SINCERITY QUOTES IV

quotations about sincerity

He who is sincere hath the easiest task in the world, for truth being always consistent with itself, he is put to no trouble about his words and actions.

J. BEAUMONT

attributed, Day's Collacon


Sincerity is all that counts. It's a widespread modern heresy. Think again. Bolsheviks are sincere. Fascists are sincere. Lunatics are sincere. People who believe the earth is flat are sincere. They can't all be right.

TOM DRIBERG

Colonnade: 1937-1947


There is no greater delight than to be conscious of sincerity on self-examination.

MENCIUS

Works


Sincerity is the parent of truth.

OLIVER GOLDSMITH

attributed, Day's Collacon

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Sincerity and plain dealing are conducive to the interest of mankind at large because they afford that ground of confidence and reasonable expectation which are essential to wisdom and virtue.

W. GODWIN

attributed, Day's Collacon


Sincerity is a high quality, but its virtues are only efficacious when discreetly applied. Human beings, at the best, are but bundles of prejudices and humours, which it will not do to cut through too abruptly, lest the ties which bind them to ourselves be also severed, and the friendship of years fall to pieces in a day. The prudent surgeon, at the same time that he exerts his skill to excise, is careful not to lacerate, lest the patient die of mortification. In order to be sincere, it is not necessary to say the whole of what we think: enough that we do not, for the sake of being agreeable, say that which we feel to be untrue. In our most intimate friends there are numerous failings which we have no right to point out, manifold weaknesses we must not make weaker by tearing; and although we are wise to look as deeply into a well as our perceptions will allow us, there may be a thousand little truths at the bottom which it would be cruel to fish up.

CHARLES WILLIAM DAY

The Maxims, Experiences, and Observations of Agogos

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You seem to be going in for sincerity today. It isn't becoming to you, really -- except as an obvious pose. Be as artificial as you are, I advise. There's a sort of sincerity in that, you know. And, after all, you must confess you like that better.

EUGENE O'NEILL

The Hairy Ape

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Now there's two ways we can do this, keep it real or front.

DMX

"Sincerity"


Be sincere with your compliments. Most people can tell the difference between sugar and saccharine.

E. C. MCKENZIE

14,000 Quips and Quotes: For Speakers, Writers, Editors, Preachers and Teachers


Sincerity doesn't mean anything. A person can be sincere and be more destructive than a person who is insincere.

EDWARD ALBEE

Wagner Literary Magazine, 1962

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I cried myself to sleep
But now I'm so over you
And I see what you do
Your sincerity's kinda cheap

KYLIE MINOGUE

"Obsession"


Sincerity is admirable, but circumstances -- what the insincere call "reality" -- called for compromises.

MICHAEL HOFFMAN

"Meiji Restoration leader's lessons of sincerity", Japan Times, December 10, 2016


Sincerity, even if it speaks with a stutter, will sound eloquent when inspired.

EIJI YOSHIKAWA

Taiko

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The sincerity of a true man so pervades his whole spirit and beautifies his language, that his society is the most attractive; his speech the most forcible; and his influence the most benign; let us develop and enforce these three points.

ELIAS LYMAN MAGOON

Proverbs for the People


We need expect little sincerity or trustworthy aid from him who is convinced that double-dealing and deceit are the principles that guide all men in their conduct through life.

FRANCESCO GUICCIARDINI

attributed, Day's Collacon


I set myself on fire
Just to see
Sincerity go up in smoke

TEXTBOOK TRAITORS

"A Notre Temps (A Toast to Errors)"