My frankness has got me into a lot of trouble. I try to temper it down now. As you get older, you… — Twinkle Khanna Copy Share Image
I'm hoping to bring some raunchy, risky, soulful frankness to the stage, really. — Ari Lennox Copy Share Image
“mutual frankness that she could work out who she herself was and what she actually wanted.” — Rachel Cusk Copy Share Image
“If we’re honest, what makes something impossible is not our fear. Rather, it is our indifference.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
''Honesty and frankness make you vulnerable. Be honest and frank anyway'' — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There is more freedom confessing our weaknesses and shortcomings than in pretending we have it all together — LeCrae Copy Share Image
“The mutual preference of frankness over flattery is what leads to iron sharpening iron.” — Torry Martin Copy Share Image
You must study to be frank with the world: frankness is the child of honesty and courage. Say just what you mean… — Robert E. Lee Copy Share Image
Our language, once homely and colloquial, seeks to aggrandize our meanest activities with polysyllabic terms or it retreats from frankness into a… — Mary McCarthy Copy Share Image
“Display politeness and frankness always both in action and conversation. Don’t keep engaging in useless arguments. It scares your dreams away. Talk… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
My dream of politics all my life has been that it is the common business, that it is something we owe to… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
“Indeed, there was a frankness in his face, an honesty, and an undisguised show of his pride in her, and his love… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
He that openly tells, his friends all that he thinks of them, must expect that they will secretly tell his enemies much… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
“In a society that valued politeness over truth, where malice and subterfuge were commonplace, even accepted, Lily’s frankness was labeled an eccentricity… — Mary Campisi Copy Share Image
It may be that this autobiography [Aimee Semple McPherson's] is set down in sincerity, frankness, and simple effort. It may be, too,… — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
A psychologically engrossing novel about the homes we make-in our houses, in our neighborhoods, and in the hearts of our loved ones.… — Peter Ho Davies Copy Share Image
A marriage based on full confidence, based on complete and unqualified frankness on both sides; they are not keeping anything back; there's… — Henrik Ibsen Copy Share Image
“the disgust that exists indelibly between men and women and that you are always trying to purge with what you call frankness.… — Rachel Cusk Copy Share Image
Adhere To - Faith, Unity, Sacrifice. Avoid - Back-biting, Falsehood and Crookedness. Admire - Frankness, Honesty, and Large-heartedness. Control - Tongue, Temper,… — Sivananda Copy Share Image
“Oh yes, I am frequently driven to an enraged frenzy by the blatantly crass actions of others. But to be painfully honest,… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
As far as the education of children is concerned I think they should be taught not the little virtues but the great… — Natalia Ginzburg Copy Share Image
I begin to love this little creature, and to anticipate his birth as a fresh twist to a knot which I do… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
Isn't beer the holy libation of sincerity? The potion that dispels all hypocrisy, any charade of fine manners? The drink that does… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
If you are kind, people may accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives: Be kind anyway. If you are successful you will win… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
I have a different idea of elegance. I don't dress like a fop, it's true, but my moral grooming is impeccable. I… — Edmond Rostand Copy Share Image
“The ease of his manner freed me from painful restraint: the friendly frankness, as correct as cordial, with which he treated me,… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“Well, you know that was the worst of it - this suspicion of their not being inhuman. It would come slowly to… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
The historian should be fearless and incorruptible; a man of independence, loving frankness and truth; one who, as the poets says, calls… — Lucian Copy Share Image
If you have to do with one who is unquestionably a slanderer, do not excuse him by calling him frank and free-spoken;… — Saint Francis de Sales Copy Share Image
The sailor is frankness, the landsman is finesse. Life is not a game with the sailor, demanding the long head — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
A sound marriage is not based on complete frankness; it is based on a sensible reticence. — Morris L. Ernst Copy Share Image
All kinds of frankness and honesty are terrible crimes in the eyes of society. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
Honesty and wisdom are such a delightful pastime, at another person's expense! — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
We appreciate frankness from those who like us. Frankness from others is called insolence. — Andre Maurois Copy Share Image
When perfect frankness comes in at the door love flies out of the window. — Helen Rowland Copy Share Image
“More people would open up about themselves if the kind in humankind meant humans were kind.” — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
The expression of vanity and self-love becomes less offensive, when it retains something of simplicity and frankness. — Alexander von Humboldt Copy Share Image