authenticity Quotes

The public is the only critic whose opinion is worth anything at all.

It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.

All emotion is involuntary when genuine.

Do not tell fish stories where the people know you; but particularly, don't tell them where they know the fish.

If you wish to be a success in the world, promise everything, deliver nothing.

Success has always been a great liar.

The bad gains respect through imitation, the good loses it especially in art.

Mystical explanations are thought to be deep; the truth is that they are not even shallow.

Experience, as a desire for experience, does not come off. We must not study ourselves while having an experience.

One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth.