Bluntness Quotes

“If you don’t find the right set of eyes to see through your bull, you will always be surrounded by friends that will tell you white lies because they like your company and don’t want to ruin the evening.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“You can find anyone that will tell you what you want to hear, but the only one worth valuing is the one that tells you what you need to learn.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“The secret to your purpose is to find what you feel is important, and not pursue what others would think is important. When you think highly of yourself, me thinking highly of you will never be enough!”
― Shannon L. Alder

“Speaking a painful truth should be done only in love - like wielding a sword with no hilt - it should pain oneself in direct proportion to the amount of force exerted.”
― Criss Jami, Healology

“Often people that tell others they are "extremely polite" when the situation calls for tact and bluntness are not actually polite people. Instead, they hide behind the word “polite” because they have low self esteem or hidden agendas. Sadly, they impolitely confuse the hell out of everyone, send mixed signals, which then makes people question their sanity and motives.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“Why would you ever premedicate honesty? To hesitate is to overthink how you feel. A blurted out answer is usually the most genuine.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“I love her with all my soul. Why, she is a child! She's a child now — a real child. Oh! you know nothing about it at all, I see."

"And are you assured, at the same time, that you love Aglaya too?"

"Yes — yes — oh; yes!"

"How so? Do you want to make out that you love them BOTH?"

"Yes — yes — both! I do!"

"Excuse me, prince, but think what you are saying! Recollect yourself!"

"Without Aglaya — I — I MUST see Aglaya! — I shall die in my sleep very soon — I thought I was dying in my sleep last night. Oh! if Aglaya only knew all — I mean really, REALLY all! Because she must know ALL — that's the first condition towards understanding. Why cannot we ever know all about another, especially when that other has been guilty? But I don't know what I'm talking about — I'm so confused. You pained me so dreadfully. Surely — surely Aglaya has not the same expression now as she had at the moment when she ran away? Oh, yes! I am guilty and I know it — I know it! Probably I am in fault all round — I don't quite know how — but I am in fault, no doubt. There is something else, but I cannot explain it to you, Evgenie Pavlovitch. I have no words; but Aglaya will understand. I have always believed Aglaya will understand — I am assured she will."

"No, prince, she will not. Aglaya loved like a woman, like a human being, not like an abstract spirit. Do you know what, my poor prince? The most probable explanation of the matter is that you never loved either the one or the other in reality.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Idiot

“Rose,” she said, leaning toward me. “I’m going to be blunt with you. I’m not going to give you lectures or demand any explanations. Honestly, since you aren’t my student anymore, I don’t have the right to ask or tell you anything.” It was like what Adrian had said. “You can lecture,” I told her. “I’ve always respected you and want to hear what you have to say.” The ghost of a smile flashed on her face. “All right, here it is. You screwed up.” “Wow. You weren’t kidding about bluntness.”
― Richelle Mead, Blood Promise

“If God didn't want me to cross boundaries, then he wouldn't have made me a writer.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“A person who holds strong convictions might appear inflexible, impolite, or exceptionally obtuse, when they are merely direct.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

“...[F]rom me you shall hear the whole truth; not, I can assure you, gentlemen, in flowery language... decked out with fine words and phrases; no, what you will hear will be a straightforward speech in the first words that occur to me, confident as I am in the justice of my cause; and I do not want any of you to expect anything different.”
― Socrates, Apology, Crito And Phaedo Of Socrates.

“I’ve found that being blunt sometimes makes life easier for everyone”
― Matthew Quick, Boy21

“Since we're all snails riding on the razor's edge, we might as well say it as it is.”
― Peter Tieryas, United States of Japan

“Am I too blunt? If the truth is too hard to swallow, should I feed you soft lies?”
― Edward W. Robertson, The Silver Thief

“Reader, if thou intendest to go any farther, I would entreat thee to stay here a little. If thou art, as many in this pretending age, a sign or title gazer, and comest into books as Cato into the theatre, to go out again, - thou hast had thy entertainment; farewell!”
― John Owen, The Death of Christ

“Well, Captain Smollett? What have you to say?...All ship-shape and seaworthy?'

'Well, sir,' said the captain, 'better speak plain, I believe, even at the risk of offence. I don't like this cruise; I don't like the men; and I don't like my officer. That's short and sweet.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island

“You don't mince words."
"Just garlic.”
― Joan Bauer

“With my sometimes blunt indecent vocabulary & very vivid imagination, I wonder if I should be writing "other" kinds of content.”
― April Mae Monterrosa

“A mirror is fragile but not afraid of showing the truth.”
― Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words

“It is rather pitiful how obvious it is, and usually how simple it can be, for one to be blunt and critical, all the while fooling oneself into thinking that it makes him look sharp and analytical.”
― Criss Jami

“Hate me a little if you will. But I think you are one of those who would rather look truth in the face than live in a fool’s paradise; and you might not have lived in it so very long.”
― Agatha Christie

“Euphemisms are used by individuals who try so hard to mince words or aren’t bold enough to say the truth or sound outrageous.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, The Book of Maxims, Poems and Anecdotes

“You see, humans shrunk themselves when talking. Traditionally, one must succumb to the correspondence of politeness and must be careful not to step over anyone’s toes. This meant nodding your head at rather unthoughtful, sporadic moments, raising your voice an octave, and repeating the last few words a person said to assure them that you were respectfully listening. Everyone shrunk, but she kept. If she did not want to listen, Soriah would tell you. If she didn’t know what you were saying, she’d stop you and ask you to repeat yourself. Many people didn’t like that. It was a difficult, naked territory to be in—to be told by someone they weren’t listening to you, but she was a conversational nudist. Soriah withstood the awkwardness of confrontation, the nervousness of acknowledgment, and lived in it, and almost enjoyed it. Even if you tried, no preparation could ever prepare you in a conversation with her. She was point-blank. Her beauty was that of a certain wildness and her choice of conversation was just as predictable as the heartbeat in your chest in which she too controlled.”
― Karl Kristian Flores, The Goodbye Song

“Most people want to be told the truth … most of the time.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“He faced Karsa again. ‘You will stay this night at the Inn of the Wood?’
‘I shall, although it is not made of wood, and so it should be called Inn of the Brick.”
― Steven Erikson, The Bonehunters

“I'm sitting in my home office wearing a bathrobe. The same way I'm not going to start wearing ties, I'm also not going to buy into the fake politeness, the lying, the office politics and backstabbing, the passive aggressiveness, and the buzzwords.”
― Linus Torvalds

“What a vibe! Do you wanna walk with me? I’m headed this way.”
“No,” said Andrei. “But thank you.”
David shifted his arms and laughed. He did not expect rejection. David considered himself friendly and a young man of great energy and there could be no possible reason why anybody should deny his invitation.
“Oh, why not?”
“David...” Andrei started on an effortless admission. The comet knew exactly how he felt and did not measure his blow. It was fair this way, so he locked his eyes kindly on David and shared: “I do not want to walk with you. There’s nothing wrong with that. We don’t need to be friends. And this is okay.”
“Oh. Did I...say something bad earlier?”
“Mate, it’s just who you are. And who I am. I don’t want to pretend that it’s pleasant to be with you.”
“Dude, that really hurts me that you said that, Andrei.”
“What can we do, honestly, David? Lie instead? That’s how it is. It can’t be changed. It’s nothing on you—just the both of us combined Not every person we meet is right for us. If we treat everyone like friends, nothing is earned, you know what I mean?”
“Alright, dude. Whatever. That’s totally your choice, so all good. But that literally makes no sense, so.”
Andrei looked down the road, which he owed, and not David, and so withdrew.
“Then let me make no sense. Cheers. Good luck with everything.”
― Karl Kristian Flores, A Happy Ghost

“What a vibe! Do you wanna walk with me? I’m headed this way.”
“No,” said Andrei. “But thank you.”
David shifted his arms and laughed. He did not expect rejection. David considered himself friendly and a young man of great energy and there could be no possible reason why anybody should deny his invitation.
“Oh, why not?”
“David...” Andrei started on an effortless admission. The comet knew exactly how he felt and did not measure his blow. It was fair this way, so he locked his eyes kindly on David and shared: “I do not want to walk with you. There’s nothing wrong with that. We don’t need to be friends. And this is okay.”
“Oh. Did I...say something bad earlier?”
“Mate, it’s just who you are. And who I am. I don’t want to pretend that it’s pleasant to be with you.”
“Dude, that really hurts me that you said that, Andrei.”
“What can we do, honestly, David? Lie instead? That’s how it is. It can’t be changed. It’s nothing on you—just the both of us combined. Not every person we meet is right for us. If we treat everyone like friends, nothing is earned, you know what I mean?”
“Alright, dude. Whatever. That’s totally your choice, so all good. But that literally makes no sense, so.”
Andrei looked down the road, which he owed, and not David, and so withdrew.
“Then let me make no sense. Cheers. Good luck with everything.”
― Karl Kristian Flores, A Happy Ghost

“Are you going to punish me with pleasure?” he asked quietly. “Because you can. You can bring me to my knees, Eva.”
― Sylvia Day, Bared to You

“I think your stepmother Cora is a double-faced bitch if ever I knew one. Sorry, Ellie, perhaps I oughtn't to say that.”
― Agatha Christie, Endless Night