Quotes About Bluntness

You look like utter hell," Circe told me. "I wish you'd stop sugar-coating things, Water Witch.

The truth is usually inappropriate.

I found early on in teaching, if you're too blunt an instrument, the students discredit you and think you're just being mean. They're not interested in what you have to say.

She spoke out, with plainness and directness. When you had to deal a mortal blow, why try to lighten it?

What we lack in subtlety, we make up for with a lack of subtlety.

I'm not always the most diplomatic person.

I am not a diplomatic person.

I am a direct person.

I say things directly and to the point because I don't know anything else.

I am very straight-forward and direct. If I disagree with something, I say something about it.

Tanushree is very honest - if she dislikes something she will say it to your face whether you like it or not.

I'm the kind of guy if you ask me a question I'll tell you the truth if it's hurting me or not. If it's good or bad, I'll cut to the chase and that's the way it is.

I know that some people shy away from what I say. They think it is too blunt, but when you don't give people that, they feel like you are being fake and you're not telling the truth. So it's like, you want me to tell the truth, but when I do, it's too much for you.

I appreciated her bluntness. Maybe it came with her sudden sobriety. Here she was back in the brightly lit world she had been avoiding for twenty years, and it was exactly as awful as she remembered it.

Plus, he was a plainspoken man. Four decades later, when former Mistys were interviewed, they to a man spoke of Day's bluntness. "He called a spade a fucking spade," one said.

Grissom chose to remain completely fair and unbiased: he told every single one of them to go to hell.

You don't mince words." "Just garlic.

I know the pros and cons of being absolutely blunt.

I know the pros and cons of not being diplomatic.

So to me, fat just seems to be right to the point and the most descriptive way to say it.

It's not secret that usually I don't have a filter.

I always say what I think... I'm not brave - I just have no filter.

I say things I shouldn't and I can't stop myself. It's called no filter.

He seldom spoke so harshly in public.