“It is not for minds like ours to give or to receive flatter; yet the praises of sincerity have ever been permitted to the voice of friendship”
Lord Byron
“But what is the good of friendship if one cannot say exactly what one means? Anybody can say charming things and try to please and to flatter, but a true friend always says unpleasant things, and does not mind giving pain. Indeed, if he is a really true friend he prefers it, for he knows that then he is doing good.”
Oscar Wilde
“What is uttered from the heart alone, Will win the hearts of others to your own.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“The true hypocrite is the one who ceases to perceive his deception, the one who lies with sincerity”
Andre Gide
“How can sincerity be a condition of friendship? A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing.”
Albert Camus
“A good friend can tell you what is the matter with you in a minute. He may not seem such a good friend after telling.”
Arthur Brisbane
“A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
