The American bards shall be marked for generosity and affection and for encouraging competitors… . The great poets are also to be known by the absence in them of tricks and by the justification of perfect personal candor… . How beautiful is cando...
There is no diplomacy like candor.
Innocence in genius, and candor in power, are both noble qualities.
We expect candor and transparency from the president, from the administration.
Candor is a compliment; it implies equality. It's how true friends talk.
Candor and generosity, unless tempered by due moderation, leads to ruin.
Candor is a proof of both a just frame of mind, and of a good tone of breeding. It is a quality that belongs equally to the honest man and to the gentleman.
All faults may be forgiven of him who has perfect candor.
Entire generations of Americans have come of age since the ancient time when the president's power was constrained by a duty of candor to the American people.
In all my public and private acts as your president, I expect to follow my instincts of openness and candor with full confidence that honesty is always the best policy in the end.
Shareholder meetings are not usually the occasion for utter candor - or for that matter, arch sarcasm - by chief executives.
Candor and accountability in a democracy is very important. Hypocrisy has no place.
If modesty and candor are necessary to an author in his judgment of his own works, no less are they in his reader.
I have ventured to write more intimately about my personal life than is customary for a member of the Supreme Court, and with that candor comes a measure of vulnerability.
I have a reputation for speaking my mind. I like to think my candor and bluntness will give you the answers.
I kind of cherish at least the idea of Midwestern candor and openness. But I couldn't live there.
In requiring this candor and simplicity of mind in those who would investigate the truth of our religion, Christianity demands nothing more than is readily conceded to every branch of human science.
There should be a readiness, on our part, to investigate with candor to follow the truth wherever it may lead us, and to submit, without reserve or objection, to all the teachings of this religion, if it be found to be of divine origin.
Editors and their authors seldom form deep friendships for the same reason that psychiatrists and their patients keep their distance: The relationship requires candor that mixes poorly with intimacy.
There was altogether too much candor in married life; it was an indelicate modern idea, and frequently led to upsets in a household, if not divorce...
It is always well to accept your own shortcomings with candor but to regard those of your friends with polite incredulity.
