Famous Quotes & Sayings

Samuel Smiles

The truest politeness comes of sincerity.

Ugo Betti

The spontaneity of slaps is sincerity, whereas the ceremonial of caresses is largely convention.

Zane Grey

These critics who crucify me do not guess the littlest part of my sincerity. They must be burned in a blaze. I cannot learn from them.

Samuel Johnson

Nay, Madam, when you are declaiming, declaim; and when you are calculating, calculate.

Martin Farquhar Tupper

Better is the wrong with sincerity, rather than the right with falsehood.

Leo Tolstoy

Teach French and unteach sincerity.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

If we could have any security against moods! If the profoundest prophet could be holden to his words, and the hearer who is readyto sell all and join the crusade, could have any certificate that to-morrow his prophet shall not unsay his testimony!

Jules Renard

I am not sincere, even when I say I am not.

John F. Kennedy

Sincerity is always subject to proof.

John Hodgman

You are only pretentious if you are not sincere.

Charles Dickens

There is no substitute for thoroughgoing, ardent, and sincere earnestness.

Charles M. Schulz

How can we lose when we're so sincere?

Augusten Burroughs

but I am not here ironically; I am here sincerely.

Confucius

In a district of ten families, there must be someone as honorable and sincere as I, but none as fond of learning.

Alice Walker

Peace will come wherever it is sincerely invited.

Robert Herrick

Things are evermore sincere; / Candor here, and lustre there / Delighting.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

For in religion as in friendship, they who profess most are ever the least sincere.

Stephen Sondheim

I was raised to be charming, not sincere.