Quotes About Frankness

Ich würde von jedermann, ob hoch oder niedrig, verlangen, dass er mir einfach und geradezu mit dem kommt, was er mir erzählen will, oder aber seine Geschichte zusammenrollt und sich darauf setzt und Ruhe gibt. Übertretungen dieses Gesetzes müssten mit dem Tode bestraft werden.

On Theodore Roosevelt] I always enjoy his society, he is so hearty, so straightforward, outspoken and, for the moment, so absolutely sincere.

Writers of all kinds are manacled servants of the public. We write frankly and fearlessly, but then we 'modify' before we print.

Your such a cynic. Exactly, thats what you call a guy who tells you the truth.

I lived in that contented state a long while before I was finally able to look back and admit how desolate my life had once been. I'm sure I could never have told my story otherwise; I don't think any of us can speak frankly about pain until we are no longer enduring it.

think any of us can speak frankly about pain until we are no longer enduring it.

She wondered why her normal desire to say little, to hold things closed, broke down before him, why she felt compelled to simple frankness, such as she could offer no one else.

The expression of vanity and self-love becomes less offensive, when it retains something of simplicity and frankness.

I'm not hip, I'm not cool, I'm not glib.

Life is too short to be little. Man is never so manly as when he feels deeply, acts boldly, and expresses himself with frankness and with fervor.

America's very refreshing when you go over there; they're all just open about what they want, and they want you to be open, too.

I shoot straight from the hip and do not play games.

In Canada, things are very honest.

My problem is being brutally honest. People don't like that.

If someone asks me a question, it is very difficult not to answer honestly.

I'd like to think people know what I stand for, which is straight-talking honesty and telling you not just what you want to hear but where it is at.

Honesty is always hip.

and yet could swear it was just then that I fell in love. It wasn't, of course, simply the onions -- it was the sudden sense of an individual woman, of a frankness that was so often later to make me happy and miserable.

Is it possible to fall in love over a dish of onions? It seems improbable, and yet I could swear it was just then that I fell in love. It wasn't, of course, simply the onions; it was that sudden sense of an individual woman, of a frankness that was so often later to make me happy and miserable.

Your candor is worth everything to your cause. It is refreshing to find a person with a new theory who frankly confesses that he finds difficulties, insurmountable, at least for the present.

I will speak with a straight tongue.

I speak my mind, so I don't hold my tongue for nobody.

I am really bad at holding my tongue, because it comes naturally for me to say what's on my mind.

I don't hold my tongue for nobody.