Blunt Speech Quotes

I always start out saying exactly what everybody looks like. I don't know why.

Euphemisms are not, as many young people think, useless verbiage for that which can and should be said bluntly; they are like secret agents on a delicate mission, they must airily pass by a stinking mess with barely so much as a nod of the head, make their point of constructive criticism and continue on in calm forbearance. Euphemisms are unpleasant truths wearing diplomatic cologne.

I always say the things you're not supposed to.

Piss off Satan and don't take me for dumber than I look.

There's a certain edge about cruelty. If you're honest about it, most people wince, but say it had to be said.

There is only one Donald Trump, but people make comparisons because I'm blunt.

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 think that if you use the so-called "strong words" you'll get your point across faster and you can save a lot of beating around the bush. Why are people afraid of words? Sometimes the dumbest thing that gets said makes the point for you.

I don't believe in pulling punches or being judicious, as the standard in literary criticism or academic musicology.

I'm known among my friends for saying things I probably shouldn't sometimes, but I have to get things out in the air.

Her virtue was that she said what she thought, her vice that what she thought didn't amount to much.

I call a spade a spade.

I think if you're 50 you just ruddy say it.

The faster you blurt, the more swiftly you write, the more honest you are.

We like a man to come right out and say what he thinks - if we agree with him.

Rude am I in my speech, And little blessed with the soft phrase of peace.

Toddlers are couthless. Lord. They are so couth-deficient. They'll tell you, 'Those shoes look like my nightmares' without a second thought because your feelings don't matter to them.