Quotes About Frankness

Normally I tell the truth whether it's nice or not.

That's what us northern people do don't we? Don't mince our words, just say it how it is.

If you always speak your mind, the evil man will avoid you.

The man who could call a spade a spade should be compelled to use one.

I don't think there's anything wrong with telling the truth. I know it isn't fashionable.

Besides, Rose Bradwardine, beautiful and amiable as we have described her, had not precisely the sort of beauty or merit which captivates a romantic imagination in early youth. She was too frank, too confiding, too kind; amiable qualities, undoubtedly, but destructive of the marvellous, with which a youth of imagination delights to dress the empress of his affections.

It is far easier to govern from a height, as it were, than from the intimacy of close personal contact. But you cannot be quite frank and easy with beings who are obviously of a higher and of another order than yourself; at least, you cannot when you are a little boy...But it is much to a child to know that he may question, may talk of the thing that perplexes him, and that there is comprehension for his perplexities.

Strategic and coy are for jackasses.

If someone breaks your heart just punch them in the face. Seriously. Punch them in the face and go get some ice cream.

I never did give anybody hell. I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.

I never did give them hell. I just told the truth, and they thought it was hell.

I would have liked to have given a frank and balanced account of my own sexuality ... because it is not just a personal matter but a political one too." Beauvoir

Yes, you know enough of my frankness to believe me capable of that. After abusing you so abominably to your face, I could have no scruple in abusing you to all your relations." -Elizabeth Bennet

She prized the frank, the open-hearted, the eager character beyond all others. Warmth and enthusiasm did captivate her still. She felt that she could so much more depend upon the sincerity of those who sometimes looked or said a careless or a hasty thing, than of those whose presence of mind never varied, whose tongue never slipped.

I ask only what I want to be told.

Elinor, cried Marianne, is this fair? is this just? are my ideas so scanty? But I see what you mean. I have been too much at my ease, too happy, too frank. I have erred against every common-place notion of decorum; I have been open and sincere where I ought to have been reserved, spiritless, dull, and deceitful:- had I talked only of the weather and the roads, and had I spoken only once in ten minutes, this reproach would have been spared.

I do not pretend to possess equal frankness with your ladyship. You may ask questions which I shall not choose to answer.

frankness of her character in her reply to the letter which announced its arrangement, she sent him language so very abusive, especially of Elizabeth, that for some time all intercourse

Lady Catherine was extremely indignant on the marriage of her nephew; and as she gave way to all the genuine frankness of her character in her reply to the letter which announced its arrangement, she sent him language so very abusive, especially of Elizabeth, that for some time all intercourse was at an end.

Actually, I never thought of me being president of Brazil. First of all, I'm not a politician. I never have been, and I think I'm a very unlikely person for this kind of job because of my frankness. I've never dealt with political parties. I have no connections with political parties. So, I don't think so.

I don't think any of us can speak frankly about pain until we are no longer enduring it.

I was both loved and hated for being upfront. But I was just being myself.

I have never made any secret of any of my thoughts or areas of interest. I've always been honest, open, and upfront.

I'm not going to just refrain from giving information I hear just because it might upset some people.