Eugene O'Neill Quotes

You seem to be going in for sincerity today. It isn't becoming to you, really — except as an obvious pose. Be as artificial as you are, I advise. There's a sort of sincerity in that, you know. And, after all, you must confess you like that better.

Eugene O'Neill

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• My wife said to me... you never understood what we were going through back home, did you? And I didn't. And I have to confess that.

  

  Oliver North
  • Home
  • Wife
  • Understood

• My pessimism goes to the point of suspecting the sincerity of the pessimists.

  

  Edmond Rostand
  • Point
  • Sincerity
  • Pessimism

• A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Thing
  • Dangerous
  • Sincerity

• If knowledge and foresight are too penetrating and deep, unify them with ease and sincerity.

  

  Xun Kuang
  • Knowledge
  • Deep
  • Sincerity

• I am ashamed of confessing that I have nothing to confess.

  

  Fanny Burney
  • Ashamed
  • Confess

• Very often, I confess, the teller of dreams bores me. His dream could perhaps interest me if it were frankly worked on. But to hear a glorious tale of his insanity! I have not yet clarified, psychoanalytically, this boredom during the recital of other people's dreams. Perhaps I have retained the stiffness of a rationalist. I do not follow the tale of justified incoherence docilely. I always suspect that part of the stupidities being recounted are invented.

  

  Gaston Bachelard
  • People
  • Dream
  • Dreams

• If the Spirit of God detects anything in you that is wrong, He doesn't ask you to make it right; He only asks you to accept the light of truth, and then He will make it right. A child of the light will confess sin instantly and stand completely open before God. But a child of the darkness will say, “Oh, I can explain that.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • God
  • Truth
  • Light

• Sincerity is like traveling on a plain, beaten road, which commonly brings a man sooner to his journey's end than by-ways, in which men often lose themselves.

  

  John Tillotson
  • Men
  • Journey
  • Ends

• To me the worst thing seems to be a school principally to work with methods of fear, force and artificial authority. Such treatment destroys the sound sentiments, the sincerity and the self-confidence of pupils and produces a subservient subject.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • School
  • Sincerity
  • Destroys

• Sincerity has to do with the connexion between our words and thoughts, and not between our beliefs and actions.

  

  William Hazlitt
  • Action
  • Belief
  • Sincerity

• We must remain as close to the flowers, the grass, and the butterflies as the child is who is not yet so much taller than they are. We adults, on the other hand, have outgrown them and have to lower ourselves to stoop down to them. It seems to me that the grass hates us when we confess our love for it. Whoever would partake of all good things must understand how to be small at times.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Remain
  • Confess
  • Butterflies

• Sincerity is the end and beginning of things; without sincerity there would be nothing.

  

  Confucius
  • Beginning
  • Nothing
  • Sincerity

• I had so often sung 'Deutschland u:ber Alles' and shouted 'Heil' at the top of my lungs, that it seemed to me almost a belated act of grace to be allowed to stand as a witness in the divine court of the eternal judge and proclaim the sincerity of this conviction.

  

  Adolf Hitler
  • Judge
  • Conviction
  • Sincerity

• Men are so completely fools by necessity that he is but a fool in a higher strain of folly who does not confess his foolishness.

  

  Blaise Pascal
  • Fools
  • Confess
  • Strain

• Florence Farr once said to me, If we could say to ourselves, with sincerity, 'this passing moment is as good as any I shall ever know,' we could die upon the instant and be united with God.

  

  William Butler Yeats
  • Moments
  • Sincerity
  • Passing

• I can only say with deeper sincerity and fuller significance what I have always said in theory - Wait God's will.

  

  Charlotte Bronte
  • Theory
  • Sincerity
  • Significance

• I advise that pregnant women do not come to my concerts.

  

  Ozzy Osbourne Black Sabbath
  • Pregnant
  • Concerts
  • Advise

• I do ride a bicycle occasionally, but not those stupid stationary ones you see in gyms. I do have one of those, I must confess, but its quite literally a pain in the arse, so I dont use it.

  

  Christine McVie Fleetwood Mac
  • Pain
  • Stupid
  • Confess

• Eventually I came across another passage. This is what it said: I am not commanding you, but I want to treat the sincerity of your love by comparing it to the earnestness of others. The words made me choke up again, and just as I was about to cry, the meaning of it suddenly became clear. God had finally answered me, and I suddenly knew what I had to do.

  

  Nicholas Sparks
  • Remember
  • Cry
  • Compare

• While we all need external structure in our lives—some degree of predictability, routine, organization—those with ADD need it much more than most people. They need external structure so much because they so lack internal structure.

  

  Edward Hallowell
  • Structure
  • Predictability

• Obama is for the 300 million souls of the United States what Andreas Lubitz was for the 150 souls of the Germanwings flight.

  

  Michele Bachmann
  • Millions
  • United
  • Andrea

• Wonderful invention, the phonograph. Keeps a man alive long after he's dead.

  

  P.J. Wolfson
  • Long

• You seem to be going in for sincerity today. It isn't becoming to you, really — except as an obvious pose. Be as artificial as you are, I advise. There's a sort of sincerity in that, you know. And, after all, you must confess you like that better.

  

  Eugene O'Neill
  • Sincerity
  • Confess
  • Advise