Quotes About Candor

I think humans are only capable of small moments of honesty. Then they get tired and back away. It's something to foster, this ability to keep it for longer. How to keep being honest and aware.

Very few people want to hear the truth. Bogie was like that, my mother was like that, and I'm like that. I believe in the truth, and I believe in saying what you think. Why not? Do you have to go around whispering all the time or playing a game with people? I just don't believe in that. So I'm not the most adored person on the face of the earth.

ATHEIST is really a thoroughly honest, unambiguous term, it admits of no paltering and no evasion, and the need of the world, now as ever, is for clear-cut issues and unambiguous speech.

The world may admire the truth-tellers, but few will want to employ them.

I shall always tell you everything.

I always tell the truth when I'm drunk. In vino vomitas.

Truth-tellers are not always palatable. There is a preference for candy bars.

I'm not telling the troot, no?

Yes, I sounded like a pathetic weenie. I prefer to think of it as showing my softer side.

I told the truth and shamed the devil.

I'm the kind of person, if I don't like you, unfortunately you know that.

Candor and generosity, unless tempered by due moderation, leads to ruin.

Now I get why I'm incapable of flirting for I can't Lie!

Honesty is vulnerability. Sadly, not everyone can handle someone's honesty. However, lying allows people to be comfortable.

There are stars who are proficiently paranoid enough to hide what they really think. I can't.

I have never claimed to do the right kind of things and make politically correct statements.

I have never hidden my marital status.

As politicians we ought not so much to ground our hopes on the reasonableness of the thing we ask, as on the reasonableness of the person whom we ask it: who would expect discretion from a fool, candor from a tyrant, or justice from a villain?

When you want to help people, you tell them the truth. When you want to help yourself, you tell them what they want to hear.

Normally I tell the truth whether it's nice or not.

That's what us northern people do don't we? Don't mince our words, just say it how it is.

I don't like people who hide things. We're not perfect, we all have things that people might not like to see, and I like to show my faults.

I'm the straight-talking woman in your life who is going to be really honest with you, but come from a place of love. I'm not talking down to you; I do this from my heart.

I'm objective because I tell the truth.