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Wednesday, 3 December 2008
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"As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action: you liberate a city by destroying it. Words are to confuse, so that at election time people will solemnly vote against their own interests" (Vidal, Gore - Language)

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Browse Quotations about Sincerity

A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.
A wit should no more be sincere, than a woman constant; one argues a decay of parts, as to other of beauty.
Can there be greater foolishness than the respect you pay to people collectively when you despise them individually?
Candor gives wings to strength.
Every man alone is sincere. At the entrance of a second person, hypocrisy begins.
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!
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.
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.
It doesn't matter what you believe just so long as you're sincere.
It is best to be yourself, imperial, plain and true.
It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
Nay, Madam, when you are declaiming, declaim; and when you are calculating, calculate.
Sincerity and truth are the basis of every virtue.
Sincerity gives wings to power.
Sincerity is impossible, unless it pervade the whole being, and the pretence of it saps the very foundation of character.
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 is not a spontaneous flower nor is modesty either.
Sincerity is the highest complement you can pay,
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 makes the very least person to be of more value than the most talented hypocrite.
Sincerity may be humble, but she cannot be servile.
Sincerity: if you can fake it, you've got it made.
The great man fights the elements in his time that hinder his own greatness, in other words his own freedom and sincerity.
The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity.
The way I see it, it doesn't matter what you believe just so you're sincere.
There is no greater delight than to be conscious of sincerity on self-examination.
Those most moved to tears by every word of a preacher are generally weak and a rascal when the feelings evaporate.
Those that vow the most are the least sincere.
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.
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.
Weak people cannot be sincere.
What is earnest is not always true; on the contrary, error is often more earnest than truth.
You know I say just what I think, and nothing more and less. I cannot say one thing and mean another.

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