Quotes About Bluntness

#1. With my sometimes blunt indecent vocabulary & very vivid imagination, I wonder if I should be writing "other" kinds of content.

April Mae Monterrosa

#2. I stand behind what I say. If I don't want it to be out there then I won't say it. I am not out to hurt somebody. I am out to call attention to certain things but I am also out to make people laugh with my delivery and style of bluntness.

Michelle Visage

#3. Since we're all snails riding on the razor's edge, we might as well say it as it is.

Peter Tieryas

#4. A person who holds strong convictions might appear inflexible, impolite, or exceptionally obtuse, when they are merely direct.

Kilroy J. Oldster

#5. Virgil put it with Roman bluntness and economy. Dolus an virtus, quis in hoste requirat? cried Aeneas's comrade as they fought their way out of burning Troy disguised in Greek armor; which may be loosely translated: It won't matter to the enemy whether you beat him by guile or by valor.

Thaddeus Holt

#6. Am I too blunt? If the truth is too hard to swallow, should I feed you soft lies?

Edward W. Robertson

#7. Reader, if thou intendest to go any farther, I would entreat thee to stay here a little. If thou art, as many in this pretending age, a sign or title gazer, and comest into books as Cato into the theatre, to go out again, - thou hast had thy entertainment; farewell!

John Owen

#8. Honesty is the quality I value most in a friend. Not bluntness, but honesty with compassion.

Brooke Shields

#9. If you don't find the right set of eyes to see through your bull, you will always be surrounded by friends that will tell you white lies because they like your company and don't want to ruin the evening.

Shannon L. Alder

#10. Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats.

Howard Aiken

#11. Yes," Sicarius said. "We must act alone. And soon. You may be dead by morning."
"Have I mentioned how endearing your bluntness is?

Lindsay Buroker

#12. Well, [bluntness in songwriting]'s a lot cheaper than therapy ... There's been a lot of things going on for the past 10 years that I just never really confronted, or used metaphors to do so. This time out I wanted to make sure that everyone knows what I'm talking about and where I'm coming from.

Brent Smith

#13. The public business must be carried on with a certain motion, neither too quick nor too slow.

Baron De Montesquieu

#14. If God didn't want me to cross boundaries, then he wouldn't have made me a writer.

Shannon L. Alder

#15. Being rational is extremely easy for those who try to recognize an absence of the soul.

Alpha Jan

#16. Why does every deliberately cruel person describe themselves as the perfect example of necessary bluntness?

Mia Sheridan

#17. The secret to your purpose is to find what you feel is important, and not pursue what others would think is important. When you think highly of yourself, me thinking highly of you will never be enough!

Shannon L. Alder

#18. I've found that being blunt sometimes makes life easier for everyone

Matthew Quick

#19. I have a reputation for speaking my mind. I like to think my candor and bluntness will give you the answers.

John O. Brennan

#20. Nothing that is so, is so.

William Shakespeare

#21. And why does every deliberately cruel person seem to consider themselves the perfect example of necessary bluntness? As if you're supposed to thank them for mowing over your heart with their special brand of honesty.

Mia Sheridan

#22. Whoever said that time blunts all pain did not quite understand that bluntness can wound as grievously as sharp points and edges;

Neel Mukherjee

#23. She, on the other hand, had blatantly exhibited the Sagittarius traits of excessive enthusiasm and bluntness. Mr.

Nina Lane

#24. Never go to bed angry, stay up and fight.

William Congreve

#25. You don't mince words."
"Just garlic.

Joan Bauer

#26. He cocked his head to the side. "Did he die well?"
"He died screaming." Charlotte's bluntness startled Tessa.
"What a beautiful thing to hear.

Cassandra Clare

#27. Mr. Gabriel Parsons led the way to the house. He was a sugar-baker, who mistook rudeness for honesty, and abrupt bluntness for an open and candid manner; many besides Gabriel mistake bluntness for sincerity.

Charles Dickens

#28. Why would you ever premedicate honesty? To hesitate is to overthink how you feel. A blurted out answer is usually the most genuine.

Shannon L. Alder

#29. She was afraid she'd have no hope at all of recognizing the drop without the wagon and boxes there. She would have to get Gawyn to show it to her,

Connie Willis

#30. The most powerful lessons occur where studies intersect with real life.

Oliver DeMille

#31. Praise and worship is such a powerful device is able to dismantle every shackle and its able to breakdown every wall.

Euginia Herlihy

#32. To be a good manager of people requires both fairness and bluntness.

James Cook

#33. He grinned. "Busted. I'm a monster. Jev is my deceptively harmless - and shockingly handsome - alter ego."
"And I'm on top of it," she announced with witty triumph.
"Is that a Freudian slip?"
His bluntness caught her off guard. A self-conscious blush rose in her face.

Becca Fitzpatrick