Quotes About Candor

He said, 'are you telling the truth?' I said, 'Yes. I always tell the truth.

It's bloody hard telling the truth all the time.

So I didn't have time to craft artful lies and evasions even if I'd wanted to.

But I'm simply not going to deceive anybody about the life as I've seen it. It's all here: the good, the bad and the ugly.

As pessoas do mundo da restauração podem gostar ou não gostar do que vou contar, mas saberão muito bem que não estarei a mentir.

If you never tell a lie, then you never have to play dumb

CHAPTER LV 'I HAVE TOLD HIM EVERYTHING

Just tell us the truth

Be frank with me and we may do some good. Play tricks with me, and I'll crush you.

Qué le voy a decir? Seré franca y sincera, pero sin contarle la verdad.

The children I teach are uneasy with intimacy or candor. They cannot deal with genuine intimacy because of a lifelong habit of preserving a secret inner self inside a larger outer personality made up of artificial bits and pieces of behavior borrowed from television or acquired to manipulate teachers. Because they are not who they represent themselves to be, the disguise wears thin in the presence of intimacy; so intimate relationships have to be avoided.

Trying to be so bad is bad enough Don't make me laugh by talking tough Don't put your heart out on your sleeve When your remarks are off the cuff

We forgive only madmen and children for being frank with us: others, if they have the audacity to imitate them, will regret it sooner or later.

Pero creo que si todas las mujeres hablasen lo que piensan, como hice yo por culpa del champagne, más de cuatro y más de ocho se verían peor que esta individua".

So, with the enthusiasm of one who attains an object long desired, with the candor of a child, and the blundering foolishness of an old man utterly without worldly experience, he fell into the life of Mademoiselle Gamard precisely as a fly is caught in a spider's web.

There was a candor about him I noticed in people whose parents had given them something unconditional and absolute growing up.

If you don't say what you're thinking, you end up lying when you really need to speak up

Being reasonably direct about what you're doing, being comfortable, is the best way to do things.

I don't think of myself as a rebel; I just say what I think.

When former Defense Secretary Robert Gates wrote his recent book, 'Duty', it was full of tough assessments and candor.

If I think a guy should handle things differently, I'm going to say it.

I just feel like sometimes people don't want to hear the truth. It's hard when you hear the truth. People want to hear what they want to hear. Sometimes I have a hard time with that because I'm very honest.

Behind the scenes, I'm not a politicker. I have a very hard time telling somebody they're right when I feel they're wrong, and I have a very hard time telling somebody they're good when I feel they're not. That's just me.

I was never a ringleader, but I was willing, when asked questions, to give my opinion. And when you say things quite bluntly, it's very easy for people to hang their hats on that.