Quotes About Plain-speaking

I have a tough time beating around the bush and just saying something you want to hear. I kind of say it how it is, even if I don't realize that's maybe not what I should say at the moment.

Australians are pretty blunt and we say things how they really are.

I am a blunt person.

People don't like when people are straight forward. They like things to be sugar coated. They like to beat around the bush. I'm not that type of person.

When you look at my campaign, I don't go around sugarcoating things.

When I see a spade, I call it a spade. I'm glad to say I have never seen a spade. The man who would call a spade a spade should be compelled to use it. It's the only thing he's fit for.

Im not rude, I'm just plain honest.

I'm going to tell it like it is. I hope you can take it like it is.

I cut to the point. I don't mealy-mouth around about it.

I am a straight talker. I am not politically correct or diplomatic.

I don't like to sugarcoat. I don't like to say things without feeling it. I like to get to the point and say exactly what I'm talking about.

Let me tell you something about myself. I am a straight shooter.

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.

I enjoy people who aren't afraid to say what they mean. It makes life so much easier!

They speak their mind in Yorkshire.

He is too intelligent. He sees too clearly and speaks too plainly.

I have a reputation for being a straight-talker.

F]rom me you shall hear the whole truth; not, I can assure you, gentlemen, in flowery language... decked out with fine words and phrases; no, what you will hear will be a straightforward speech in the first words that occur to me, confident as I am in the justice of my cause; and I do not want any of you to expect anything different.

Well, if I am not vulgar, neither is my book. I wrote myself. Suggestiveness is always vulgar. But truth never. My book is not even remotely suggestive. I call things by their names. That is all.

I am not a person who will mince words.

I don't like to not call a spade a spade.

I call a spade a spade.

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

That's what us northern people do don't we? Don't mince our words, just say it how it is.