“Weak people cannot be sincere.”
“Candor gives wings to strength.”
Candor dat viribus alas
“Those that vow the most are the least sincere.”
“Sincerity is the highest complement you can pay,”
“Sincerity and truth are the basis of every virtue.”
“Sincerity: if you can fake it, you've got it made.”
“Sincerity may be humble, but she cannot be servile.”
“It is best to be yourself, imperial, plain and true.”
“The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity.”
“It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.”
“Sincerity is not a spontaneous flower nor is modesty either.”
“It doesn't matter what you believe just so long as you're sincere.”
“The way I see it, it doesn't matter what you believe just so you're sincere.”
“Every man alone is sincere. At the entrance of a second person, hypocrisy begins.”
“There is no greater delight than to be conscious of sincerity on self-examination.”
“A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.”
“Nay, Madam, when you are declaiming, declaim; and when you are calculating, calculate.”
“Sincerity makes the very least person to be of more value than the most talented hypocrite.”
“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.”
“A wit should no more be sincere, than a woman constant; one argues a decay of parts, as to other of beauty.”
“Those most moved to tears by every word of a preacher are generally weak and a rascal when the feelings evaporate.”
“Can there be greater foolishness than the respect you pay to people collectively when you despise them individually?”
“Sincerity is impossible, unless it pervade the whole being, and the pretence of it saps the very foundation of character.”
“The great man fights the elements in his time that hinder his own greatness, in other words his own freedom and sincerity.”
“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.”
“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 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.”
“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.”
“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.”