Quotes About Frankness

#1. A marriage based on full confidence, based on complete and unqualified frankness on both sides; they are not keeping anything back; there's no deception underneath it all. If I might so put it, it's an agreement for the mutual forgiveness of sin.

Henrik Ibsen

#2. 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

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

Leo Tolstoy

#4. 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

#5. 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

#6. 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

#7. 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

#8. 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

#9. A recluse, like Hepzibah, usually displays remarkable frankness, and at least temporary affability, on being absolutely cornered, and brought to the point of personal intercourse; like the angel whom Jacob wrestled with, she is ready to bless you when once overcome.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

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

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#11. Adhere To - Faith, Unity, Sacrifice. Avoid - Back-biting, Falsehood and Crookedness. Admire - Frankness, Honesty, and Large-heartedness. Control - Tongue, Temper, and Tossing of the mind. Cultivate - Cosmic Love, Forgiveness and Patience. Hate - Lust, Anger, and Pride.

Sivananda

#12. The mutual preference of frankness over flattery is what leads to iron sharpening iron.

Torry Martin

#13. Wherever a tension needed the solvent of good-will, or friction the oil of benevolence; wherever suspicion needed the antidote of frankness, or wounded pride the disinfectant of a hearty laugh - there Taft was sent.

Doris Kearns Goodwin

#14. Isn't beer the holy libation of sincerity? the potion that dispels all hypocrisy, any charade of fine manners? the drink that does nothing worse than incite its fans to urinate in all innocence, to gain weight in all frankness?

Milan Kundera

#15. The Germans love frankness and honesty. It is so convenient to be frank and honest. This confidingness, this complacence, this showing the cards of German honesty, is probably the most dangerous and most successful disguise which the German is up to nowadays.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#16. 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

#17. You have to experience it, in order to speak about it with authority. Joseph Wambaugh says it with an air of that same authenticity, in his stories of contemporary Police activities, and, with a disarming tongue in cheek, frankness.

Joseph Wambaugh

#18. Flaubert prided himself on his frankness; it was indeed brutal.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Rick Warren

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

Anne Bronte

#21. It is humiliating to have to confess that this conceit of Peter was one of his most fascinating qualities. To put it with brutal frankness, there never was a cockier boy.

J.M. Barrie

#22. Carefree, peaceful ... those words reminds me of you. Matt says without hesitation, surprising me with his frankness.

Cat Patrick

#23. She was rather handsome than beautiful. Her face was captivating by reason of a certain frankness of expression and a contradictory subtle play of features.

Kate Chopin

#24. She wondered why her normal desire to say little, to hold things closed, broke down before him, why she felt compelled to simple frankness, such as she could offer no one else.

Ayn Rand

#25. frankness of her character in her reply to the letter which announced its arrangement, she sent him language so very abusive, especially of Elizabeth, that for some time all intercourse

Jane Austen

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

Helen Rowland

#27. I consider it a mutual duty, that we owe to each other, to communicate in a spirit of the utmost frankness and candor. Let it ever be done with unlocked hearts.

Charles Frazier

#28. The fact is, the Time Traveller was one of those men who are too clever to be believed: you never felt that you saw all round him; you always suspected some subtle reserve, some ingenuity in ambush, behind his lucid frankness.

H.G.Wells

#29. 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

#30. 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

#31. Frankness is usually a euphemism for rudeness.

Muriel Spark

#32. 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

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

Morris L. Ernst

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

C.S. Lewis

#35. 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

#36. 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

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

Abel Hermant

#38. 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

#39. 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

#40. 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

#41. 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

#42. 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

#43. 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

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

Hilary Mantel

#45. Winter walks up and down the town swinging his censer, but no smoke or sweetness comes from it, only the sour, metallic frankness of salt and snow.

Mary Oliver

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

Kevin Smith

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

Kent M. Keith

#48. 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

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

Alexander Smith

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

Alexander Von Humboldt

#51. 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

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

Mark Twain

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

Robert E.Lee

#54. There is no wisdom like frankness.

Benjamin Disraeli

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

Tennessee Williams

#56. 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

#57. 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

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

Andre Maurois

#59. 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

#60. 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

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

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

Samuel Johnson

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

Alfred Alcorn