James Russell Lowell Quotes

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

High rank and soft manners may not always belong to a true heart.

I don't want to lie. I dislike dishonesty. And I work in Hollywood, a town and a business that relies on a lot of falsehoods with people hiding behind different facades. I don't want to be a part of that.

The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you've got it made.

Why lie? I'm not going to be a hypocrite and say the opposite of what I think, like some others do.

I do not believe in hypocrisy.

It's discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.

If we divine a discrepancy between a man's words and his character, the whole impression of him becomes broken and painful; he revolts the imagination by his lack of unity, and even the good in him is hardly accepted.

Sincerity is moral truth.

Integrity is incredibly important to me. As long as you're authentic, you can do no wrong.

[Ross Perot] thinks that proclaiming honesty is the same as being honest.

I try as much as possible not to utter a single line that I don't believe in.

You might not get it right all the time, but you have to be genuine in your intent.

What the world needs is people with integrity, people with genuine thoughts and intentions.

The virtuous will be sure to speak uprightly; but those whose speech is upright may not be virtuous.

Fewer possess virtue, than those who wish us to believe that they possess it.

The end does not justify the means. If we try to be someone we are not in order to achieve a result, then the result cannot help but be something other than what we intended.

A man may be very sincere in good principles, without having good practice.

It is dishonorable to say one thing and think another; how much more dishonorable to write one thing and think another.

I think it's important to just be a good, honest person and be true to who you are.

In Gerald Ford, the man he was in public, he was also that man in private.

I'm nothing if not honest.

A good man often appears gauche simply because he does not take advantage of the myriad mean little chances of making himself look stylish. Preferring truth to form, he is not constantly at work upon the facade of his appearance.

At least I can say that I'm honest.

We are not hypocrites in our sleep.