Quotes About Candor

People don't like when people are straight forward. They like things to be sugar coated. They like to beat around the bush. I'm not that type of person.

When you start hiding things away, that's when the darkness creeps up. Sunlight is the best disinfectant.

I love insult, it's always honest.

I believe in uttering the truth, even if it hurts. Particularly if it hurts.

Telling the truth is not easy, and false accusations can be made with great ease.

All faults may be forgiven of him who has perfect candor.

The greatest mistake is trying to be more agreeable than you can be.

When all else fails fall back on the truth. No I'm a politician I can't tell the truth Mara Cal Omas

There are times when the truth is the worst possible thing you can come out with.

Honesty is something you can't wear out.

I say what other people only think, and when all the rest of the world is in a conspiracy to accept the mask for the true face, mine is the rash hand that tears off the plump pasteboard, and shows the bare bones beneath.

I, however, am a source of unvarnished truth, even when it hurts. – Oliver Dimbleby

You're drunk, and I'm drunk, and I'm just exactly drunk enough to tell you anything you want to know. That's the kind of girl I am. If I like a person, I'll tell them anything they want to know. Just ask me. Go ahead, ask me.

the sine qua non of a leader has lain not in his chesslike grasp of issues and the options they portend, not in his style of management, not in his skill at processing information, but in his having the character, the heart, to deal spontaneously, honorably, and candidly with people, perplexities, and principles.

Don't be so goddamn proper. Don't be such a fucking saint.

That's silly,' said Martha. 'Friends should always tell each other the truth.

She made no point of concealing the truth, for the truth was all she could bear now.

It seemed the best thing was just to come right out and say it. You know, I said, I'm really not attracted to you. I mean, not that- Isn't that interesting, he said coolly. I'm really not attracted to you, either. But- You were there.

White vividly recalled sitting "pop-eyed with wonder" at the edge of his chair while Roosevelt spoke "with a kind of dynamic, burning candor" about his plans.

Since I doubt, at the moment, whether I can stomach any hysterical verbiage, suppose we simply say what we mean.

I always think that the franker you are with people, the more you're likely to deceive 'em; so unused is the modern world to the open hand and the guileless heart

Perhaps you didn't say much about him, mother, but Gerald said lots - dreadful things!' 'Yes,' said the Duchess, 'he said what he thought. The present generation does, you know. To the uninitiated, I admit, dear, it does sound a little rude.

though I always think that the franker you are with people, the more you're likely to deceive 'em; so unused is the modern world to the open hand and the guileless heart, what?

He was refreshingly, even alarmingly, direct