Quotes about Authenticity
Being natural is simply a pose, and the most irritating pose I know.
- Oscar Wilde
All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling. To be natural is to be obvious, and to be obvious is to be inartistic.
- Oscar Wilde
I don't want to earn my living, I want to live.
- Oscar Wilde
Cheap editions of great books may be delightful, but cheap editions of great men are absolutely detestable
- Oscar Wilde
It's tragic how few people ever 'possess their souls' before they die. 'Nothing is more rare in any man', says Emerson, 'than an act of his own.' It is quite true. Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their life is a mimicry, their passions a quotation.
- Oscar Wilde
True friends stab you in the front
- Oscar Wilde
I don't like compliments and I don't see why a man should think he is pleasing a woman enormously when he says to her a whole heap of things that he doesn't mean.
- Oscar Wilde
It is tragic how few people ever 'possess their souls' before they die. 'Nothing is more rare in any man,' says Emerson, 'than an act of his own.' It is quite true. Most people are other people. Their thoughts are some one else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.
- Oscar Wilde
If you look at their intentions, examine their motives, and scrutinize what brings them contentment — how can people hide who they are? How can they hide who they really are?
- Confucius
Truth has no temperature.
- Cormac McCarthy
You shouldnt worry about what people think of you because they dont do it that often
- Cormac McCarthy
I only know that every act which has no heart will be found out in the end.
- Cormac McCarthy