The expression of vanity and self-love becomes less offensive, when it retains something of simplicity and frankness. — Alexander von Humboldt Copy Share Image
Yes, you know enough of my frankness to believe me capable of that. After abusing you so abominably to your face, I… — Jane Austen 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
“We invest ourselves with an abusive superiority when we tell someone what we think of him and of what he does. Frankness… — Emil M. Cioran 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
If you are kind, people may accuse you of ulterior motives. Be kind anyway. — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
It is the weak and confused who worship the pseudosimplicities of brutal directness. — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
We can talk frankly about our defects only to those who recognise our qualities. — Andre Maurois Copy Share Image
When perfect frankness comes in at the door love flies out of the window. — Helen Rowland Copy Share Image
I think I'm cold, indeed icy, hard. Then there's another reason, one that goes with my frankness: I don't put on act. — Indira Gandhi Copy Share Image
Frankness is not a license to say anything you want, wherever and whenever you want. It is not rudeness. — Rick Warren Copy Share Image
I encountered among my comrades the most varied human traits, from frankness to reserve, from goodness, uprightness and kindness, to brutality and… — Georg Brandes Copy Share Image
“you had said those things to him, you understand, you would have heard some truths in return. If you had been frank… — Rachel Cusk Copy Share Image
“I'm going to be frank, Max..." "Of course. All cards on the table." But he gave me a poker smile.” — Alfred Alcorn 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
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
There is more freedom confessing our weaknesses and shortcomings than in pretending we have it all together — LeCrae Copy Share Image
Life is very narrow. Bring any club or company of intelligent men together again after ten years, and if the presence of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Yes, you know enough of my frankness to believe me capable of that. After abusing you so abominably to your face, I… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
The fact is, the Time Traveller was one of those men who are too clever to be believed: you never felt that… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The sailor is frankness, the landsman is finesse. Life is not a game with the sailor, demanding the long head--no intricate game… — Herman Melville 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
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
A crook is a crook, and there's something healthy about his frankness in the matter. But any guy who pretends he is… — Al Capone Copy Share Image
Crowds stand around all day long and criticise that bridge, and find fault with it, and tell with unlimited frankness how it… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I expected so much from life and if I had not seen it so close, I would to this day be expecting… — Ivan Goncharov Copy Share Image
In a world where success is the measure and justification of all things the figure of Him who was sentenced and crucified… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
It is not quite true that there are no good letters written in America: among my own circle of correspondents there, there… — Harriet Martineau 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
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
“He showed the fineness of his nature by being kinder to me after that misunderstanding than before. Nay, the very incident which,… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
We appreciate frankness from those who like us. Frankness from others is called insolence. — Andre Maurois 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
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