Quotes About Sincerity

Bugger niceness. It was overrated.

He who says he hates all kinds of flattery, and says so in earnest, has undoubtedly not as yet become acquainted with all kinds of it, whether in substance or in form.

sometimes, if you're sincere about what you have to say, if you want to communicate the full force of human emotions like grief and longing and gratitude, you try writing and then realize that your words are just as transient as you are, that they always fail you when you need them most, and that if they can't serve their purpose and convey meaning perfectly—if they can't reach the unborn and the dead—then they're better off buried or burned.2

Thank God kids never mean well

I distrust the wisdom if not the sincerity of friends who would hold my hands while my enemies stab me.

One must meet in the middle of the village green for all to attest to one's lack of guile or conceal it absolutely.

Aldous Huxley, a British novelist born in the late 1800s, said, "The Lord's Prayer is repeated daily by millions who have not the slightest intention of letting anyone's will be done but their own.

The truth is so rare, Alex. I like to use it sparingly

I love you. Didn't you know that? I want to love you the way I wasn't able to before. Without holding back. Without either of us holding back.

The artist striving for truth or sincerity had to guard his spontaneous vision against distortion or alteration by aesthetic conventions or preconceptions.

But trying to be genuine was harder than it seemed

Everybody wants me to be what they want me to be but I'm not happy when I try to fake it.

trying to be a good mother may be as distant from being a good mother as trying to have a good time is from truly having one.

Got nothing to do with trying. You like someone, or you don't. If you're 'trying', you don't.

No such thing as larger-than-life, Kellogg. There's only life-size, and any magnification is just other people's bullshit.

Obsequiousness was a quality that you bought. Fraudulence merely made the fawning seem more expensive.

I'd like to say I'm not dressed up for anyone in particular, but that would be a lie.

sharing one's true feelings at home makes it a lot easier to be charming out in public.

When you do choose to speak," she told me, "speak truths.

Don't make promises," she says, "just do what you can do. Just be what you can be. However flawed that it is.

Zach said, "I love you, Lula, I love you so much," she didn't stop for even a second before replying that she loved him too. Because right then, for that moment in time, she really did.

She has a ten-year-old son and a face like a sincere apology for something that really isn't her fault.

Dear Miss Independent, I've decided that of all the women I've ever known, you are the only one I will ever love more than hunting, fishing, football, and power tools. You may not know this, but the other time I asked you to marry me, the night I put the crib together, I meant it. Even though I knew you weren't ready. God, I hope you're ready now. Marry me, Ella. Because no matter where you go or what you do, I'll love you every day for the rest of my life. —Jack

My love is upon you.