authenticity Quotes

A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction.

The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast.

Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.

Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.

If you pretend to be good, the world takes you very seriously. If you pretend to be bad, it doesn't. Such is the astounding stupidity of optimism.

Ordinary riches can be stolen; real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you.

Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.

One's real life is so often the life that one does not lead.

Let us have no machine-made ornament at all; it is all bad and worthless and ugly.

Seriousness is the only refuge of the shallow.