Quotes About Bluntness

#1. 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

#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. 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

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

James Cook

#5. 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

#6. 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

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

Nina Lane

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

Neel Mukherjee

#9. 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

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

John O. Brennan

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

Mia Sheridan

#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. 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

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

Brooke Shields

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

Euginia Herlihy

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

Oliver DeMille

#17. 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

#18. 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

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

Joan Bauer

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

William Congreve

#21. Nothing that is so, is so.

William Shakespeare

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

Matthew Quick

#23. 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

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

Alpha Jan

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

Shannon L. Alder

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

Baron De Montesquieu

#27. 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

#28. 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

#29. 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

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

Edward W. Robertson

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

Kilroy J. Oldster

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

Peter Tieryas

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

April Mae Monterrosa