blunt truth Quotes

I call a fig a fig, a spade a spade.

No excuses. No explanations.

Geese are but Geese tho' we may think 'em Swans; and Truth will be Truth tho' it sometimes prove mortifying and distasteful.

If I think something's a waste of time or inappropriate I don't wait to point it out. I say it right away. It's real time. So you might hear me say 'That's the dumbest idea I have ever heard' many times during a meeting.

I told you, God is not coy. He's more likely to hit you across the forehead with a two-by-four than whisper in your ear

They said, “You are a savage and dangerous woman.” I am speaking the truth. And the truth is savage and dangerous.

I love being on Aussie breakfast TV. They like people who speak their mind and tell it like it is.

The modern mind dislikes gold because it blurts out unpleasant truths.

I believe in saying the truth, coming out with it cold, shocking if necessary, not disguising it.

If a man didn't make sense, the Scotch felt it was misplaced politeness to try to keep him from knowing it. Better that he be aware of his reputation, for this would encourage reticence which goes well with stupidity.

True friends stab you in the front.

I call a spade a spade. If you're doing things the wrong way, I'm going to let you know regardless if you're the max-contract guy on the team or the two-way guy on the team.

Mom spent the time that she was supposed to be a kid actully raising children, her younger brother and younger sister. She was tough as nails and did not suffer fools at all. And the truth was she could not afford to. She spoke the truth, bluntly, directly, and without much varnish. I am her son.

The most terrible of motives and the most unanswerable of responses: Because.

I don't care if you're obscene, filthy, horrendous -- as long as you're honest.

You're betraying your whole life if you don't say what you think - and you don't say it honestly and bluntly.

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

Most of the time, the truth is ugly and in your face! My observational brand of humor is very much all in your face!

If you want real truth, I'll tell you real truth, even though I know a lot of people aren't gonna like it.

No. Harsh truth was better than comfortable lies. It had to be.

Danger lies in the writer becoming the victim of his own exaggeration, losing the exact notion of sincerity, and in the end coming to despise truth itself as something too cold, too blunt for his purpose -- as, in fact, not good enough for his insistent emotion. From laughter and tears the descent is easy to sniveling and giggles.