Quotes About Candor

That's always fun to play: the person who can be truthful and blunt, and people take it because that's who she is.

The truest friends are usually the ones telling you what you don't want to hear.

Real friends tell you the truth...even when you want them to shut up.

I probably not as likely to say what's on my mind, and I think most people aren't. It's not something I would want to always be doing. So that's why I'm not a politician.

For too long, Democrats have been telling people what they want to hear. I'm going to tell you what I believe.

One of the most difficult tests for the creator: he must always remain unconscious, unaware of his best virtues, if he doesn't want to rob them of their candor and innocence.

I think people hide behind anonymity and they feel like they can say whatever they want behind closed doors.

-"You won't like me if I'm cruel." -"I don't like you now." -"We don't lie." -"I'm mortal, Irial. I can lie all I want to.

I've always tried to be the person who says things no one else wants to say. I've always kept it in house, as opposed to going to the papers.

All really frank people are amusing, and would remain so if they could remember that other people may sometimes want to be frank and amusing too.

I want you to be honest with me. Even if it hurts. Although I would prefer for it not to hurt.

This willingness to be frank and plain about the way that the world is, is a good first step. But that doesn't mean that you get what you want.

I like people who don't tell you what you want to hear.

We're here because it's honest. I feel like being honest tonight.

Better to be honest and direct, even if it does piss off a few people. Jaffe, Stuart. Southern Bound - A Paranormal-Mystery (Max Porter Mysteries Book 1) (p. 48). Stuart Jaffe. Kindle Edition.

People say keeping it real is a hard thing to do. Keeping it real is easy. Being fake and being soft is hard to do.

Australian women tend to tell it like it is - even if it's the brutal, honest truth. I think American women usually break it to you a little easier. There's a softer side to them.

Of course, there are some things you keep personal and private because you're a human being. But on the other side of it, I ain't got time to be hiding nothing and all that. It is what it is.

There are some things people avoid saying in interviews because they sound pompous or sentimental or too mystical.

I try to really say what I think is happening, and I'm pretty forthright. I obviously hold back some things. But pretty much, what I see and feel, I say on the air.

Everyone needs a place to be honest.

There was altogether too much candor in married life; it was an indelicate modern idea, and frequently led to upsets in a household, if not divorce...

No. It's actually not okay. And I hate when people say that, when they say it's okay even though it's not. It's better to tell the truth.

Everything can be forgiven in this world, save telling the truth.