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Quotes About Bluntness

socializing with others is more exhausting than refreshing. I have to consider everything I want to say, and then filter it through my mind before I speak so what emerges from my mouth doesn't offend with its bluntness.
~ Sylvia Day
I am not cruel — only truthful.
~ Sylvia Plath
I would apologize for my rudeness, if I had any manners. Happily, I don't.
~ Tamora Pierce
Robert, plain-spoken man that he was, made no attempt to gloss over the fact that her appearance was not up to her usual standards. "You look as if you've been attacked by dogs
~ Julia Quinn
I call it like I see it. I don't hold back when it comes to being candid on the hot issues.
~ Jerry Doyle
Too much truth is uncouth.
~ Franklin P. Adams
Yea I may come across as blunt, but I will say the truth even if its bitter, that's just me. You either hate me for it or respect me for it.
~ Tilicia Haridat
I shook my head. "Not Interested" I said. he straightened up. "Not interested in what?" In you." I couldn't be more blunt. Excuse me, miss, but I was going to ask if you would like to sign up for karaoke.
~ Karen E. Olson
Better to be honest and direct, even if it does piss off a few people. Jaffe, Stuart. Southern Bound - A Paranormal-Mystery (Max Porter Mysteries Book 1) (p. 48). Stuart Jaffe. Kindle Edition.
~ Stuart Jaffe
You know, it's almost impressive," he said after a moment, sounding less wobbly. "You're nearly dead and you're still the rudest person I've ever met. You're welcome again, by the way." "Given that you're at least half responsible for this situation, I refuse to thank you," I said.
~ Naomi Novik
Why don't they just take him out? I asked. I'm not politically minded, as I guess you can tell. Mr. Cataliades was smiling at me. So direct, so classic, he said. So American.
~ Charlaine Harris
I am not a person who will mince words.
~ Ekta Kapoor
A familiar Gusism was to greet a friend with 'Hello, don't be a cunt all yer life.
~ Keith Richards
People called Mom that a lot, probably because she had a hard time holding her tongue and could be brutally blunt when she disagreed with you. She'd explode like a thunderstorm, and then be fine again. Anyhow, she didn't care that people called her a bitch. "It's just another word for feminist," she told me with pride.
~ Gayle Forman
If somebody asks for my opinion, I tell them my opinion, whether it's what they want to hear or not.
~ Payne Stewart
When you sit that way, you look kind of like a beach ball with a head," he continued. "Your haircut is really, really bad, I'm probably going to lose my job for helping you this way, and I'm dying to fuck you." He glanced at her. "That honest enough for you?
~ Suzanne Brockmann
As Tayna would say if I wanted to hear from an ass i would have fart.
~ Suzanne Wright Feral Sins
I don't like to not call a spade a spade.
~ Marc Andreessen
I call a spade a spade.
~ Lee Zeldin
I just want a hot cup of coffee,black,and I don't want to hear about your troubles.
~ Charles Bukowski
Don't butter me, Babe.
~ Charles Bukowski
They do not practise the art of conversation in quite the way the English do, but are straightforward to the point of bluntness.
~ Tracy Chevalier
I'm not a tough guy. I'm just delivering the truth and only the truth and if you can't deal with it, too bad.
~ Kevin O'Leary
Butch clapped him on the shoulder. "Listen to me. You have the fashion sense of a park bench and the interpersonal skills of a meat cleaver—" "Is this supposed to be helping?
~ J.R. Ward