Quotes About Directness

I have no affectation when I speak.

I like clean answers.

There is no bombast, no similes, flowers, digressions, or unnecessary descriptions. Everything tends directly to the catastrophe.

Early on, I'd got a sample of how Cornelia Tell questioned all motives for politeness. I'd sat down and said, "Would it be too much trouble if I got a scone with my coffee?" Cornelia Tell shot back, "Even if it does cause me trouble, do you still want a scone?" I never put it that way again, believe me. I just said, "I'd like a scone.

Straightforwardness, without the rules of propriety, becomes rudeness.

We are raw and honest, or we are nothing.

With my people, what you see is what you get. We prefer blunt talk to diplomacy." My family was much the same way. Phaelan's idea of diplomacy involved firing cannon shot across your bow rather than through your waterline.

I think that the only real way to tell if a boy like likes you is to be direct. None of this game-playing, that's juvenile. Instead, even though it might be scary, the thing to do is to just march up and ask one of your friends to ask someone else to ask one of his friends what he thinks about you.

I believe half the unhappiness in life comes from people being afraid to go straight at things.

A man that should call everything by its right name would hardly pass the streets without being knocked down as a common enemy.

A straightforward answer to a straightforward question will move you that much more forward in this world, that much faster.

A straightforward answer to a straightforward question will move you that much more forward in this world, that much faster. And get things fixed, that much quicker.

I simply described him in accurate terms. If he finds himself insulted by the truth, it's hardly my concern." A

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I'm done with being nice about sh.. that I shouldn't be nice about..

There's a difference between being mean & being blunt n straight forward.

I'm not being mean, I'm telling the truth!

People always Confuse between being mean and just being honest and straight forward.

Say what you mean, mean what you say...Or don't say any thing at all.

Just say what you mean and mean what you say. don't expect someone to read your mind and don't play games with heads or hearts.

Why, Madam, do you know there are upward of thirty yards of bowels squeezed underneath that girdle of your daughter's? Go home and cut it; let Nature have fair play, and you will have no need of my advice.

He who speaks the truth often has no ruth.

Simple and to the point is always the best way to get your point across.

In saying what is obvious, never choose cunning. Yelling works better.