Outspokenness Quotes

“If you're going to say what you want to say, you're going to hear what you don't want to hear.”
― Roberto Bolaño, The Insufferable Gaucho

“People who keep their feelings to themselves tend not to know, after a while, what their feelings are.”
― Paul Berman

“You better not turn out to be an asshole,” she says quietly.

“And you better be done with that guy in Italy,” I reply.”
― Colleen Hoover, Finding Cinderella

“I’m too outspoken for most people, they think you’re rude if you tell the truth. ‘Punk’ was the only time I fitted in. Just one tiny sliver of time where it was acceptable to say what you thought.”
― Viv Albertine, Clothes, Clothes, Clothes. Music, Music, Music. Boys, Boys, Boys

“It's funny how, when you really want to say something bitchy and cutting to someone who's been bitchy to you, you can't think of anything till afterwards. When there's no real call for it, you come suddenly out with a piece of 9-carat bitchery that shakes even you.”
― Lynne Reid Banks

“I'm determined that I won't give up on my dreams for anything. I have evolved in these years. Learned and outgrown a lot many things including the unrealistic expectations of my family,fake relationships,society's criticism,surpassed people who are intimidated by my outspoken nature, Faux friends and especially the people who disappear in dark whenever they think its easier for them to do so. I have grown over stupid and useless conversations. The insecurity and the feeling of self doubt. I have never been less burdened.”
― Parul Wadhwa, The Masquerade

“Comedy too can sometimes discern what is right. I shall not please, but I shall say what is true.”
― Aristophanes, The Acharnians

“In principle I thought highly of the outspokenness of Greeks compared with English hypocrisy. When I was on the receiving end I found it bloody rude.”
― John Mole, It's All Greek to Me!: A Tale of a Mad Dog and an Englishman, Ruins, Retsina--and Real Greeks

“Better is the outspoken who exposes the truth than the meek who hides skeleton.”
― Jorge P. Guerrero