Pete Waterman Quotes

Truth is a rough, honest, helter-skelter terrier that none like to see brought into their drawing rooms.

Honesty is the cruelest game of all, because not only can you hurt someone - and hurt them to the bone - you can feel self-righteous about it at the same time.

I am not cruel, only truthful.

It frightened people when you were honest; it shocked them.

If we look too closely at many historical figures, we won't like what we see.

I never gave anybody hell! I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.

There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.

A truth that disheartens because it is true is of more value than the most stimulating of falsehoods.

Truth has rough flavours if we bite it through.

Say what is true, although what may be bitter and displeasing to people.

Sometimes ‘tis necessary to be cruel in order to be kind.

When things need shaking up, there usually isn’t a nice way of doing it. A good result might be worth a hurtful word.

My problem is being brutally honest. People don't like that.

I just tell the truth. Some people don't like it. Some people do.

I just feel like sometimes people don't want to hear the truth. It's hard when you hear the truth. People want to hear what they want to hear. Sometimes I have a hard time with that because I'm very honest.

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

I rap about fighting back. I make it uncomfortable by putting details to it. It might not have been politically correct but I've reached somebody; They relating to me. They relate to the brutal honesty in the rap.

Upon my word, I think the truth is the hardest missile one can be pelted with.

Know that diamonds and roses are as uncomfortable when they tumble from one's lips as toads and frogs: colder, too, and sharper, and they cut.

I want you to be honest with me. Even if it hurts. Although I would prefer for it not to hurt.

Some think that it is cruel or brutal to remove the bottom 10 percent of our people. It isn't. It's just the opposite. What I think is brutal and "false kindness" is keeping people around who aren't going to grow and prosper. There's no cruelty like waiting and telling people late into their careers that they don't belong - just when the options are limited and they're putting their children through college or paying off big mortgages.

In my experience tact is usually worse than the brutalities of truth.

I gave them all the truth and none of the honesty.

Why is it that the most important stuff to listen to is almost always the stuff we don't want to hear?

Truth, like surgery, may hurt, but it cures.