Frankness Quotes
42 quotes by 40 authors
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I encountered among my comrades the most varied human traits, from frankness to reserve, from goodness, uprightness and kindness, to brutality and baseness.
— Georg Brandes
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One must be frank to be relevant.
— Corazon Aquino
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Isn't beer the holy libation of sincerity? The potion that dispels all hypocrisy, any charade of fine manners? The drink that does nothing worse than…
— Milan Kundera
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Frankness is a jewel; only the young can afford it.
— Mark Twain
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The historian should be fearless and incorruptible; a man of independence, loving frankness and truth; one who, as the poets says, calls a fig a…
— Lucian
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As far as the education of children is concerned I think they should be taught not the little virtues but the great ones. Not thrift…
— Natalia Ginzburg
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You must study to be frank with the world: frankness is the child of honesty and courage. Say just what you mean to do on…
— Robert E. Lee
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In a world where success is the measure and justification of all things the figure of Him who was sentenced and crucified remains a stranger…
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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The 'frankness' of people sunk below shame is a very cheap frankness.
— C.S. Lewis
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I expected so much from life and if I had not seen it so close, I would to this day be expecting something. What treasures…
— Ivan Goncharov
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A sound marriage is not based on complete frankness; it is based on a sensible reticence.
— Morris L. Ernst
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Adhere To - Faith, Unity, Sacrifice. Avoid - Back-biting, Falsehood and Crookedness. Admire - Frankness, Honesty, and Large-heartedness. Control - Tongue, Temper, and Tossing of…
— Sivananda
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A crook is a crook, and there's something healthy about his frankness in the matter. But any guy who pretends he is enforcing the law…
— Al Capone
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There is no wisdom like frankness.
— Benjamin Disraeli
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The ease of his manner freed me from painful restraint; the friendly frankness, as correct as cordial, with which he treated me, drew me to…
— Charlotte Bronte
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Crowds stand around all day long and criticise that bridge, and find fault with it, and tell with unlimited frankness how it ought to have…
— Mark Twain
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People are unreasonable, illogical and self-centered. Love them anyway.... Honesty and frankness make you vulnerable. Be honest and frank anyway.... What you spend years building…
— Mother Teresa
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Frankness is usually a euphemism for rudeness.
— Muriel Spark
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One man's frankness is another man's vulgarity.
— Kevin Smith
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We are franker towards others than towards ourselves.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
Who Wrote These Frankness Quotes
40 authors contributed a total of 42 Frankness Quotes, led by these top contributors: