Blunt Quotes

Men of genius are not quick judges of character. Deep thinking and high imagining blunt that trivial instinct by which you and I size people up.

I guess I don't like the people in politics very much, to be blunt.

Excellent, there's nothing quite like a blunt object to reinforce proper administration ethics.

I think we need one recognized, respected public figure to make a tough, blunt statement on just what Reagan's record is and what he might do to the country, let alone the Republican Party before Christmas.

About the use of language: it is impossible to sharpen a pencil with a blunt axe. It is equally vain to try to do it with ten blunt axes instead.

One of the truest tests of integrity is its blunt refusal to be compromised.

I was the first Blunt ever elected to anything.

Fill your bowl to the brim and it will spill. Keep sharpening your knife and it will blunt.

Comedy has to be done en clair. You can't blunt the edge of wit or the point of satire with obscurity. Try to imagine a famous witty saying that is not immediately clear.

I'm gonna be blunt and plain, if one ever looks at me like that I'm gonna kill him and tell God he died.

Chekhov - shall I be blunt? - is the greatest short story writer who ever lived.

How blunt are all the arrows of thy quiver in comparison with those of guilt.

Michael is a funny character, for whom I have a great deal of affection. He sat across his desk and seemed to be a bit of a blunt fellow. We began talking about the characters and he opened up about his vision.

A blunt statement can be as false as any other.

Justice and truth are too such subtle points that our tools are too blunt to touch them accurately.

If I were to make public these tapes, containing blunt and candid remarks on many different subjects, the confidentiality of the office of the president would always be suspect.

Jazz is not something that can be defined through blunt instruments. It is much more poetic than that.

I wanted to take up music, so my father bought me a blunt instrument. He told me to knock myself out.

Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.

Australians are pretty blunt and we say things how they really are.

Health care costs blunt the competitive edge of American entrepreneurs, from the auto industry to internet start-ups.

Great literature should do some good to the reader: must quicken his perception though dull, and sharpen his discrimination though blunt, and mellow the rawness of his personal opinions.

Don't confuse being stimulating with being blunt.

A multitude of causes unknown to former times are now acting with a combined force to blunt the discriminating powers of the mind, and unfitting it for all voluntary exertion to reduce it to a state of almost savage torpor.

'Tis not enough your counsel still be true; Blunt truths more mischief than nice falsehoods do.