Quotes About Candor

Candor is a compliment; it implies equality. It's how true friends talk." —Peggy Noonan

I'm not a tough guy. I'm just delivering the truth and only the truth and if you can't deal with it, too bad.

One man's frankness is another man's vulgarity.

Remember Hattie, tell the good and the bad.

Many would argue there are certain otherwise-private stories I might've been wiser to keep closer to the vest. That vest that knows no proximity.

Sometimes the truth feels good.

All we can do is go around telling the truth.

That is what philosophers are good for: stating the obvious that no one else is emotionally willing to admit.

Honesty is the best policy that almost no one uses.

Tarly, when I was a lad half your age, my lady mother told me that if I stood about with my mouth open, a weasel was like to mistake it for his lair and run down my throat. If you have something to say, say it. Otherwise, beware of weasels.

all I have done is speak the truth. Are men so fragile they cannot bear to hear it?

All I've done is speak the truth. Are men so fragile they cannot bear to hear it?

Say what you mean and mean what you say.

The more pleasure a universe can yield, other things being equal, the more beneficent and generous is its general nature; the more pains its constitution involves, the darker and more malign its total temper. To deny this would seem impossible, yet it is done daily; for there is nothing people will not maintain when they are slaves to superstition; and candor and a sense of justice are, in such a case, the first things lost.

As with the douchebags of the world, calling an asshole an asshole sometimes is exactly what needs to happen.

When writing of oneself one should show no mercy.

He who says what he likes shall hear what he does not like.

Ask me no questions, and I'll tell you no fibs.

If you wish to preserve your secret, wrap it up in frankness.

Every man who says frankly and fully what he thinks is doing a public service.

I am being frank about myself in this book. I tell of my first mistake on page 850.

He had a weakness, though. All of us do, and those of us who think they do not are not being honest.

Um…John, what the fuck is doing with you?" What do you mean, he signed to Qhuinn without taking his eyes off the woman. "You're looking at that chick like you want to roll her up in a taco and put your hot sauce all over her." Blay coughed a little. "You really don't have a way with words, you know that?" "Just calling it like I see it." -Qhuinn, John, & Blay

It's hard to explain and best thing to do is not be false.