Muriel Spark Quotes

I like rudeness a great deal better than flattery.

I don't believe in putting on airs. I call it like I see it.

I am a straight talker. I am not politically correct or diplomatic.

I think brutal honesty is extremely important. Don't be afraid of being up-front about your feelings and your life.

I have the necessary lack of tact.

Tell it like it is.

I have a reputation for being a straight-talker.

Well, I think sometimes I am brutally honest.

I don't see the reason for sugar coating anything.

I'm too direct.

I say things directly and to the point because I don't know anything else.

I'm really straightforward. I'm going to tell you how it is. I'm going to speak my mind.

You know me: I'm always down to be brutally honest.

I'm brutally honest with people.

I'm just straightforward.

I don't like to beat around the bush.

I am very blunt, and people don't like it.

I am not a person who will mince words.

I'm not a beat around the bush kind of guy.

I have a tough time beating around the bush and just saying something you want to hear. I kind of say it how it is, even if I don't realize that's maybe not what I should say at the moment.

Straight-forwardness, without the rules of propriety, becomes rudeness.

I like to be honest, and after all these years I can't be bothered being politically correct.

Being that frank and being that open, there's more praise than there is negativity. It's just the negativity gets printed because you're straight and f - ing rude. It's not rude, it's just getting straight to the point.

Whenever one has anything unpleasant to say, one should always be quite candid.

I am blunt when I want to be.