Frankness Quotes

42 quotes by 40 authors

It is the weak and confused who worship the pseudosimplicities of brutal directness. — Marshall McLuhan
A marriage based on full confidence, based on complete and unqualified frankness on both sides; they are not keeping anything back; there's no deception underneath… — Henrik Ibsen
The sailor is frankness, the landsman is finesse. Life is not a game with the sailor, demanding the long head — Herman Melville
Honesty and wisdom are such a delightful pastime, at another person's expense! — Nathaniel Hawthorne
Lies kill love, it's been said. Well, what about frankness, then. — Abel Hermant
The expression of vanity and self-love becomes less offensive, when it retains something of simplicity and frankness. — Alexander von Humboldt
Life is too short to be little. Man is never so manly as when he feels deeply, acts boldly, and expresses himself with frankness and… — Benjamin Disraeli
We appreciate frankness from those who like us. Frankness from others is called insolence. — Andre Maurois
If you wish to preserve your secret, wrap it up in frankness. — Alexander Smith
All cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness. — Tennessee Williams
My dream of politics all my life has been that it is the common business, that it is something we owe to each other to… — Woodrow Wilson
Yes, you know enough of my frankness to believe me capable of that. After abusing you so abominably to your face, I could have no… — Jane Austen
Frankness is not a license to say anything you want, wherever and whenever you want. It is not rudeness. — Rick Warren
The fact is, the Time Traveller was one of those men who are too clever to be believed: you never felt that you saw all… — H.G. Wells
I have a different idea of elegance. I don't dress like a fop, it's true, but my moral grooming is impeccable. I never appear in… — Edmond Rostand
...and yet could swear it was just then that I fell in love. It wasn't, of course, simply the onions -- it was the sudden… — Graham Greene
Frankness invites frankness. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The love of their country is with them only a mode of flattering its master; as soon as they think that master can no longer… — Marquis De Custine
''Honesty and frankness make you vulnerable. Be honest and frank anyway'' — Cendie
The Paradoxical Commandments People are illogical, unreasonable, and self-centered. Love them anyway. If you do good, people will accuse you of selfish ulterior motives. Do… — Unknown Author

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