Friendship Sincerity Quotes

#1. Ceremony and great professing renders friendship as much suspect as it does religion.

William Wycherley

#2. It is with sincere affection or friendship as with ghosts and apparitions,
a thing that everybody talks of, and scarce any hath seen.

Francois De La Rochefoucauld

#3. It is not the amount of friends that is important, but the amount of integrity, sincerity, and love in your friends

Charles F. Glassman

#4. I'm scared, all right?" I said. I could feel my stomach churn as my gaze rested on the wooden trunk.
Nathan turned my chin, looking at me with an expression of utter sincerity. "You don't have to be. I'm here.

Markelle Grabo

#5. Sincere deeds invite new friends.

Toba Beta

#6. She is probably by this time as tired of me, as I am of her; but as she is too Polite and I am too civil to say so, our letters are still as frequent and affectionate as ever, and our Attachment as firm and sincere as when it first commenced.

Jane Austen

#7. Neither the army nor the treasury, but friends, are the true supports of the throne; for friends cannot be collected by force of arms, nor purchased with money; they are the offspring of kindness and sincerity.

Sallust

#8. The Way of a Warrior is based on humanity, love, and sincerity; the heart of martial valor is true bravery, wisdom, love, and friendship. Emphasis on the physical aspects of warriorship is futile, for the power of the body is always limited.

Morihei Ueshiba

#9. It is not for minds like ours to give or to receive flatter; yet the praises of sincerity have ever been permitted to the voice of friendship

Lord Byron

#10. 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.

Robert Hall

#11. Most people are willing to promise you a lot. A few are those who can promise you a little, just as much as they can.

Ljupka Cvetanova

#12. How can sincerity be a condition of friendship? A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing.

Albert Camus

#13. How could sincerity be a condition of friendship? A liking for the truth at all costs is a passion that spares nothing and that nothing can withstand.

Albert Camus

#14. We dropped our hands, both embarrassed by the sincerity of the moment. But I was learning, Sometimes you had to put it all out there, no matter how hard it felt to do so. When the people in your life were worth it, so was the risk.

Gwenda Bond

#15. Sincerity may not help us make friends, but it will help us keep them.

John Wooden

#16. What we had actually demonstrated was our cowardice, but there is fellowship in that too.

Clifford Geertz

#17. I'm not going to pretend I'm something I'm not so that you like me more.

Dan Pearce

#18. The boldest stroke and best act of friendship is not to disclose our own failings to a friend, but to show him his own.

Francois De La Rochefoucauld

#19. The reason we do not let our friends see the very bottom of our hearts is not so much distrust of them as distrust of ourselves.

Francois De La Rochefoucauld

#20. We should never stand upon ceremony with sincerity. We should never cheat and insult and banish one another by our meanness, if there were present the kernel of worth and friendliness. We should not meet thus in haste.

Henry David Thoreau