Best Plain Speaking Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“But in this case,” he continues, tracing the line of the plasterwork with one finger, “I feel that there is one cliché that sums up my position so admirably that it would be pure egotism to attempt a more interesting periphrasis. Plain speaking, therefore, there is to be. “There is undoubtedly a strong possibility, notwithstanding the vagaries of contingency and misfortune, that my son might have fallen—or might, we could say, have voluntarily jumped, in accordance with the ethical codes with which he has been brought up—for a play you have made with some success, although, as I am persuaded you would concede, very little originality.” Plain speaking if you’re Henry James, perhaps.”

Humor Relationships Power Misogyny Menace Henry James In Laws Class Difference Class Divide Plain Speaking Circumlocution Jamesian

Book:The Bookstore

Source: The Bookstore

“Any sort of plain speaking is better than the nauseous sham good fellowship our democratic public men get up for shop use.”

Men Use Democratic Get Up Shops Fellowship Plain Speaking

Book:The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Lectures, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more

Source: The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Lectures, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more

“Only friendship which can stand occasional plain speaking is worth having.”

Friendship Occasional Plain Speaking

Book:Between Tears and Laughter

Source: Between Tears and Laughter

“We are not anti-American. We do not dislike Americans though we abhor American imperialism in all its manifestations. But then, so do many Americans. Many of them have said that even more forthrightly than we have, and many of them have suffered more than any of us for their plain speaking.”

Said Manifestation Dislike Imperialism Anti-american American Imperialism Plain Speaking

Author:Tommy Douglas

“I'm a Ford, not a Lincoln. My addresses will never be as eloquent as Mr. Lincoln's. But I will do my very best to equal his brevity and his plain speaking.”

Equal Addresses Eloquent Brevity Plain Speaking

Author:Gerald R. Ford

“I am plain-speaking out of both sides of my mouth.”

Truth Sides Mouths Both Sides Speaking Out Plain Speaking