Quotes About Frankness

the Germans love frankness and honesty. It is so convenient to be frank and honest. This confidingness, this complacence, this showing the cards of German honesty, is probably the most dangerous and most successful disguise which the German is up to nowadays.

My frankness has got me into a lot of trouble. I try to temper it down now. As you get older, you get wiser.

Sometimes I wish I was poetic and subtle. I write very bold and blunt and tell it like it is.

It is always brave to say what everyone thinks.

I'm someone who says what he thinks.

I felt that it's best just to be as transparent as possible.

I'm not the kind of person who come here to say what you like. I'm going to tell you the truth whether you like it or not.

A spirit of candor and frankness, when wholly unaccompanied with coarseness, he admired in others, but he could not acquire it himself.

Ask her her opinion of anything, and instead of judging what is appropriate to say, she will tell you what she really thinks.

No, but one can feel desperate at any age, don't you think? The young are eternally desperate," he said frankly. "And books, they offer hope — that a whole universe might open up from between the covers, and falling into that universe one is saved.

No, but one can feel desperate at any age, don't you think? The young are eternally desperate," he said frankly. "And books, they offer one hope –that a whole universe might open up from between the covers, and falling into that new universe, one is saved.

No, but one can feel desperate at any age, don't you think? The young are eternally desperate," he said frankly. "And books, they offer one hope—that a whole universe might open up from between the covers

We've got to tell the unvarnished truth

Sounding frank, honest, and sincere is, of course, a rhetorical strategy in itself, known from ancient literature as parrhesia. It's often employed by liars.

There is no artifice, no manipulation, no games.

You ain't gonna like what I have to tell you, but I'm gonna tell you anyway.

Always been brutally honest. Some people don't like that because it's rare nowadays.

One thing I've learned to appreciate as I've gotten a little older is direct forms of communication.

The only thing I do is say what everyone else is thinking but doesn't have the guts to say.

Twat is twat and that is that.

To be candid, in Middlemarch phraseology, meant, to use an early opportunity of letting your friends know that you did not take a cheerful view of their capacity, their conduct, or their position; and a robust candor never waited to be asked for its opinion.

In days when the public safety is imminently threatened, and the fate of a nation may hang upon a single act, we owe frank speech, above all other men, to him who is highest in authority. I shall speak to you as man to man.

I'm not good at throwing around rhetoric.

His brows shot up. "You are very frank." She grinned. "It is one of the benefits of choosing spinsterhood.