Quotes About Frankness

I don't go out of my way to be a smack talker, you can ask me about anyone and I'll give you my honest opinion.

I don't like to sugarcoat. I don't like to say things without feeling it. I like to get to the point and say exactly what I'm talking about.

I don't think you'll find one person that says I shoot from the hip. What they say is, 'This guy talks eyeball to eyeball. This guy talks shoulder to shoulder. If you ask this guy a question, you'll get an answer.'

Remember what Anatole France said about the dog masturbating on your leg--'Sure, it's honest, but who needs it?

None of my assets are hidden," said Darren.

You look like utter hell," Circe told me. "I wish you'd stop sugar-coating things, Water Witch.

You seem hastily made, remarked the Scarecrow, watching Jack's efforts to straighten himself. Not more so than your Majesty, was the frank reply. There is this difference between us, said the Scarecrow, that whereas I will bend, but not break, you will break, but not bend.

The truth is usually inappropriate.

We appreciate frankness from those who like us. Frankness from others is called insolence.

It's weird when people start sentences with 'frankly' - as if their other sentences don't count.

I don't pretend; I'm honest. Sometimes that causes a problem; I always say what I think.

I can't pretend to do something I don't like.

I'm pretty much an open book.

She spoke out, with plainness and directness. When you had to deal a mortal blow, why try to lighten it?

Sometimes one has to say difficult things, but one ought to say them as simply as one knows how.

My great panacea for making society at once better and more enjoyable would be to cultivate greater sincerity.

All kinds of frankness and honesty are terrible crimes in the eyes of society.

Sometimes my mouth is a little too big and a little too open and sounds too much like a sailor.

What we lack in subtlety, we make up for with a lack of subtlety.

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 fervour.

why were the State Department and President Roosevelt so hesitant to express in frank terms how they really felt about Hitler at a time when such expressions clearly could have had a powerful effect on his prestige in the world?

Desconfío de todas las personas francas y sencillas, especialmente cuando sus historias parecen tener lógica

Ours is a culture that reveres the ethos of absolute frankness and elevates truth-telling to moral perfection. Other cultures believe that when everything is out in the open and ambiguity is done away with, it may not increase intimacy, but compromise it.

My dad raised me with some good advice: 'Always tell the truth. Always shoot from the hip. You might not have many friends, but you'll never have enemies, because people will always know where you're coming from.'