Plain Speaking Quotes

All we know about Jesus is what someone else wrote down... so really one should say, "Here is what someone wrote down that they said Jesus said..." this isn't uncertainty on purpose, just plain speaking.

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

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

With the poetry of plain speaking, Shannon Hitchcock recreates the daily drama of a vanished world.

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

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.

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.