Sincere Quotes

746 Sincere quotes by 570 unique authors

When you sit face to face with someone who is pleasant, respectful, and polite, you have hard time reminding yourself that nothing he says is… — Milan Kundera
Especially difficult when the first and best unconscious move of a dedicated liar is to persuade himself he's sincere. And once he's sincere, all deception… — Ian Mcewan
Exactly how am I supposed to work in a thank-you in there? Somehow it just won't seem sincere if I'm trying to slit his throat. — Suzanne Collins
I'm tired of praise; and love is very sweet, when it is simple and sincere like this. — Louisa May Alcott
Inez? I'm sorry I bit you," he said with sincere regret, and then inspiration made him add, "Bastien made me do it. — Lynsay Sands
He had two lives: one, open, seen and known by all who cared to know, full of relative truth and of relative falsehood, exactly like… — Anton Chekhov
There are some situations which men understand by instinct, by which reason is powerless to explain; in such cases the greatest poet is he who… — Alexandre Dumas
I do assure you, Sir, that I have no pretension whatever of that kind of elegance which consists in tormenting a respectable man. I would… — Jane Austen
Every man alone is sincere. At the entrance of a second person, hypocrisy begins — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Anne’s horizons had closed in since the night she had sat there after coming home from Queen’s; but if the path set before her feet… — Lucy Maud Montgomery
My desire, my sincere and heartfelt desire is to rip that surprisingly sheer garment from your body, toss you onto that bed, and indeed ravish… — Victoria Alexander
If I'm sincere today, what does it matter if I regret it tomorrow? — Jose Saramago
I see what you mean. It must be a huge relief, and an easy way out, to think the devil is always outside of us.… — Elif Safak
I see. So you playacted the role of a rake who was only pretending to be in earnest, knowing you would come across as though… — Gaelen Foley
How can we lose when we're so sincere? — Charles M. Schulz
We should treat all the trivial things of life seriously, and all the serious things of life with sincere and studied triviality. — Oscar Wilde
Things being investigated, knowledge became complete. Their knowledge being complete, their thoughts were sincere. Their thoughts being sincere, their hearts were then rectified. Their hearts… — Confucius
It was one of those dangerous moments when speech is at once sincere and deceptive - when feeling, rising high above its average depth, leaves… — George Eliot
Sometimes kindness can be delivered in a clumsy way. But it's far more sincere in its clumsiness than those distinguished men you read about in… — Ruta Sepetys
If I were to be totally sincere, I would say that I do not know why I live and why I do not stop living.… — Emile M. Cioran
I think that personality traits that come through when somebody is really sincere is what makes them beautiful. — Taylor Swift
I have been judged vehemently suspect of heresy, that is, of having held and believed that the sun in the centre of the universe and… — Galileo Galilei
I wish I could be honest and true, but truth as I see it is not something abstract, a pious generality---It is justice at work,… — F. Sionil JosÃ©
Is yours an honest lament? ... Most are not, you know. Most self-imposed burdens are founded on misperceptions. We - at least we of sincere… — R A Salvatore
She looked much younger than her age, indeed, which is almost always the case with women who retain serenity of spirit, sensitiveness and pure sincere… — Fyodor Dostoevsky

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