Quotes about frankness

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Frank and explicit--that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and confuse the minds of others.

— Benjamin Disraeli

We are franker towards others than towards ourselves.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

People who talk much say nothing.

— Source Unknown

The great consolation in life is to say what one thinks.

— Voltaire

All faults may be forgiven of him who has perfect candor.

— Walt Whitman

All cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness.

— Tennessee Williams

I always tell it like it is" is the long way of saying, "I'm a jerk.

— Michael Lipsey