Sincerity Quotes

Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth. I sat at a table where were rich food and wine in abundance, and obsequious attendance, but sincerity and truth were not; and I went away hungry from the inhospitable board.

Henry David Thoreau, "Walden, " the Conclusion

Marriage always demands the finest arts of insincerity possible between two human beings.

Vicki Baum

What people call insincerity is simply a method by which we can multiply our personalities.

Oscar Wilde

A friend should be one in whose understanding and virtue we can equally confide, and whose opinion we can value at once for its justness and its sincerity.

Robert Hall

To be able to practice five things everywhere under heaven constitutes perfect virtue... They are gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness, and kindness.

Confucius, The Confucian Analects

The great enemy of clear language is insincerity.

George Orwell

The English think incompetence is the same thing as sincerity.

Quentin Crisp

A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.

Oscar Wilde

After two years in Washington, I often long for the realism and sincerity of Hollywood.

Fred Thompson, Speech before the Commonwealth Club of California

My pessimism extends to the point of even suspecting the sincerity of the pessimists.

Jean Rostand, Journal of a Character, 1931

My pessimism extends to the point of even suspecting the sincerity of other pessimists.

Jean Rostand

Judge thyself with the judgment of sincerity, and thou will judge others with the judgment of charity.

John Mitchell Mason

Hold faithfulness and sincerity as first principles.

Confucius, The Confucian Analects

Sincerity is the way of Heaven.

Mencius, Works

To be able to practice five things everywhere under heaven constitutes perfect virtue... They are gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness, and kindness.

Confucius

When you are obliged to make a statement that you know will cause displeasure, you must say it with every appearance of sincerity; this is the only way to make it palatable.

Paul De Gondi

To be able under all circumstances to practice five things constitutes perfect virtue; these five things are gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness and kindness.

Confucius