“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
We can talk frankly about our defects only to those who recognise our qualities. — Andre Maurois Copy Share Image
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
It is the weak and confused who worship the pseudosimplicities of brutal directness. — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
You must study to be frank with the world: Frankness is the child of honesty and courage. — Robert E. Lee 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
If you are kind, people may accuse you of ulterior motives. Be kind anyway. — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
“Flaubert prided himself on his frankness; it was indeed brutal.” — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
...and yet could swear it was just then that I fell in love. It wasn't, of course, simply the onions -- it… — Graham Greene 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
“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
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
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
The ease of his manner freed me from painful restraint; the friendly frankness, as correct as cordial, with which he treated me,… — Charlotte Bronte 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
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
People are unreasonable, illogical and self-centered. Love them anyway… Honesty and frankness make you vulnerable. Be honest and frank anyway… What you… — Mother Teresa 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
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
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
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
Revealing yourself, physically or emotionally, to cast and crew is frequently uncomfortable. But it is essential if you want to to tell… — Gale Harold Copy Share Image
The love of their country is with them only a mode of flattering its master; as soon as they think that master… — Marquis De Custine Copy Share Image
“Perhaps the reader is astonished by the frankness with which I expose and emphasize my mediocrity; let him remember that frankness is… — Machado de Assis 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
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
There are too many false things in the world, and I don't want to be a part of them. If you say… — Johnny Bench 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
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
“What was the point, I told myself, of trying to explain to people who would never understand? Frankness just stirred up trouble… — Liza Dalby 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
