Quotes about Sincerity

Affection is like the noonday sun; it does not need the presence of another to be manifest.

There is no such thing as white lies; a lie is as black as a coalpit, and twice as foul.

No man is a hypocrite in his pleasures.

I think you have to be what you are. Don't try to be somebody else. You have to be yourself at all times.

I try to keep in my mind the simple question: Am I trying to do good or make myself look good? Too many of our responsibilities get added to our plate when we are trying to please people, impress people, prove ourselves, acquire power, increase our prestige. All those motivations are about looking good more than doing good.

As long as we are faking it we are just showing the world how to fake it - but they already are! They want to see us get real.

Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive.

I think people can stand to take themselves just a little less seriously. I'm fighting the war against pretension.

No one ever doubts that I mean what I say. The problem is I sometimes say all that I mean.

I don't say very much I don't really think through. I know that sounds inconsistent with Joe Biden.

He's exasperated. "I'm saying I'm in love with you! I've been in love with you this whole bleeding year!

To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man.