Quotes About Candor

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

Women love an honest man. An honest man that isn't afraid to say, 'Men get hurt too.' And a lot of men don't admit that.

I'm someone, the same as my girlfriends, when they say what do you think about this, I don't always say they look fabulous. I say what I think.

Kids are the most genuine thing to me: everything they say and do, they mean it.

I'm as thick as a plank.

We need true free thinkers, people who really say what they feel and have good, genuine intentions.

It is always brave to say what everyone thinks.

I'm someone who says what he thinks.

It's become my brand in a way, you know, speaking the truth even though it was not politically correct.

the point. She doesn't blow smoke.

I wish you'd tell the truth, but since I know that isn't preferable--" "The truth is always preferable, my dear. It's just not always wise.

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.

If you're honest and straightforward and mean well, it should show in your eyes. It should be unmistakable.

How rotten and spurious is the man who says: "I have decided to be straightforward with you.

a candor affected is a dagger concealed

A straightforward, honest person should be like someone who stinks: when you're in the same room with him, you know it. But false straightforwardness is like a knife in the back.

I pride myself on being a jerk, because I'm brutally honest all the time.

Everybody knows pretty much everything about me. I emptied all the skeletons out of my closet a long time ago.

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

It's easier to whisper your feelings than to trumpet them forth out loud

You are all made of real poop.

In that moment there was no pretense between them, no lingering vestige of reserve or attempt to escape, no denial. It was final and complete.

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

Truth is a risky proposition. It's the nature of mediocre human beings to believe that lies are necessary, that they serve a purpose, that truth is subversive, that candor is dangerous, that the very scaffold of communal life is supported by lies.