Frankness Quotes

Frankness Quote of the day

I encountered among my comrades the most varied human traits, from frankness to reserve, from goodness, uprightness and kindness, to brutality and baseness.

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 every occasion, and take it for granted that you mean to do right.

If you wish to preserve your secret, wrap it up in frankness.

We appreciate frankness from those who like us. Frankness from others is called insolence.

Frankness is not a license to say anything you want, wherever and whenever you want. It is not rudeness.

There is no wisdom like frankness.

All kinds of frankness and honesty are terrible crimes in the eyes of society.

One man's frankness is another man's vulgarity.

The expression of vanity and self-love becomes less offensive, when it retains something of simplicity and frankness.

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 with fervour.

Frankness is a jewel; only the young can afford it.

Lies kill love, it's been said. Well, what about frankness, then.

Frankness is usually a euphemism for rudeness.

He that openly tells, his friends all that he thinks of them, must expect that they will secretly tell his enemies much that they do not think of him.

We are franker towards others than towards ourselves.

The sailor is frankness, the landsman is finesse. Life is not a game with the sailor, demanding the long head

When perfect frankness comes in at the door love flies out of the window.

It may be that this autobiography [Aimee Semple McPherson's] is set down in sincerity, frankness, and simple effort. It may be, too, that the Statue of Liberty is situated in Lake Ontario.

A sound marriage is not based on complete frankness; it is based on a sensible reticence.

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 scruple in abusing you to all your relations.

Our language, once homely and colloquial, seeks to aggrandize our meanest activities with polysyllabic terms or it retreats from frankness into a stammering verbosity.

The more especially, as in my juvenile frankness, I took some credit to myself for being so confidential and felt that I was quite the patron of my two respectful entertainers.

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 him

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.

The 'frankness' of people sunk below shame is a very cheap frankness.

In order that all men may be taught to speak truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it.

A spirit of candor and frankness, when wholly unaccompanied with coarseness, headmired in others, but he could not acquire it himself.

I'm going to be frank, Max...""Of course. All cards on the table." But he gave me a poker smile.

Being the soothsayer of the tribe is a dirty job, but someone has to do it.

Display politeness and frankness always both in action and conversation. Don’t keep engaging in useless arguments. It scares your dreams away. Talk sensibly.

In the guise of frankness many people ruin their world by saying unpleasant things to friends and family. The bad words make them a bad world.

If we’re honest, what makes something impossible is not our fear. Rather, it is our indifference.