"Outspokenness" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... of speech, and all the haughtiness of her proud folly merits my outspokenness! But since you give me leave, I will go ...
— The Learned Women • Moliere (Poquelin)
... happiness I knew there was little chance of his getting. If I were a man and had to live in the house with a female who shut her mouth tight every time she got mad and was continually hurt and always sensitive, there would likely be in that house battle, murder, or sudden death. Any kind of outspokenness is better to be endured ...
— Kitty Canary • Kate Langley Bosher
... of enthusiasm in his tone chilled the girl's heart. But she did not protest. In these days, in spite of occasional outspokenness she was still a humble little girl worshipping her brilliant companion ...
— The Fortunate Youth • William J. Locke
... remediable, disasters are caused by a timid reticence about the strongest force that animates the world, the force of reproduction. Whitman felt, and truly felt, that reason and sentiment have outrun discretion. It may be asked, indeed, how this terror of all outspokenness has developed in the human race, so that parents cannot bear to speak to their children about an experience which they will be certain to make acquaintance with in some far more violent and base form. Does this shrinking delicacy, this sacred ...
— Escape and Other Essays • Arthur Christopher Benson |
