Quotes About Frankness

There is hardly any frankness in hidden love. True Love should be able to express itself and not allow itself to be hidden.

In a society that valued politeness over truth, where malice and subterfuge were commonplace, even accepted, Lily's frankness was labeled an eccentricity of her "condition.

That was the problem with the whole goddamn world; nobody had balls enough to call a spade a spade. Dead was dead; it was a hell of a lot more permanent than a milquetoast "not being here.

thought, for all her lightness, she was studying me. Not subtly. She was never a subtle woman; but with the semi-direct frankness with which children survey strange people.

Sincerity: willingness to spend one's own money.

I call a fig a fig, a spade a spade.

What youve got to do is be honest. Say what you believe. Give it to them straight. Just dont wuss out.

Though the Finns' taciturnity may work among themselves, problems arise when they travel or have to work with foreigners. The men, in particular, can be simply too frank, too direct, sometimes to the point of rudeness. They find it especially challenging to engage in the social lubricant of small talk, something even Norwegians can manage if they put their minds to it.

I must speak the truth, and nothing but the truth.

I was so free with him as not to mince the matter.

To speak the truth is easy and pleasant.

When I was a schoolboy,' he said, more calmly, 'we had a prayer about being careful not to mistake bluntness for frankness, and obstinacy, I think it was, for constancy. You know, Percy, I have always respected your principles, but you must face the fact that we all have to make compromises in this life if we are to live amicably together. All I am doing is to show you how willing we are to settle things for the best. Even hares and hounds have to shake down in the same world.

Dear brother," Number Two replied, "I can eat shit, I just don't like the taste.

I am, I fear, Inclined to be unfashionably sincere.   ORONTE

I am, I fear, inclined to be unfashionably sincere.

PHILINTE: Il est bien des endroits, où la pleine franchise Deviendrait ridicule, et serait peu permise; Et, parfois, n'en déplaise à votre austère honneur, Il est bon de cacher ce qu'on a dans le cÅ"ur. Serait-il à propos, et de la bienséance, De dire à mille gens tout ce que d'eux, on pense? Et quand on a quelqu'un qu'on hait, ou qui déplaît, Lui doit-on déclarer la chose comme elle est? ALCESTE: Ouy..

I have the defect of being more sincere than persons wish.

My only illness is that sometimes I'm too honest with people.

NO CREO EN LA VÍA PACÍFICA no creo en la vía violenta me gustaría creer en algo —pero no creo creer es creer en Dios lo único que yo hago es encogerme de hombros perdónenme la franqueza no creo ni en la Vía Láctea

Michel Foucault believed that speech was truly free only when the weak took a risk and used it against the strong: 'In parrhesia, the speaker uses his freedom and chooses frankness instead of persuasion, truth instead of falsehood or silence, the risk of death instead of life and security, criticism instead of flattery, and moral duty instead of self-interest and moral apathy.

parrhesia, the speaker uses his freedom and chooses frankness instead of persuasion, truth instead of falsehood or silence, the risk of death instead of life and security, criticism instead of flattery, and moral duty instead of self-interest and moral apathy.

Honesty and frankness did not mean the captured bandits were fine folk, or kind, only that they might not murder another in their sleep.

Heidi Well, do you want me to be honest or do you want me to tell you this is the first time

I came here to tell you the truth, the good, the bad and the ugly.