Brutal Honesty Quotes

If the truth shall kill them, let them die.

If Attila the Hun were alive today, he'd be a drama critic.

How terribly downright must be the utterances of storms and earthquakes to those accustomed to the soft hypocrisies of society.

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

The first step in making better choices is to simply be brutally honest about your own behavior to yourself. What are the choices you are making? How are you spending your time? What are you neglecting that you shouldn't?

There is more beauty in truth, even if it is a dreadful beauty. The storytellers at the city gate twist life so that it looks sweet to the lazy and the stupid and the weak, and this only strengthens their infirmities and teaches nothing, cures nothing, nor does it let the heart soar.

Because friends have to be brutally honest with each other. I'd feel terrible if I didn't tell you what I was thinking, especially at a time like this

My thing is this; if I'm sick enough to think it, then I'm sick enough to say it.

Your close men friends should be willing to challenge your mediocrity by suggesting a concrete action you can perform that will pop you out of your rut, one way or the other. And you must be willing to offer them your brutal honesty, in the same way, if you are all to grow.

Sometimes honesty can be incredibly messy

The truth is what hurts

One of the most important things one can do in life is to brutally question every single thing you are taught.

Better a cruel truth than a comfortable delusion.

Say the truth even if it may be bitter.

Kids, man, they're way too honest. They're like mini-alcoholics.

you can tell a true war story if it embarrasses you. If you don't care for obscenity, you don't care for the truth; if you don't care for the truth, watch how you vote. Send guys to war, they come home talking dirty.

I promised to run the most open and transparent administration in Britain. That is why, with this brutally honest and unprecedented progress report, I am determined to level with Londoners.

I pride myself on being a jerk, because I'm brutally honest all the time.

One thing, I try to be honest. And what is revealed is often rather hideously unflattering.

write with honesty and don't worry about the feelings of others, because no matter what you say, they'll hate you anyway.

In a way, I don't want to know what's being said in casting offices, because it can get pretty brutal, and I don't want to have to think about the reasons why I don't get one job or do get one job. I can say, 'Oh, my height,' and that'll make me feel better, but I don't know for sure.

I'm a fan of the truth... even if it's painfully hard to accept.

Too much truth is uncouth.

They're only words. You can't be afraid of words that speak the truth, even if it's an unpleasant truth.

We're definitely honest with each other... if your sisters can't tell you that you look ridiculous, who can?