes About Sincerity

My friends all know this: I'm an open book.

I don't have secrets, my life's an open book.

I'm an open book.

Communication is number one, and we have to communicate honestly and openly with each other.

Now I can say loudly and openly what I have been saying to myself on my knees.

I tried to live my life really openly and transparently right from the get-go. I think that probably resonated with people.

I really live my life openly.

My career is based on openness and honesty.

Honesty has always been an integral part of my operation, really.

We continually say things to support an opinion, which we have given, that in reality we don't above half mean.

But what is the good of friendship if one cannot say exactly what one means? Anybody can say charming things and try to please and to flatter, but a true friend always says unpleasant things, and does not mind giving pain. Indeed, if he is a really true friend he prefers it, for he knows that then he is doing good.

I did not think I should be ever loved: do you indeed Love me so much as now you say you do? Ask of the sea-bird if it loves the sea, Ask of the roses if they love the rain, Ask of the little lark, that will not sing Till day break, if it loves to see the day: And yet, these are but empty images, Mere shadows of my love, which is a fire So great that all the waters of the main Can not avail to quench it.

there are moments when one has to choose between living one's own life, fully, entirely, completely - or dragging out some false, shallow, degrading existence that the world in its hypocrisy demands.

Now, the value of an idea has nothing whatsoever to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it. Indeed, the probabilities are the most insincere the man is, the more purely intellectual will the idea be, as in that case it will not be coloured by either his wants, his desires, or his prejudices.

I usually say what I really think. A great mistake nowadays. It makes one so liable to be misunderstood.

Pray do! I think that whenever one has anything unpleasant to say, one should always be quite candid.

I don't think that you should tell me that you love me wildly, passionately, devotedly, hopelessly.  Hopelessly doesn't seem to make much sense, does it?

I suppose one must be serious sometimes.

There was something in his face that made one trust him at once. All the candour of youth was there, as well as youth's passionate purity. One felt that he had kept himself unspotted from the world.

In every sphere of life, form is the beginning of things. […] Forms are the food of faith, cried Newman in one of those great moments of sincerity that made us admire the know the man. […] The Creeds are believed, not because they are rational, but because they are repeated.

the value of an idea has nothing whatsoever to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it.

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.

The worst vice of a fanatic is his sincerity.

Cecily is the sweetest, dearest, prettiest girl in the whole world. And I don't care twopence about social possibilities.