Quotes About Frankness

I want everyone to tell me the truth, even if it costs him his job.

I'm not wasting my time with any more non-straight-talking candidates.

My instincts are all against a woman being too frank and at her ease with me. It is no compliment to a man.

Qué le voy a decir? Seré franca y sincera, pero sin contarle la verdad.

Aquellos que tienen asegurado el sustento y que no desean favores de los hombres que están en el Poder, ni de ninguna corporación o del público, nada tienen que temer de la franca profesión de todas las opiniones, a no ser que se piense o se hable mal de ellos

Be compassionate to the needy. Neither squander wealth nor hoard it. Never lose your sense of shame. If questions are asked of you, answer them frankly but do not ask too many yourself. Be manly and of good cheer. Never kill a foe who is begging for mercy.

We invest ourselves with an abusive superiority when we tell someone what we think of him and of what he does. Frankness is not compatible with a delicate sentiment, nor even with an ethical exigency.

We forgive only madmen and children for being frank with us: others, if they have the audacity to imitate them, will regret it sooner or later.

I went to bed sorrowful, and I still suffer from the shock produced by this first collision of my frank, joyous nature with the harsh laws of society. Already the highway hedges are flecked with my white wool!

For me, you want to be recognized as someone who is real and shoots people straight.

I speak my heart out. My outspokenness and forthrightness won hearts.

I've never hidden anything in my life.

I've got nothing to hide.

I don't try to hide my feelings or what I think.

Had been grandmothers, tolerant and frank, recipients of certain dark secrets, who, by the quality of their unjudging listening, granted tacit forgiveness, and thus let in the sun.

since he was himself of a forthright disposition he was inclined to like Sophy's frank, open manners, and obstinately refused to agree that she put herself forward unbecomingly. He did not think that she put herself forward at all, which made it difficult to see just how it was that she contrived to introduce quite a new atmosphere into the house.

Mr Warboys, without putting himself to the trouble of deciding which of the more ferocious animals his friend resembled, stated the matter in simple, and courageously frank terms. You know, old fellow, he once told Martin,if you had a tail, damme if you wouldn't lash it!

As it happens in relationships that are open and frank and based on mutual respect, you say things as you think them, and this doesn't mean that you don't work together in a constructive way.

Defender of the liberty that I idolize, myself more free than anyone, in coming as a friend to offer my services to this intriguing republic, I bring to it only my frankness and my good will; no ambition, no self-interest; in working for my glory, I work for their happiness.

I can't sing, I can't dance, I can't do much else to be honest.

I try to be honest.

I'm not what you might call a mystery. I'm pretty much an open book – Jake says I'm an audio book, because everything I'm thinking comes out of my mouth.

You should always say exactly what you think directly to people all the time.

Any time I'm on-screen it is realistic because I don't pull my punches or anything like that.