It is best to be yourself, imperial, plain and true.
Sincerity may be humble, but she cannot be servile.
The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity.
Can there be greater foolishness than the respect you pay to people collectively when you despise them individually?
Sincerity is not a spontaneous flower nor is modesty either.
Sincerity and truth are the basis of every virtue.
A wit should no more be sincere, than a woman constant; one argues a decay of parts, as to other of beauty.
Truth of a modest sort I can promise you, and also sincerity. That complete, praiseworthy sincerity which, while it delivers one into the hands of one's enemies, is as likely as not to embroil one with one's friends.
What is earnest is not always true; on the contrary, error is often more earnest than truth.
Every man alone is sincere. At the entrance of a second person, hypocrisy begins.
Sincerity is the luxury allowed, like diadems and authority, only to the highest rank. Every man alone is sincere. At the entrance of a second person, hypocrisy begins.
Sincerity is the highest complement you can pay,
Nay, Madam, when you are declaiming, declaim; and when you are calculating, calculate.
Weak people cannot be sincere.
You know I say just what I think, and nothing more and less. I cannot say one thing and mean another.
Sincerity is impossible, unless it pervade the whole being, and the pretence of it saps the very foundation of character.
There is no greater delight than to be conscious of sincerity on self-examination.
Candor gives wings to strength.
— Motto
The great man fights the elements in his time that hinder his own greatness, in other words his own freedom and sincerity.
Those most moved to tears by every word of a preacher are generally weak and a rascal when the feelings evaporate.
— Sallust
Sincerity: if you can fake it, you've got it made.
The way I see it, it doesn't matter what you believe just so you're sincere.
It doesn't matter what you believe just so long as you're sincere.
It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
Those that vow the most are the least sincere.
Sincerity makes the very least person to be of more value than the most talented hypocrite.
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.
I only desire sincere relations with the worthiest of my acquaintance, that they may give me an opportunity once in a year to speak the truth.
Sincerity is like traveling on a plain, beaten road, which commonly brings a man sooner to his journey's end than by-ways, in which men often lose themselves.
Sincerity gives wings to power.
We are very apt to measure ourselves by our aspiration instead of our performance. But in truth the conduct of our lives is the only proof of the sincerity of our hearts.
A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.
Everyone says he's sincere, but everyone isn't sincere. If everyone was sincere who says he's sincere there wouldn't be half so many insincere ones in the world and there would be lots, lots, lots more really sincere ones!