It is the weak and confused who worship the pseudosimplicities of brutal directness.
He built up a situation that was far enough from the truth. It never occurred to him that Helen was to blame. He forgot the intensity of their talk, the charm that had been lent him by sincerity, the magic of Oniton under darkness and of the whispering river. Helen loved the absolute. Leonard had been ruined absolutely, and had appeared to her as a man apart, isolated from the world. A real man, who cared for adventure and beauty, who desired to live decently and pay his way, who could have travelled more gloriously through life than the Juggernaut car that was crushing him.
The truest politeness comes of sincerity.
Technique is the test of sincerity. If a thing isn't worth getting the technique to say, it is of inferior value.
I advocate speaking words of love with all the sincerity that can be mustered, as frequently as possible.
I feel that there's hardly any irony in my work; if there's anything, there'll be sincerity, which people sometimes find hard to deal with.
To be sincere means to be the same person when one is with oneself; that is to say, alone - but that is all it means.
Mortification is the soul's vigorous opposition to self, wherein sincerity is most evident.
Not less strong than the will to truth must be the will to sincerity. Only an age, which can show the courage of sincerity, can possess truth, which works as a spiritual force within it.
It is not so important to be serious as it is to be serious about the important things.
A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.
As everything in this world is but a sham, Death is the only sincerity.
There is no sincerity like a woman telling a lie.
A false mind is false in everything, just as a cross eye always looks askant. But one may err once, nay, a hundred times, without being double-minded. There can never be mental duplicity where there is sincerity.
Loss of sincerity is loss of vital power.
There is such a thing as righteous judgment, but it seems that lately the word 'judgment' has become a curse word, period. The issue isn't whether or not we're insightful enough to avoid being judgmental, but whether or not we're secure enough to accept being judged. It is inevitable for every conscious human being to judge. It may spring from insight and experience and sincerity, and in such cases, it is quite beneficial on the receiving end.
I still feel that sincerity and realism are avant-garde, or can be, just as I did when I started out.
It is with sincere affection or friendship as with ghosts and apparitions,--a thing that everybody talks of, and scarce any hath seen.
We want deeper sincerity of motive, a greater courage in speech and earnestness in action.
God cannot honor anything, no matter its degree of sincerity, if it is contrary to His Word.