Sincerity Quotes - Page 6

Just play with sincerity, give the performance of your life with everything you've got.

One of my pet theories is that readers have built-in BS detectors that enable them to recognize insincerity in writers. David [Halberstam] was sincerity to the core. He believed in what he wrote, and that conviction conveyed itself to readers.

I don't doubt the sincerity of my Democratic friends. And they should not doubt ours.

The smiles that encourage severity of judgment hide malice and insincerity.

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.

And yet because of my attempt at sincerity I have been condemned, hooted at, reviled; filthy rumors have been circulated about me, not about my characterizations but about me personally, my private self.

God requires to be represented by a fiery Church... two things are intolerable to Him-insincerity and lukewarmness.

The quality of gifts depends on the sincerity of the giver.

As everything in this world is but a sham, Death is the only sincerity.

The sincerity of feeling that is possible between a writer and a reader is one of the finest things I know.

But such occasions of excellence became less and less frequent. As her technique became sounder, [her] sincerity became less necessary.

Martyrdom, as a rule, establishes the sincerity of the martyr, never the correctness of his thought. Things are true or false in themselves.

With sincerity and earnestness one can realize God through all religions.

Intelligence makes sincerity difficult.

The more ridiculous the character is, the more sincerity you have to bring to it.

Sincerity is moral truth.

It is with sincere affection or friendship as with ghosts and apparitions,--a thing that everybody talks of, and scarce any hath seen.

Few people would not be the worse for complete sincerity.

The classical artist can be recognized by his sincerity, the romantic by his laborious insincerity.

There is no sincerity like a woman telling a lie.

Ceremony and great professing renders friendship as much suspect as it does religion.

Sincerity? I can fake that.

Sorrow makes for sincerity, I think.

Holiness sincerity, and faith.

The Force which has to be called down from above must be pure and quiet because there are all kinds of forces - it will not do to call them all. And one must have sincerity.