Quotes About Candor

Unless it's a lie!" I blurted. "You tell 'em, Bick!" yelled Beck. "I just did!" "I know. I heard you." "Cool.

Yes, you know enough of my frankness to believe me capable of that. After abusing you so abominably to your face, I could have no scruple in abusing you to all your relations." -Elizabeth Bennet

I ask only what I want to be told.

Comment, avec votre bon sens, pouvez-vous être aussi loyalement aveuglée sur la sottise d'autrui ? Il n'y a que vous qui ayez assez de candeur pour ne voir jamais chez les gens que leur bon côté...

Fingir candor es algo bastante corriente, se ve en todas partes. Pero ser cándido sin ostentación ni premeditación, quedarse con lo bueno de cada uno, mejorarlo aun, y no decir nada de lo malo, eso sólo lo haces tú.

Fingir candor es algo bastante corriente, se ve en todas partes. Pero ser cándido sin ostentación ni premeditación, quedarse con lo bueno de cada uno, mejorarlo aún, y no decir nada de lo malo, eso sólo lo haces tú.

Hell, bravery didn't have anything to do with it. I was shitfaced.

I don't want to tell President Obama how to make a speech. He's a much better speech maker than I am. But I think always to tell the truth in a sometimes blatant way, even though it might be temporarily unpopular, is the best approach.

Nudity has never seemed to bother Grace Jones. Her art has thrived, in part, on a physical candor that both shocked people and redrew the boundaries of taste, beauty, and eroticism around her masculinity, ebony skin, and unrelenting intensity.

We need space to discuss unspoken, uncomfortable dark truths.

I was both loved and hated for being upfront. But I was just being myself.

I have never made any secret of any of my thoughts or areas of interest. I've always been honest, open, and upfront.

At times, you have to maybe speak out of turn or say a little bit too much which upsets a few people.

I'm not going to just refrain from giving information I hear just because it might upset some people.

If you want to be witty, work on your character and say what you think on every occasion.

My bosses cautioned me about my candor. Now my GE career is over, and I'm telling you that it was my candor that helped make it work.

If something stinks, I say it stinks. But I try to massage it a little and not be as cutting, come behind it with a joke: Hey, I cut you deep, but now let me put a couple of stitches in you.

I'm just going to be myself. And when you're bein' yourself, you don't have to back up lies or the stories you told. You don't got to sugarcoat nothin'.

Go right straight down the road, to do what is best, and to do it frankly and without evasion.

Republicans prefer straight talk to politically correct talk!

Even if it's a bit blunt, I really appreciate somebody being straight with you.

See, I'm a very straight forward person.

I'm a straight shooter, a New York City girl. I see things as they are and call them as they are.

It seems to me that the way to remove people's cynicism is, when asked a straight question, to give a straight answer.