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The public want sincerity from an artist. And if you can fake that, you’re made. Frankie Howerd, cited Reputations s9e1: Frankie Howerd, attributions & variations, BBC 2002
Sincerity – if you can fake that, you’ve got it made. George Burns, attributions & variations
The scientist only imposes two things, namely truth and sincerity, imposes them upon himself and upon other scientists. Erwin Schrodinger
The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one’s real and one’s declare aims, one turns as it were instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink. George Orwell, Shooting an Elephant
A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal. Oscar Wilde, Intentions, 1891
The worst vice of a fanatic is his sincerity. Oscar Wilde
Always be sincere, even if you don’t mean it. Harry S Truman
Men are never convinced of your reasons, of your sincerity, of the seriousness of your sufferings, except by your death. So long as you are alive, your case is doubtful; you have a right only to their skepticism. Albert Camus, The Fall
I’m not always sincere. One can’t be in this world, you know. Greta Garbo
Sincerity is the biggest part of selling anything – including the Christian plan of salvation. Billy Graham
If you don’t stand sincere by your words
how sincere can the people be?
Take great care over words, treasure them. Lao Tzu
Sincerity makes the very least person to be of more value than the most talented hypocrite. Charles Spurgeon
I like to have strong opinions with nothing to back them up with besides my primal sincerity. I like sincerity. I lack sincerity. Kurt Cobain
The secret of success is sincerity. Jean Giraudoux
Children go where they find sincerity and authenticity. Eric Cantona
Sincerity may be humble but she cannot be servile. Lord Byron
My pessimism goes to the point of suspecting the sincerity of the pessimists. Edmond Rostand
Frank sincerity is a quality much extolled among men and pleasing to every one, while simulation, on the contrary, is detested and condemned. Yet for a man’s self, simulation is of the two by far the more useful; sincerity tending rather to the interest of others. But since it cannot be denied that it is not a fine thing to deceive, I would commend him whose conduct is as a rule open and straightforward, and who uses simulation only in matters of the gravest importance and such as very seldom occur; for in this way he will gain a name for honesty and sincerity, and with it the advantages attaching to these qualities. At the same time, when, in any extreme emergency, he resorts to simulation, he will draw all the greater advantage from it, because from his reputation for plain dealing his artifice will blind men more. Francesco Guicciardini, Counsels and Reflections
We will find a way to make you look sincere. Better Call Saul s4e9: Wiedersehen, Kim to Jimmy, AMC 2018
I have depths of insincerity as yet unplumbed. Gore Vidal, cited Gore Vidal: The United States of Amnesia