Quotes About Plain Speaking

#1. I am plain-speaking out of both sides of my mouth.

Mason Cooley

#2. This will involve audacity, clarity and plain speaking; trying to straighten my accounts with the world.

Oliver Sacks

#3. Any sort of plain speaking is better than the nauseous sham good fellowship our democratic public men get up for shop use.

George Bernard Shaw

#4. With the poetry of plain speaking, Shannon Hitchcock recreates the daily drama of a vanished world.

Richard Peck

#5. Last days, last things, loom on: I write / to astonish myself. So much for all / plain speaking...

Geoffrey Hill

#6. Though I normally approve of plain speaking, as you know, I would suggest that as part of your good behavior, you refer to the king as 'his grace' or even simply 'the king' instead of 'that creature,' by the way.

Susan Higginbotham

#7. We are not anti-American. we do not dislike Americans though we abhor American imperialism in all its manifestations. But then, so do many Americans. Many of them have said that even more forthrightly than we have, and many of them have suffered more than any of us for their plain speaking.

Tommy Douglas

#8. When I was a child, to call someone 'black' was an insult, a curse word, something that made you fight.
But to me it contains all of the history of oppression and resistance, of being close to the soil and the sky, of plain speaking. Of The Journey.

Bonnie Greer

#9. I am a Ford, not a Lincoln. My addresses will never be as eloquent as Mr. Lincoln's. But I will do my very best to equal his brevity and his plain speaking.

Gerald R. Ford

#10. Racing is what I live for, and it makes my world go around. Having said that, without the support of the diabetes community, I may not have gotten back into the race car after my diagnosis in October 2007.

Charlie Kimball

#11. If we love God, do His will, and fear His judgment more than men's, we will have self-esteem.

Ezra Taft Benson

#12. The African specialist Nahid Toubia puts it plain [when speaking of female genital mutilation]: In a man it would range from amoutation of most of the penis, to removal of all the penis, its roots of soft tissue and part of the scrotal skin.

Eve Ensler

#13. Being anti-rhetoric is, finally, just another rhetorical strategy. Rhetoric is what the other guy is doing - whereas you, you're just speaking the plain truth as you see it.

Sam Leith

#14. It behooves us then to humble ourselves before the offended Power to confess our national sins and to pray for clemency and forgiveness ...

Abraham Lincoln

#15. I stand and listen to people speaking french in the stores and in the street. It's such a pert, crisp language, elegant as ruffling taffeta.

Belva Plain

#16. Environmental degradation is an iatrogenic disease induced by economic physicians who treat the basic malady of unlimited wants by prescribing unlimited growth ... Yet one certainly does not cure a treatment-induced disease by increasing the treatment dosage.

Herman E. Daly

#17. I am so far from thinking the maxims of Confucius and Jesus Christ to differ, that I think the plain and simple maxims of the former, will help to illustrate the more obscure ones of the latter, accommodated to the then way of speaking.

Matthew Tindal

#18. This struck me as something of a double bind. Speak and your possession of an opinion was plain, clear to anyone. Refrain from speaking and still this was proof of an opinion. If Captain Rubran were to say, Truly, I have no opinion on the matter, would that merely be another proof she had one?

Ann Leckie

#19. I grew up loving David Letterman and Pee-wee Herman, but as far as live performance comedy, all I knew were the Jerry Seinfeld-type comedians of the world, and that's what I thought live performance comedy was all about.

Scott Aukerman

#20. Strictly speaking, there is but one real evil: I mean acute pain. All other complaints are so considerably diminished by time that it is plain the grief is owing to our passion, since the sensation of it vanishes when that is over.

Mary Wortley Montagu

#21. #3: Do Whatever the Hell You Want for Once Instead of What You Think You Should Do.

Jessica Sorensen