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Gracious to all, to none subservient,
Without offence he spake the word he meant.—T. B. ALDRICH, The Sisters' Tragedy
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Always be ready to speak your mind, and a base man will avoid you.—BLAKE, Proverbs of Hell
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If people would dare to speak to one another unreservedly, there would be a good deal less sorrow in the world a hundred years hence.—SAMUEL BUTLER, The Way of All Flesh
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I was so free with him as not to mince the matter.—CERVANTES, Don Quixote
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Candor is the brightest gem of criticism.—DISRAELI
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Frankness invites frankness.—EMERSON, Essays
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I can promise to be candid, though I may not be impartial.—GOETHE
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Speak out, hide not thy thoughts.—HOMER, Iliad
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I cannot say one thing and mean another.—LONGFELLOW, Giles Corey
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I call a fig a fig, a spade a spade.—MENANDER
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Plain-dealing is a jewel, and he that useth it shall die a beggar.—HENRY PORTER, Two Angry Women of Abington
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Call a spade a spade.—Proverb
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Just at the age 'twixt boy and youth,
When thought is speech, and speech is truth.—SCOTT, Marmion
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His heart's his mouth : What his breast forges, that his tongue must vent.—SHAKESPEARE, Coriolanus
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He was wont to speak plain and to the purpose.—SHAKESPEARE, Much Ado About Nothing
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He speaks home, madam; you may relish him more in the soldier than in the scholar.—SHAKESPEARE, Othello
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Take note, take note, O world!
To be direct and honest is not safe.—SHAKESPEARE, Othello
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Speak frankly as the wind.—SHAKESPEARE, Troilus and Cressida
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Candor and generosity, unless tempered by due moderation, lead to
ruin.—TACITUS, History
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I think it good plain English, without fraud,
To call a spade a spade, a bawd a bawd.—JOHN TAYLOR, A Kicksey Winsey
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If he persists in saying to me what he likes, he shall hear what he
does not like.—TERENCE, Andria
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It is great and manly to disdain disguise; it shows our spirit, and proves our strength.—EDWARD YOUNG
