Quotes About Bluntness

Fucking bastards are simple by nature.

I have this propensity to just come out and say things. That's how I am in real life.

Captain Billings," he drawled finally, "if you will pardon my candor, I might remark that you are something of an ass, don't you know.

I am just very honest and frank, and a lot of people cant handle that.

In the period before the arrival of Mrs. Thatcher, politics had been in such low esteem. Everything was so hedged, so mealy-mouthed. Then along came this woman who seemed to have no manners at all and said exactly what she thought. Everyone's eyes were popping and their jaws were dropping, and I really enjoyed that.

The person who is brutally honest enjoys the brutality quite as much as the honesty. Possibly more.

Sometimes I wish I was poetic and subtle. I write very bold and blunt and tell it like it is.

I'm someone who says what he thinks.

I listened humbly, resentfully. I knew I did not have charm. Neither Laura nor I had it. We were too secretive for charm, or else too blunt. We'd never learned it, because Reenie had spoiled us. She felt that who we were ought to be enough for anybody. We shouldn't have to lay ourselves out for people, court them with coaxings and wheedlings and eye-batting displays.

That's harsh.

This is a f***ing mess," I said tactfully.

You ain't gonna like what I have to tell you, but I'm gonna tell you anyway.

Always been brutally honest. Some people don't like that because it's rare nowadays.

The only thing I do is say what everyone else is thinking but doesn't have the guts to say.

Reminds me of something my grandfather would say. He'd say, I'm goin' upstairs to fuck your grandmother. He was an honest man, and he wasn't going to bullshit a four-year-old.

Twat is twat and that is that.

I'm not like most comedians. I don't deal with just heckles - I'm also dealing with threats and anger. Here I am, a brown person on stage being quite blunt. I talk about white privilege; I talk about U.S. imperialistic practices; I talk about colonialism. I'm not saying things that are easy for people to laugh at.

I don't have time to beat around the bush. The health-care plan as proposed by Mrs. Clinton is socialism. There's no soft way to peddle it. There is not other way to describe it.

Because he was an asshole. I'm not sayin' nothin' I wouldn't say to his face. He embraced his assholeness.

There are moments in which stupid people say clever things, obtuse people say sharp things, and good-natured people say ill-natured things.

He did not tell Phineas, in so many words, that he was proposing to make an ass of himself.

Nothing I say is harsh. What I do say is the truth. If people have a problem with that, they need to realize that's on them. That's not on me.

Toddlers are couthless. Lord. They are so couth-deficient. They'll tell you, 'Those shoes look like my nightmares' without a second thought because your feelings don't matter to them.

All right, I am often brash, rude and brutally direct. Someday I'm going to die and I don't have time to toe-dance around the periphery of hatred.