Too Much Frankness Quotes

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

#2. 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

#3. 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

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

Alexander Smith

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

Alexander Von Humboldt

#6. 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

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

Mark Twain

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

Robert E.Lee

#9. There is no wisdom like frankness.

Benjamin Disraeli

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

Tennessee Williams

#11. 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

#12. 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

#13. 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

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

Andre Maurois

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

Hilary Mantel

#16. Frankness is usually a euphemism for rudeness.

Muriel Spark

#17. 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

#18. 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

#19. 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

#20. 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

#21. 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

#22. 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

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

Abel Hermant

#25. 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

#26. 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

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

C.S. Lewis

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

Morris L. Ernst

#29. 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

#30. 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