Quotes About Candor

Men will confess to treason, murder, arson, false teeth, or a wig. How many of them will own up to a lack of humor?

Only your real friends will tell you when your face is dirty.

Once I started telling the truth, it was hard to stop.

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.

That was the problem with the whole goddamn world; nobody had balls enough to call a spade a spade. Dead was dead; it was a hell of a lot more permanent than a milquetoast "not being here.

Give me the avowed, the erect, the manly foe, bold I can meet, perhaps may turn his blow! But of all plagues, good Heavens, thy wrath can send, save, save, oh save me from the candid friend!

He is a fine friend. He stabs you in the front.

There was a strength in Nancy, a directness that wouldn't tolerate evasion.

Prudent people are very happy 'tis an exceeding fine thing, that's certain, but I was born without it, and shall retain to my day of Death the Humour of saying what I think.

Sincerity: willingness to spend one's own money.

If it's true, does it have to be nice? If you have something true to say, but you don't say it because you just want to be nice, isn't that sort of like a lie?

Decirle a la gente lo que quiere oír solo para que se sientan mejor no es mejor que mentir

Are you afraid of offending people? Telling them things that they don't want to hear?' 'Yuh,' I said, nodding vigorously.

Everyone else would have danced around the truth for too long a time. Lirah, was able to slap them in the face with it until it could be avoided no longer.

This one hear will never be easy, because he's never learned to be false.

You won't like me if I'm cruel." -"I don't like you now." -"We don't lie." -"I'm mortal, Irial. I can lie all I want to.

I call a fig a fig, a spade a spade.

What youve got to do is be honest. Say what you believe. Give it to them straight. Just dont wuss out.

If you join us, you have to be willing to give the world the truth - not because you love the world, but because you love the truth.

A gaffe is when a politician tells the truth – some obvious truth he isn't supposed to say.

He once told me that being politically correct was like pretending you could pick up a dog turd by the clean end.

Casualness is the enemy of pretense.

He who is not very strong in memory should not meddle with lying.

Those who are brutally honest are seldom so with themselves.