Quotes About Candor

Who cannot open an honest mind No friend will he be of mine.

Honesty is the voice that is acceptable in every matter.

She was one of those people who are irrevocably, incurably honest and therefore both inflexible and vulnerable at the same time.

Festive alcohol sometimes leads to an excess of honesty.

I have always wanted to deal with everyone I meet candidly and honestly. If I have made any assertion not warranted by facts, and it is pointed out to me, I will withdraw it cheerfully.

Honesty, for me, is usually the worst policy imaginable.

I like the girls who are honest, because honesty is important.

Most writers flinch at the thought of being completely honest about themselves. So absolute honesty is what marks the true modern.

I'm the voice of honesty.

I have built my reputation on honesty, I have sometimes been too honest.

I think we are all disgusted by the way George W. Bush's administration has allowed honesty and candor to seep into the genteel world of international affairs.

I am fortunate to have been well paid for an almost pathological honesty.

It's simply impossible for me to filter my thoughts and feelings. I tell it from my point of view. I'm an open book.

I'm frank brutally frank. And even when I'm not frank I look frank.

The easiest way to be inscrutable is to be completely straightforward and honest. Then no one will be able to figure out what you're up to.

Why would you ever premedicate honesty? To hesitate is to overthink how you feel. A blurted out answer is usually the most genuine.

I lie without a mask, thus I am an honest man.

I am a very frank person and that's how I hope to remain. I don't like to pretend to be polite. What you see is what you get.

Always be sincere, even if you don't mean it.

It is far better to know the painful truth than to live with a kindly falsehood.

Honesty is as much saying everything as it is saying what is true.

Why lie? I'm not going to be a hypocrite and say the opposite of what I think, like some others do.

say what you feeldon't hold back because if you don't you will regret it

A full-throttled deployment of the practices of strategic communication would kill candor and leave truth bereft to fend for herself in the backstabbing night of political bogeys.