Quotes About Frankness

I don't have any secrets; I don't believe in secrets.

My dream of politics all my life has been that it is the common business, that it is something we owe to each other to understand and discuss with absolute frankness.

Really, I do not know whether my paintings are surrealist or not, but I do know that they are the frankest expression of myself.

I'm sort of a straight shooter.

I am a straight shooter.

I have a tough time beating around the bush and just saying something you want to hear. I kind of say it how it is, even if I don't realize that's maybe not what I should say at the moment.

I'm being honest, I say what I think.

I don't watch any sports; I'm just being honest.

It is always better to clear the air, even if the air often stinks.

What Americans value and strive for is straight talking, plain saying. They don't go in for ambiguity or dissembling, the etiquette of hidden meaning, the skill of the socially polite lie.

All faults may be forgiven of him who has perfect candor.

I am the last person on Earth who can be diplomatic. I say what I actually feel.

My dad raised me with some good advice: 'Always tell the truth. Always shoot from the hip. You might not have many friends, but you'll never have enemies, because people will always know where you're coming from.'

Sorprende y admira, por ejemplo, la franqueza con que Bell aborda el episodio de los abusos que Virginia sufrió de niña por parte de su hermanastro George Duckworth, un trauma que podría explicar tanto su sexualidad difícil como los constantes desequilibrios psíquicos que finalmente la conducirían al suicidio.

To be outspoken is easy when you do not wait to speak the complete truth.

you had said those things to him, you understand, you would have heard some truths in return. If you had been frank you would have elicited frankness.

the disgust that exists indelibly between men and women and that you are always trying to purge with what you call frankness. As soon as you cease to be frank, you see a stain, you are forced to acknowledge imperfection, and you want only to run away and hide in shame.

To be outspoken is easy when you do not wait to speak the complete truth.

We can all go up to each other and be honest with each other. That's the biggest thing, when you can go out and speak to your brother.

Australians are pretty blunt and we say things how they really are.

I am very blunt, and people don't like it.

People beat around the bush so much, and I try to be really blunt in my music.

I'm a very blunt person.

I am a blunt person.