Quotes About Bluntness

There is no wisdom like frankness.

Forgive me for being such a straight shooter. Nowadays they say it's being direct, but your mama called it being an asshole.

I have a reputation for speaking my mind. I like to think my candor and bluntness will give you the answers.

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

Randy was forever telling people, without rancor, that they were full of shit. That was the only way to get anything done in hacking. No one took it personally.

Yeah I've got a mouth on me, but what I do is I give it as I see it.

He cocked his head to the side. "Did he die well?" "He died screaming." Charlotte's bluntness startled Tessa. "What a beautiful thing to hear.

a laugh that was as rough and harsh and frank as the sea itself; that arose out of coarse feelings and blunted sensibilities, from natures that knew neither courtesy nor gentleness.

As an engineer he favored blunt speech

I've never been uncomfortable sharing stuff. It's almost the opposite. I'll say the most blunt, brutally honest thing about any situation.

I don't believe in pulling punches or being judicious, as the standard in literary criticism or academic musicology.

[To the man who came up to her at a party and exclaimed effusively, 'Tallulah! I haven't seen you for 41 years!':] I thought I told you to wait in the car.

Much has been written about Jack Welch's style of management—especially his toughness and bluntness, which some people call ruthlessness. We would argue that the core of his management legacy is that he forced realism into all of GE's management processes, making it a model of an execution culture.

Truth-tellers are not always palatable. There is a preference for candy bars.

The telegraphic style banishes all the forms of politeness

The man who could call a spade a spade should be compelled to use one.

He was right. And he was an insensitive shit.

Anything short of cannibalism is just beating around the bush.

It was Lisa, aged five, whose mother asked her to thank my wife for the peas we had sent them from our garden. 'I thought the peas were awful, I wish you and Mrs. Thurber were dead, and I hate trees,' said Lisa.

Even if it's a bit blunt, I really appreciate somebody being straight with you.

In America, people are just so straightforward when they dislike things.

If I do get offended, you'll probably know about it because I'm very honest and I don't hold back when it comes to speaking my mind.

Pray do! I think that whenever one has anything unpleasant to say, one should always be quite candid.

One of the advantages a sister has when arguing with a brother is that she is under no obligation to be tactful. If she wishes to tell him that he is an idiot and ought to have his head examined, she can do so and, going further, can add that it is a thousand pities that no-one ever thought of smothering him with a pillow in his formative years.