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Quotes About Candor

I don't think there's anything wrong with telling the truth. I know it isn't fashionable.
~ Craig Ferguson
My plainness of speech makes people hate me, and what is their hatred but a proof that I am speaking the truth.
~ Plato
You wanna get the truth out of me, get me hammered.
~ Ron White
There's nothing wrong with stretching the truth. We stretch taffy, and that just makes it more delicious.
~ Stephen Colbert
Always speak the truth.
~ George Washington
When I have one foot in the grave, I will tell the whole truth about women. I shall tell it, jump into my coffin, pull the lid over me and say, "Do what you like now."
~ Leo Tolstoy
Friends are honest with each other. Even if the truth hurts. -Maggie
~ Sarah Dessen
To tell the truth is very difficult, and young people are rarely capable of it.
~ Leo Tolstoy
Something unpleasant is coming when men are anxious to tell the truth.
~ Benjamin Disraeli
In every generation there has to be some fool who will speak the truth as he sees it.
~ Boris Pasternak
If your friends won't tell you the truth, who will?
~ Julia Roberts
The rarest quality in an epitaph is truth.
~ Henry David Thoreau
You didn't elect me to tell you what you wanted to hear. You elected me to tell you the truth.
~ Barack Obama
I came here to tell you the truth, the good, the bad and the ugly.
~ Oliver North
The truth - you've got to deal with it or it will kill you bit by bit.
~ Ziggy Marley
I feel that one of the greatest gifts you can give someone is the truth, but sometimes my words will get stuck on the way out.
~ Jennifer Widerstrom
Upon my word, I think the truth is the hardest missile one can be pelted with.
~ George Eliot, Middlemarch
Tell the truth once and for all and shut up forever.
~ William S. Burroughs
I believe in saying the truth, coming out with it cold, shocking if necessary, not disguising it.
~ Henry Miller
Oh well, the truth hurts, doesn't it?
~ Robin Roberts
I'll tell you the truth and its up to you to live with it.
~ William Goldman
I believe the American people are looking for someone to speak the truth.
~ Ted Cruz
The truth's not pretty of course. No one likes to look it in the face.
~ Cornelia Funke
Honest is how I want to look. The truth doesn't glitter and shine.
~ Chuck Palahniuk, Survivor