The secret of success is sincerity.

There is an invisible garment woven around us from our earliest years; it is made of the way we eat, the way we walk, the way we greet people.

The secret of success is sincerity.

As soon as war is declared it will be impossible to hold the poets back. Rhyme is still the most effective drum.

There are no elements so diverse that they cannot be joined in the heart of a man.

A golf course is the epitome of all that is purely transitory in the universe; a space not to dwell in, but to get over as quickly as possible.

I have been a woman for fifty years, and I've never yet been able to discover precisely what it is I am.

The flower is the poetry of reproduction. It is an example of the eternal seductiveness of life.

Everyone, when there's war in the air, learns to live in a new element: falsehood.

When you see a woman who can go nowhere without a staff of admirers, it is not so much because they think she is beautiful, it is because she has told them they are handsome.

It's odd how people waiting for you stand out far less clearly than people you are waiting for.

There is no better way of exercising the imagination than the study of law. No poet ever interpreted nature as freely as a lawyer interprets the truth.

Faithful women are all alike, they think only of their fidelity, never of their husbands.

Education makes us more stupid than the brutes. A thousand voices call to us on every hand, but our ears are stopped with wisdom.

One of the privileges of the great is to witness catastrophes from a terrace.

Only the mediocre are always at their best.

Men should only believe half of what women say. But which half?

We all know here that the law is the most powerful of schools for the imagination. No poet ever interpreted nature as freely as a lawyer interprets the truth.

I'm not afraid of death. It's the stake one puts up in order to play the game of life.

A man has only one way of being immortal on earth: he has to forget he is a mortal.

Those who weep recover more quickly than those who smile.

I tell you, sir, the only safeguard of order and discipline in the modern world is a standardized worker with interchangeable parts. That would solve the entire problem of management.

Ask any soldier. To kill a man is to merit a woman.

Men don't deceive their wives unless they love them. When they love them most, they deceive them. It's a form of fidelity, their deceit.

The brave men die in war. It takes great luck or judgment not to be killed. Once, at least, the head has to bow and the knee has to bend to danger. The soldiers who march back under the triumphal arches are death's deserters.

The older we women grow, the more clearly we see what men really are: hypocrites, boasters, he-goats. The older men grow, the more they doll us up with every perfection.

The theatre is like a Catholic Mass of language.

There are no great people. There are only great topics.

Im not afraid of death. Its the stake one puts up in order to play the game of life.

Falsehood is the jockey of misfortune.

Sadness flies on the wings of the morning and out of the heart of darkness comes the light.

Death holds no horrors. It is simply the ultimate horror of life.

Destiny is simply the relentless logic of each day we live.

A man's name, title, and rank are artificial and impermanent; they do nothing to reveal what he really is, even to himself.

We all respect sincerity in our friends and acquaintances, but Hollywood is willing to pay for it.

Without feeling abashed by my ignorance, I confess that I am absolutely unable to say. In the absence of an appearance of learning, my answer has at least one merit, that of perfect sincerity.

What is the thing that Hollywood demands most? Sincerity. No place in the world will pay such a high price for this admirable trait.

You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a fruit fly and still have room enough for three caraway seeds and a producer's heart.

For a creative writer possession of the "truth" is less important than emotional sincerity.

The secret of success is sincerity.

My pessimism goes to the point of suspecting the sincerity of the pessimists.

Intelligent analysis of the composer's intention and strict adherence to it automatically ensures sincerity.

Sincerity makes the very least person to be of more value than the most talented hypocrite.

We ought to see far enough into a hypocrite to see even his sincerity.

Sincerity and competence is a strong combination. In politics, it is everything.

However greatly we distrust the sincerity of those we converse with, yet still we think they tell more truth to us than to anyone else.

A friend should be one in whose understanding and virtue we can equally confide, and whose opinion we can value at once for its justness and its sincerity.

On the justice of the cause of Prince Edouard, adding insurances of greatest sincerity to help it and support it and give him on all occasions of the marks of the same feelings as I have for the King his father.

The egoism which enters into our theories does not affect their sincerity; rather, the more our egoism is satisfied, the more robust is our belief.