Quotes About Sincerity

Beware of impostors talking or preaching with sweet words.

Character is what you are when no one is looking.

Don't be fooled by a sweet talker. Believe someone who's actions and mouth speak the same truths.

In other words, if there is to be any chance at all of success, there is only one way to strive for decency, reason, responsibility, sincerity, civility, and tolerance, and that is decently, reasonably, responsibly, sincerely, civilly, and tolerantly.

When you tell the truth, they don't believe you. And it was easier to tell the truth.

Lo que uno piensa y escribe cuando está solo no puede decirse que sea la verdad. La verdad es lo que uno hace en realidad, la manera en que se comporta. Las obras, no las palabras, es lo que cuenta.

You won't feel under-dressed when with your naked heart you come to me, for mine is past the point to dress for company.

Love is a quality, not a quantity.

And the greatest tragedy of our age is we don't listen to our consciences. We don't say what we think. We feel one thing and do another.

In the kingdom of glass everything is transparent, and there is no place to hide a dark heart.

La sincérité toujours surmonte les obstacles.

on Paulette Goddard] It was her honesty I liked.

You can fake your age or mask it, but the passion that moves the characters has to be real.

Writing to impress others is the surest path to pretentious mediocrity.

Perfect sincerity and transparency make a great part of beauty, as in dewdrops, lakes, and diamonds.

Don't try to be what you're not. If you're nervous, be nervous. If you're shy, be shy. It's cute.

Beauty is sincerity.There are so many different ways someone can be beautiful.

The most natural beauty in the world is honesty and moral truth. For all beauty is truth.

Not a beauty queen. Not one of those. You know the ones. She was real.

What is really beautiful must always be true.

Affectation is an awkward and forced imitation of what should be genuine and easy, wanting the beauty that accompanies what is natural.

A wit should no more be sincere, than a woman constant; one argues a decay of parts, as to other of beauty.

Nothing can be beautiful which is not true.

The way I see it, there is no greater spiritual beauty than fanaticism, of a sort so sincere it can only end in martyrdom.