Quotes about Genuineness

Moreover, I, on my side, require of every writer, first or last, a simple and sincere account of his own life, and not merely what he has heard of other men's lives;

Those who tell the Truth love you. Those who tell you what you want to hear love themselves.

Your true heart is best revealed in secret. In other words, the secret you is the real you.

You use your real voice with those you love, and you cannot be phony with those who know you well.

A straightforward, honest person should be like someone who stinks: when you're in the same room with him, you know it. But false straightforwardness is like a knife in the back. False friendship is the worst. Avoid it at all costs. If you're honest and straightforward and mean well, it should show in your eyes. It should be unmistakable.

A straightforward, honest person should be like someone who stinks: when you're in the same room with him, you know it. But false straightforwardness is like a knife in the back.

Be content to seem what you really are.

We think sometimes we're only drawn to the good, but we're actually drawn to the authentic. We like people who are real more than those who hide their true selves under layers of artificial niceties.

The real deal is always going to win in the end.

Do you think that the things people make fools of themselves about are any less real and true than the things they behave sensibly about? They are more true: they are the only things that are true.

She was not coldly clever and indirectly satirical, but adorably simple and full of feeling.

I'm afraid of losing my obscurity. Genuineness only thrives in the dark. Like celery.