Quotes About Candor

I'm always hairy. I swear too much.

I do walk with a bit of a swagger. I do swear a lot. And people are going to be offended by that. But in this PC world, you can't be honest.

Am I a little rough around the edges? Do I say things that people don't like sometimes? Do I swear a lot? Yes, yes, yes. Life's hard, man.

I like a girl who doesn't play any games. I like a very sweet girl.

He lived on frankness and economy.

Honesty is a good thing, but it comes in different flavors. Honesty about our feelings is sincerity. Honesty about our intentions is candor. But suppose our feelings or intentions are childish or evil. What then do we gain by expressing or allowing them? The most important form of honesty, especially in a leader, is determining the right course of action and forthrightly pursuing it.

The kind of stuff you tended not to talk about because it wasn't usually a good idea to reveal so much disrepair to other people.

She was flushed and felt intoxicated with the sound of her own voice and the unaccustomed taste of candor. It muddled her like wine, or like a first breath of freedom.

Then the candor of the woman's whole existence, which every one might read, and which formed so striking a contrast to her own habitual reserve—this might have furnished a link. Who can tell what metals the gods use in forging the subtle bond which we call sympathy, which we might as well call love.

Josie just says what she thinks. Doesn't care if she says the wrong thing. That gets irritating sometimes but I love her for it.

made no bones

We like a man to come right out and say what he thinks- if we agree with him.

Editors and their authors seldom form deep friendships for the same reason that psychiatrists and their patients keep their distance: The relationship requires candor that mixes poorly with intimacy.

We will presently find that we are not so far apart after all, that the points on which we differ are few and the points on which we agree are many, and that if we only have the patience and the candor and the desire to get together, we will get together.

I'm going to tell it like it is. I hope you can take it like it is.

there was no shame in admitting you didn't have the answer, it was a necessary step toward the truth.

Honesty needs no approval.

Ah, that touch of asperity! You are the only one of my acquaintance who is unafraid to spice your conversation with that particular pepper.

Honesty: what a refreshing slap in the face it is.

Always tell what you feel. Do what you think...

I never did give them hell. I just told the truth, and they thought it was hell.

Intelligence makes sincerity difficult.

That's what I love about the short story. You are naked on the page. There is nowhere to hide.

Don't let politeness interfere with truth