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Quotes About Frankness

When I see a spade, I call it a spade. I'm glad to say I have never seen a spade. The man who would call a spade a spade should be compelled to use it. It's the only thing he's fit for.
~ Oscar Wilde
It's two o'clock in the morning, they're not going to get any nooky anyway, so this one guy and the guy with the t-shirt guy started sniffing the girls panties.
~ Frank Zappa
Kids are truthful by nature.
~ Anna Chlumsky
If you like or dislike something about them, Say it to their face.
~ Yasinthan
All cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness.
~ Tennessee Williams
Honesty is all you need.
~ Cass Elliot
You must study to be frank with the world: frankness is the child of honesty and courage. Say just what you mean to do on every occasion, and take it for granted that you mean to do right.
~ Robert E. Lee
There is something so pure and frank and noble about him that to doubt his sincerity would be like doubting the brightness of the sun.
~ Charles Jefferson
When one is frank, one's very presence is a compliment.
~ Marianne Moore
I have built my reputation on honesty, I have sometimes been too honest.
~ David Blunkett
It's simply impossible for me to filter my thoughts and feelings. I tell it from my point of view. I'm an open book.
~ Lori Lesko
I'm frank brutally frank. And even when I'm not frank I look frank.
~ Lord Thomson
You must study to be frank with the world: Frankness is the child of honesty and courage.
~ Robert E. Lee
Be candid with everyone.
~ Jack Welch
The expression of vanity and self-love becomes less offensive, when it retains something of simplicity and frankness.
~ Alexander von Humboldt
I'm going to be frank, Max..." "Of course. All cards on the table." But he gave me a poker smile.
~ Alfred Alcorn
I can't stand people who look into the camera and look into the eyes of millions of people and wax political correctness.
~ Stephen A. Smith
Im not rude, I'm just plain honest.
~ Anu Malik
What I will say will not always please you, but what I say will always be honest and true and how I genuinely see it.
~ Johann Lamont
There's no point in saying anything but the truth.
~ Amy Winehouse
Even the frankest and bravest of subordinates do not talk with their boss the same way they talk with colleagues.
~ Robert K. Greenleaf
A crook is a crook, and there's something healthy about his frankness in the matter. But any guy who pretends he is enforcing the law and steals on his authority is a swell snake. The worst type of these punks is the big politician.
~ Al Capone
Frankness is not a license to say anything you want, wherever and whenever you want. It is not rudeness.
~ Rick Warren
She met the pleasurable things of life with frank, open appreciation, and against distasteful conditions she rebelled. Dissimulation was as foreign to her nature as guile to the breast of a babe, and her rebellious outbreaks, by no means rare, had hitherto been quite open and aboveboard.
~ Kate Chopin