My Frankness Quotes

#1. 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.
-Elizabeth Bennet

Jane Austen

#2. I have found a unique opportunity to distinguish myself and to learn my trade. I am a general officer in the army of the United States of America. My zeal in their cause and my frankness have won their trust.

Marquis De Lafayette

#3. Defender of the liberty that I idolize, myself more free than anyone, in coming as a friend to offer my services to this intriguing republic, I bring to it only my frankness and my good will; no ambition, no self-interest; in working for my glory, I work for their happiness.

Marquis De Lafayette

#4. All cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness.

Tennessee Williams

#5. 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 fervor.

Benjamin Disraeli

#6. There is no wisdom like frankness.

Benjamin Disraeli

#7. You must study to be frank with the world: Frankness is the child of honesty and courage.

Robert E.Lee

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

Mark Twain

#9. Indeed, there was a frankness in his face, an honesty, and an undisguised show of his pride in her, and his love for her, which were, to me, the best of good looks.

Charles Dickens

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

Alexander Von Humboldt

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

Alexander Smith

#12. 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.

Charles Dickens

#13. Honesty and frankness make you vulnerable; be honest and frank anyway.

Kent M. Keith

#14. It is arrogance in us to call frankness, fairness, and chivalry 'masculine' when we see them in a woman; it is arrogance in them to describe a man's sensitiveness or tact or tenderness as 'feminine.

C.S. Lewis

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

Kevin Smith

#16. Dissembling was so large a part of middle-class life that honesty and frankness seemed the most devious stratagem of all. The most outright lie was the closest one came to truth.

J.G. Ballard

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

Samuel Johnson

#18. The men of this party had both the quality and the defect of frankness in their opinions.

Leo Tolstoy

#19. Her body moved with the frankness that comes from solitary habits. But solitude is only a human presumption. Every quiet step is thunder to beetle life underfoot; every choice is a world made new for the chosen. All secrets are witnessed.

Barbara Kingsolver

#20. 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

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

Alfred Alcorn

#22. He spoke loudly, declaring his ambitions and opinions with a frankness that might be called hubristic (if one was skeptical) or dauntless (if one was not).

Eleanor Catton

#23. I suppose if we gain anything from this unsought experience it will be an appreciation for honesty- frankness on the part of our politicians, our friends, our loves, ourselves. No more liars in public places. (And the bed and the bar are, in their way, as public as the floor of Congress.)

Tim O'Brien

#24. Frankness is usually a euphemism for rudeness.

Muriel Spark

#25. 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 understand and discuss with absolute frankness.

Woodrow Wilson

#26. 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.

Dorothy Parker

#27. The problem with holiness is that once we look into the face of it we are no longer capable of taking that which is odious and filthy and somehow pretending that it's translucent and clean. In other words, we have to do one of the most revolting things possible; we have to face ourselves.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

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

Morris L. Ernst

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

C.S. Lewis

#30. 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.

Girdhar Joshi

#31. Where, in the dull eyes of doating men, are the laughing light and life of childhood, the gaiety that has known no check, the frankness that has felt no chill, the hope that has never withered, the joys that fade in blossoming?

Charles Dickens

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

Abel Hermant

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

Mary McCarthy

#34. 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.

Charles Caleb Colton

#35. You know, he said, our work is difficult: we confront
much sorrow and disappointment.
He gazed at me with increasing frankness.
I was like you once, he added, in love with turbulence.

Louise Gluck

#36. Life is very narrow. Bring any club or company of intelligent men together again after ten years, and if the presence of some penetrating and calming genius could dispose them to frankness, what a confession of insanities would come up!

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#37. 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 sense of an individual woman, of a frankness that was so often later to make me happy and miserable.

Graham Greene

#38. 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

Charlotte Bronte

#39. We are franker towards others than towards ourselves.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#40. He makes a gesture, designed to impersonate frankness.

Hilary Mantel

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

Andre Maurois

#42. 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 hear, they speak of everything with a frankness which is the more startling because those who listen to it become responsible.

Marquis De Custine