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There is no wisdom like frankness.

They are rather helplessly frank, but not, I hope, with all their rather helpless frankness, offensively frank.

My dream of politics all my life has been that it is the common business, that it is something we owe to each other to understand and discuss with absolute frankness.

Woodrow Wilson

He had a certain frankness and generosity, qualities indeed which turn to a man's ruin, unless tempered with discretion.

Tacitus

Gallop's frankness has set a new standard in Australia about these issues. It shows that depression can affect anyone at all, no matter what walk of life you are from.

Ian Hickie

Although our Pakistani friends continue to assure us of their cooperation, we have not seen the necessary degree of cooperation and frankness that is required to settle this issue and to move forward,

Javad Zarif

All cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness.

Tennessee Williams

Life is too short to be little. Man is never so manly as when he feels deeply, acts boldly, and expresses himself with frankness and with fervor.

Benjamin Disraeli

The love of their country is with them only a mode of flattering its master; as soon as they think that master can no longer hear, they speak of everything with a frankness which is the more startling because those who listen to it become responsible.

Marquis De Custine

We appreciate frankness from those who like us. Frankness from others is called insolence.

Andre Maurois

Frankness is a jewel; only the young can afford it.

Mark Twain

You must study to be frank with the world: frankness is the child of honesty and courage. Say just what you mean to do on every occasion, and take it for granted that you mean to do right.

Robert E Lee

I encountered among my comrades the most varied human traits, from frankness to reserve, from goodness, uprightness and kindness, to brutality and baseness.

Georg Brandes

Frankness, aside from the pain it causes, is always in bad taste.

Unknown

If you wish to preserve your secret, wrap it up in frankness.

Alexander Smith

Frankness is a jewel; only the young can afford it

Mark Twain