Top 33 Mrs Candour Quotes

#1. If you don't vote, you're a moron.

Craig Ferguson

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#2. Every reader should remember the diffidence of Socrates, and repair by his candour the injuries of time: he should impute the seeming defects of his author to some chasm of intelligence, and suppose that the sense which is now weak was once forcible

Samuel Johnson

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#3. The conversation, like many others I had with people on trains, derived an easy candour from the shared journey, the comfort of the dining car, and the certain knowledge that neither of us would see each other again.

Paul Theroux

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#4. One reason we rush so quickly to the vulgar satisfactions of judgment, and love to revel in our righteous outrage, is that it spares us from the impotent pain of empathy, and the harder, messier work of understanding.

Tim Kreider

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#5. I don't like movies that are trying to preach and trying to tell you how to feel.

Don Cheadle

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#6. I used to get bullied by the popular girls at school. Today I am the popular girl, and the bullies come to my show

Lady Gaga

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#7. Affectation of candour is common enough - one meets with it everywhere. But to be candid without ostentation or design - to take the good of everybody's character and make it still better, and say nothing of the bad - belongs to you alone.

Jane Austen

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#8. We also believe candour benefits us as managers. The CEO who misleads often in public eventually misleads himself in private.

Warren Buffett

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#9. She was the oddest combination of contradictions he'd ever met -innocence and sensuality, candour and diplomacy, anxiety and utter fearlessness. He hadn't even begun to figure out how her mind worked. But she was damn well going to live long enough for him to try.

Karen Chance

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#10. I'm halfway through Patti Smith's memoir 'Just Kids,' which is heart-stoppingly vivid. It drips with beauty and hope and devastating candour. I don't want it to end.

Hattie Morahan

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#11. Candour is the brightest gem of criticism.

Isaac D'Israeli

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#12. Personal faintness, and an overpowering personal candour, were the distinguishing features of Mrs Billickin's organization. She came languishing out from her own exclusive back parlour, with the air of having been expressly brought-to for the purpose, from an accumulation of several swoons.

Charles Dickens

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#13. Society ... is tolerant of crimes, and long suffering with dullness, but it shows no mercy to those who are different from other people.

Geraldine Jewsbury

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#14. Because if you're gonna make someone choose, then you shouldn't be surprised when they don't choose you.

Alyson Noel

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#15. -'tis an old observation, and a very true one; but what's to be done, as I said before? how will you prevent people from talking? ...

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

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#16. That is what you love a friend for: the ability to change your angle of vision, bring back your best self when you feel worst. And speak the truth
but without malice. Loving candour is the secret of friendship.

Erica Jong

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#17. I felt a sensation of candour and amplitude, of the body and mind opened up, of thought diffusing at the body's edges rather than ending at the skin.

Robert Macfarlane

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#18. I have promised to dine at White's, but it is only with an old friend, so I can send him a wire to say that I am ill, or that I am prevented from coming in consequence of a subsequent engagement. I think that would be a rather nice excuse: it would have all the surprise of candour.

Oscar Wilde

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#19. But politeness and candour run together, when one is not fitting neither is the other. Then the occasion calls for silence, that frail partition between the ill-concealed and the ill-revealed, the clumsily false and the unavoidably so.

Samuel Beckett

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#20. How can a man's candour be seen in all its lustre unless he has a few failings to talk of? But he had an agreeable confidence that his faults were all of a generous kind - impetuous, arm-blooded, leonine; never crawling, crafty, reptilian.

George Eliot

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#21. God knows we are subtle creatures who are more than able to use candour to avoid acknowledging our deceptions of others and ourselves.

Stanley Hauerwas

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#22. Focus on each person's strengths and manage around his weaknesses. Don't try to fix the weaknesses. Don't try to perfect each person. Instead do everything you can to help each person cultivate his talents. Help each person become more of who he already is.

Marcus Buckingham

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#23. ...and his eyes had that splendid innocence, that opaque blue candour of the satanically fallen. ~ The French Lieutenant's Woman

John Fowles

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#24. I told a doctor once, Doc, if you want to know what's inside of me, put down the x-ray and pick up my novel!

Gerard De Marigny

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#25. Apparently too much candour can become tedious, or so Lady Emma tells me.

Sharon Kay Penman

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#26. A mountain with a wolf on it stands a little taller ...

Edward Hoagland

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#27. As we talk with candour, we open the doors to new possibilities and new areas of cooperation in advance in democracy, in combating terrorism, in energy and environment, science and technology and international peacekeeping.

Atal Bihari Vajpayee

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#28. But what can I do if you are not touched by my defects, whereas I loved yours. My candour was crushed underfoot by you.

Clarice Lispector

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#29. Sexuality and femininity is an accumulation of age and wisdom and comfort in your own skin.

Reese Witherspoon

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#30. I wish to sing of my interior visions with the naive candour of a child.

Claude Debussy

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#31. Be slow to teach, and quick to learn.

Matshona Dhliwayo

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#32. A true party-man hates and despises candour.

Adam Smith

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#33. Johnny Depp, as far as I'm concerned, is number one. Of his generation, there's no one who can touch him. Some performers, today, it's like looking at holes in the air.

Christopher Lee

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