Unvarnished Speech Quotes

My plainness of speech makes people hate me, and what is their hatred but a proof that I am speaking the truth.

I've never been a fan of euphemism.

Trash talk? Smack talk? This is an American term that makes me laugh. I simply speak the truth. I'm an Irish man.

From a young age, I was always very transparent, and that's why the kids' mums didn't like me. I would tell you if I didn't like your beans on toast.

I'm a straightforward person. I think sometimes it comes off the wrong way.

In oratory, affectation must be avoided; it being better for a man by a native and clear eloquence to express himself than by those words which may smell either of the lamp or inkhorn.

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

I think Americans appreciate that my dad's a genuine guy. He's not gonna manicure every little word, and he's not massaging it. He's not running computer analytics to tell you what you want to hear and then do whatever the special interests tell him what they want him to do in the end.

Listen, I'm from Belfast. We're not polite people. And it's language. We're direct.

I'm a plain speaker.