Candid

Famous quotes containing the word candid:

    Give me th’ avowed, th’ erect, the manly foe,
    Bold I can meet—perhaps may turn his blow;
    But of all plagues, good Heav’n, thy wrath can send,
    Save, save, oh! save me from the Candid Friend.
    George Canning (1770–1827)

    My father and I were always on the most distant terms when I was a boy—a sort of armed neutrality, so to speak. At irregular intervals this neutrality was broken, and suffering ensued; but I will be candid enough to say that the breaking and the suffering were always divided up with strict impartiality between us—which is to say, my father did the breaking, and I did the suffering.
    Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)

    I look around me and nowhere do I see a stamp of disapproval with which nature marked a woman’s candid brow.
    Franz Grillparzer (1791–1872)