#sincerity

Marriage always demands the greatest understanding of the art of insincerity possible between two human beings. ↗

— Vicki Baum

#art #beings #between #demands #greatest

So often the woman forgets her own greatness and she goes a little bat sh-- crazy sometimes. So its up to the other half to love that person back into the person we know them to be. ↗

— Jason Mraz

#sincerity #song-meaning #love

I’m a bona fide bon vivant. Tonight, I gave the toast. I told everyone it was spread with butter, but it was actually margarine. ↗

— Benson Bruno

#funny #humor #sincerity #funny

We were greeted by the minister whose inclusive, non-judgemental smile was no more than a whisker away from a smirk. Have I made it clear? I don't like belief systems and even less like those that peddle self-righteousness. I have no doubt the minister was a sincere man, but I am not as impressed by the idea of sincerity as the sincere seem to be. ↗

— Jenny Diski

#belief #minister #religion #sincerity #religion

People hate sincerity because it threatens that horrid structure they’re maintaining in their whole social lives. ↗

— Thanos Grigoriou

#sincerity #inspirational

There are degrees of seriousness," replied Syme. "I have never doubted that you were perfectly sincere in this sense, that you thought what you said well worth saying, that you thought a paradox might wake men up to a neglected truth. ↗

— G.K. Chesterton

#men

Insincerity is always weakness; sincerity even in error is strength. ↗

— George Henry Lewes

#always #error #even #insincerity #sincerity

If knowledge and foresight are too penetrating and deep, unify them with ease and sincerity. ↗

— Xun Zi

#ease #foresight #knowledge #penetrating #sincerity

Sincerity may be humble but she cannot be servile. ↗

— George Byron

#cannot #humble #may #servile #she

sometimes there is too much irony all piled up in the barn, and you have to / pitchfork another steaming pile of irony on top of it all, and you have to / pitchfork another, and another, and another / when the world is shit-streaked with irony that is when beauty will emerge / love is irony / purists sure hate farce / but pushing against things is the only possible way to live ↗

— Mark Leidner

#pitchforks #sincerity #beauty