Quotes About Directness

I'm very candid.

I don't for one second spend any time thinking about carefully ingratiating myself with someone for the future.

I think what I have is straightforwardness, unabashedness rather than charm.

I am one of those people that if you are going to say something, just say it. I take it on the chin.

I like people who tell you what they think straight away instead of going around in circles.

I'm probably the most honest person you'll ever meet - to a fault, like, I-will-hurt-your-feelings honest. I'm sure if I lied about anything, it would have been silly, but I haven't retained that information.

I don't fire up the prose. I just tell it straight and don't fool around with it.

But what helps? What do we need to know? Not everything. Everything confuses. Directness also confuses. The full-face portrait staring back at you hypnotises. Flaubert is usually looking away in his portraits and photographs. He's looking away so that you can't catch his eye; he's also looking away because what he can see over your shoulder is more interesting than your shoulder.

I love a straightforward character. I am the guy who loves Cyclops on the 'X-Men', because he is square.

I do not play games, but always just say what's on my mind. Ostentatious modesty - for fools. If a man afraid of your honesty, it means that he is not the one you need.

I never say anything of a man that I have the smallest scruple of saying to him.

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.

A man of rare common sense and directness of speech, as of action; a transcendentalist above all, a man of ideas and principles,Mthat was what distinguished him.

Be black or white with no shades of gray. In other words, don't be a nagging mother.

Human subtlety will never devise an invention more beautiful, more simple or more direct than does nature because in her inventions nothing is lacking, and nothing is superfluous.

Nature is no spendthrift, but takes the shortest way to her ends.

Nature operates in the shortest way possible.

That's always been my philosophy: I try to just be as straightforward as possible, and then I don't really have to question what I said or regret anything.

If you like or dislike something about them, Say it to their face.

Speak in extremes, it'll save you time.

For it is characteristic of true simplicity that there may radiate from its utmost directness a good many glinting things.

People who are brutally honest get more satisfaction out of the brutality than out of the honesty.

Honesty needs no disguise nor ornament; be plain.

An honest tale speeds best being plainly told.