Quotes About Candor

There is no poet, black or otherwise, writing with as much wicked candor and passion." Terrance Hayes on Wanda Coleman

I've never liked euphemisms. I don't say "passed away." I say "dead.

Someone needs to tell the truth, but it shouldn't be my job.

In my neighborhood, when you've got something to say to a guy, you look him in the eye and you say it to him.

A lot of people don't want to get bad news.

You know, I don't really think you have to play nice guys.

If you have a difficult message to deliver in any circumstance, it's always best to do it first up-front, and probably be a bit harder than you have to be because it's always easier to be nicer afterwards.

Troy Deeney is a good guy, he's one of the nicest guys I've played with. He says it how it is. He's not a guy that beats around the bush. If he's not happy, he says what he feels.

I have no problem with answering questions honestly or even looking outside the box and answering private questions.

The ceremony was elegant and yet surprisingly intimate. The pastor read from Second Corinthians, and then Megan and Daniel recited vows they'd written together. They promised patience when it was easy to be impatient, candor when it was easier to lie, and in their own ways, each recognized the fact that real commitment could be proven only through the passage of time.

All my tips and tricks and woes and worries are gong to come tumbling out before you. I'm going to divulge them. What a juicy work that is, 'divulge.' Truth opening its petals. Truth smells like Chinese food and sweat.

The truth will set you free. Either that or it'll get you a punch in the nose.

People who say not to speak ill of the dead just don't have the spine to say what they think." "You've

Because for the moment, when the words are said and the words are hard, it's perfect truth.

Honest is how I want to look. The truth doesn't glitter and shine.

The most boring thing in the entire world is nudity. The second most boring thing is honesty.

did you really mean it?

I'm only telling you on the truth, he said. If you can't stand the truth, don't ask for it.

Because it is a thousand pities never to say what one feels

it is a thousand pities never to say what one feels

Because it is a thousand pities never to say what one feels, he thought...

Because it is a thousand pities to never say what one feels

I must confess something to you." "Confess." "I must confess to you that I've read they go and do it in the bushes and on islands and, would you believe, inside of trucks.

Honesty wins the day" is one of my favorite made-up mantras, and I needed it then.