Quotes by Frankness There is no wisdom like frankness. Benjamin Disraeli frankness The 'frankness' of people sunk below shame is a very cheap frankness. C. S. Lewis frankness shame people He that openly tells, his friends all that he thinks of them, must expect that they will secretly tell his enemies much that they do not think of him. Charles Caleb Colton frankness enemy thinking We are franker towards others than towards ourselves. Friedrich Nietzsche frankness honesty Frankness is a jewel; only the young can afford it. Mark Twain frankness jewels young Frankness is usually a euphemism for rudeness. Muriel Spark euphemism frankness rudeness