A Quote by Voltaire

A yawn may not be polite, but at least it is an honest opinion.

Voltaire

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Voltaire
French - Writer
November 21, 1694 - May 30, 1778

If you expect to succeed as a writer, rudeness should be the second-to-least of your concerns. The least of all should be polite society and what it expects. If you intend to write as truthfully as you can, your days as a member of polite society are numbered, anyway.

Stephen King

"Do you want my honest opinion?" People ask. I say, "Yes," for I'm curious. So they give me their honest opinion, And I - well, I'm always furious.

Richard Armour

If you play an audiotape of a yawn to blind people, they'll yawn too.

Malcolm Gladwell

It is my opinion that this day will never come to an end," said Prince, with a yawn that nearly rent him assunder.

Louisa May Alcott

When you're an outsider, you don't have loyalties to anyone, so you can be cruelly honest if need be. The more you get inside, the more you are involved in polite networks of professional coercion that make people less honest.

Molly Crabapple

Teeth of winter, sinking into my flesh, my own clacking against each other like knitting needles, and I wish they'd knit a heavy shawl around my shoulders before widening into a yawn. Why do I always yawn when I'm cold?

Karen Elizabeth Gordon

I give my honest opinion, whether it's right or wrong, but it's an opinion that I'll make.

Paul Pierce

Let's be honest: Everyone has got their opinion. It doesn't mean their opinion is an intelligent one.

Doug Baldwin

I need advice and opinion-honest opinion. I want to get better. Why go around with blinkers on?

Natasha Richardson

However unwillingly a person who has a strong opinion may admit the possibility that his opinion may be false, he ought to be moved by the consideration that, however true it may be, if it is not fully, frequently, and fearlessly discussed, it will be held as a dead dogma, not a living truth.

John Stuart Mill

The mischief of flattery is, not that it persuades any man that he is what he is not, but that it suppresses the influence of honest ambition, by raising an opinion that honour may be gained without the toil of merit.

Samuel Johnson

When you read the book you see that these guys aren't holding any punches. They're straightforward. They're honest. They're giving you their honest opinion.