Famous quotes containing the words excessive and/or candour:
“Through excessive exertion they put together some free time, and afterwards have no idea what to do with it except to count the hours until theyve passed.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (18441900)
“To be candid, in Middlemarch phraseology, meant, to use an early opportunity of letting your friends know that you did not take a cheerful view of their capacity, their conduct, or their position; and a robust candour never waited to be asked for its opinion.”
—George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian)