"Always be sincere, whether you mean it or not." - Graffiti

"Men are always sincere. They change sincerities, that's all." - TRISTAN BERNARD, Ce que l'on dit aux femmes

"Give me the avowed, erect and manly foe;
Firm I can meet, perhaps return the blow;
But of all plagues, good Heaven, thy wrath can send,
Save me, oh, save me, from the candid friend."
- GEORGE CANNING, New Morality

"Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing." - RALPH WALDO EMERSON, Essays

"Civility is not a sign of weakness, and sincerity is always subject to proof." - JOHN F. KENNEDY, speech (inaugural address, 1961)

"The greatest horrors of our world, from the executions in Iran to the brutalities of the IRA, are committed by people who are totally sincere." - JOHN MORTIMER, quoted in The Observer

"Plain-dealing is a jewel, and he that useth it shall die a beggar." - HENRY PORTER, The Two Angrie Women of Abington

"A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal." - OSCAR WILDE, Intentions, The Critic as Artist

"All cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness." - TENNESSEE WILLIAMS, The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore