(317 quotes found)
“Well, youth is the period of assumed personalities and disguises. It is the time of the sincerely insincere.”
Pablo Picasso
“My pessimism goes to the point of suspecting the sincerity of the pessimists”
Edmond Rostand
“The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity.”
Thomas Carlyle
“It is one of the most beautiful compensations of life, that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Every sincere break with Communism is a religious experience, though the Communists fail to identify its true nature, though he fail to go to the end of the experience. His break is the political expression of the perpetual need of the soul whose first faint stirring he has felt within him, years, months or days before he breaks. A Communist breaks because he must choose at last between irreconcilable opposites — God or Man, Soul or Mind, Freedom or Communism.”
Whittaker Chambers
“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
“I am not sincere, even when I say I am not.”
Jules Renard
“Next to a sincere compliment, I think I like a well-deserved and honest rebuke”
William Feather
“Let no-one be in any doubt - the Liberal Democrats are not about to cede our emphatic, sincere and long-standing green credentials for some spray on aerosol version.”
Charles Kennedy
“Grace be with all them that love our Lord Jesus Christ in sincerity. Amen.”
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