Unvarnished Truth Quotes

My plainness of speech makes people hate me, and what is their hatred but a proof that I am speaking the truth.

You didn’t elect me to tell you what you wanted to hear. You elected me to tell you the truth.

I'm not a beat around the bush kind of guy.

I prefer doing interviews where people don't have to interpret what you say. I'm going to be real honest.

If you don't care for obscenity, you don't care for the truth.

There are a lot of people who think our job is to reassure the public every night that their home, their community and their nation is safe. I don't subscribe to that at all. I subscribe to leaving people with essentially … a rough draft of history. Some days it's reassuring, some days it's absolutely destructive.

When you look at my campaign, I don't go around sugarcoating things.

The truth--a hideous spectacle!

I'm too direct.

The truth is not delicate and it does not suffer from denial—the truth only dies when true stories are untold.

Truth is not so threadbare as speech, because fewer people can make use of it.

There is more beauty in truth, even if it is a dreadful beauty. The storytellers at the city gate twist life so that it looks sweet to the lazy and the stupid and the weak, and this only strengthens their infirmities and teaches nothing, cures nothing, nor does it let the heart soar.

I know that some people shy away from what I say. They think it is too blunt, but when you don't give people that, they feel like you are being fake and you're not telling the truth. So it's like, you want me to tell the truth, but when I do, it's too much for you.

'Zakhm' has no political agenda. But, it certainly says things as they are.

The naked truth is always better than the best-dressed lie.

I don't like to read things that people write about me. I'd rather read what kids have to say about me because it's not their profession to do that.

I have a reputation for being a straight-talker.

This was not a fearie tale. This was not the movies. This was life. It hurt more. It was excruciating. It was excruciatingly beautiful.

Geese are but Geese tho' we may think 'em Swans; and Truth will be Truth tho' it sometimes prove mortifying and distasteful.

You don't have to sort of enhance reality. There is nothing stranger than truth.

Sometimes honesty can be incredibly messy

TRUTHFUL, adj. Dumb and illiterate.

It's a violent world we live in. I don't agree with trying to hide that or cover it up.

Say the truth even if it may be bitter.

I never see myself as writing satire. I think I write about people as they really are, without making them better or worse.