Quotes About Candor

I am one of those people that if you are going to say something, just say it. I take it on the chin.

I like people who tell you what they think straight away instead of going around in circles.

I'm probably the most honest person you'll ever meet - to a fault, like, I-will-hurt-your-feelings honest. I'm sure if I lied about anything, it would have been silly, but I haven't retained that information.

Nothing really surprises me anymore. You put yourself out there - you're open and honest with what you have to deal with.

The truth is unpalatable.

I do not play games, but always just say what's on my mind. Ostentatious modesty - for fools. If a man afraid of your honesty, it means that he is not the one you need.

I never say anything of a man that I have the smallest scruple of saying to him.

When I see a spade, I call it a spade. I'm glad to say I have never seen a spade. The man who would call a spade a spade should be compelled to use it. It's the only thing he's fit for.

When we speak freely, let us speak plainly, for plain speech is wholesome; especially, plain speech about public affairs and public men.

There are some things which men confess with ease, and others with difficulty.

If I feel strongly, I say it. I know I can do more good by being vocal than by staying quiet. I'd have a whole lot more money if I lied, but I wouldn't enjoy spending it.

Honesty is something you can't wear out.

What you see is kinda what you get with me. I'm a very real person, or I hope to be, anyway. I don't have nothing to hide

Good sense and good-nature are never separated, though the ignorant world has thought otherwise. Good-nature, by which I mean beneficence and candor, is the product of right reason.

Kids are truthful by nature.

A world of vested interests is not a world which welcomes the disruptive force of candor.

Unfortunately, people who always tell the truth don't have many friends.

Poetry's role is to provide spontaneous individual candor as distinct from manipulation and brainwash.

Unlike some politicians, I can admit to a mistake.

A lot of times in politics you have people look you in the eye and tell you what's not on their mind.

I'm pretty transparent and very honest almost to a fault. I don't hide anything or sugarcoat anything. I don't play politics because that means I'd have to lie. I'm just forthright in my whole being.

Never say anything on the phone that you wouldn't want your mother to hear at your trial.

If you like or dislike something about them, Say it to their face.

The thing that I really want to try and do is just live my life really openly and honestly. I think there's so much power in that, as simple as it is.