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Quotes About Candor

People always love and respect characters who speak the truth, even if the truth hurts.
~ David Duchovny
No, youngsire, the truth. It's a whimsy of mine; at table we speak of each other with candor." "Only at table?" "Isn't that enough? We spend the rest of the day repairing the damage.
~ David Feintuch
Why do you say that?" "Because you don't hide your feelings very well. You never have." "Maybe that's because I don't try.
~ David Handler
My talent is to speak my mind. God won't object if you bury that talent.
~ John Wesley
I don't think I'd be a very good parent. I'd be too honest.
~ Karl Pilkington
True friends say good things behind your back and bad things to your face.
~ Unknown
I'm a pretty bad liar, and I'm not very good at keeping secrets. I'm one of those people who is like, "Let me tell you what happened today. You're never going to believe it!"
~ Jennifer Love Hewitt
Tis a great confidence in a friend to tell him your faults; greater to tell him his.
~ Benjamin Franklin
What mental health needs is more sunlight, more candor, more unashamed conversation.
~ Glenn Close
The mentally ill frighten and embarrass us. And so we marginalize the people who most need our acceptance. What mental health needs is more sunlight, more candor, more unashamed conversation.
~ Glenn Close
John you are not being open with me
~ Elizabeth Proctor
Richelle E. Goodrich
~ I won't lie—I don't
Honesty is all you need.
~ Cass Elliot
People who are brutally honest get more satisfaction out of the brutality than out of the honesty.
~ Richard J. Needham
It is always well to accept your own shortcomings with candor but to regard those of your friends with polite incredulity.
~ Russell Lynes
Honest speech does not seek secret places.
~ St. Jerome
Let's tell the truth. Mr. Reagan will raise taxes, and so will I. He won't tell you. I just did.
~ Walter Mondale
There is no greater virtue than honesty.
~ Martin Sheen
I've always been about honesty, whether on the radio, whether I did a movie, whether I wrote a book. As long as you're honest, you don't lose your edge.
~ Howard Stern
To be honest, as this world goes, is to be one man picked out of ten thousand.
~ William Shakespeare, Hamlet
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
~ Honesty's the best policy.
One of the things that attracted me to Barack [Obama] was his emotional honesty. Right off the bat he said what he felt. There are no games with him - he is who he appears to be.
~ Michelle Obama
I'm a firm believer in absolute honesty.
~ Frank Langella
A little candor never leaves me. It is what protects me.
~ Antonio Porchia