Plain Dealing

Famous quotes containing the words plain dealing, plain and/or dealing:

    Take back the beauty and wit you bestow upon me; leave me my own mediocrity of agreeableness and genius, but leave me also my sincerity, my constancy, and my plain dealing; ‘tis all I have to recommend me to the esteem either of others or myself.
    Mary Wortley, Lady Montagu (1689–1762)

    No one in this world, so far as I know ... has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people.
    —H.L. (Henry Lewis)

    Always carry it in thy mind, and act upon it, as a sure maxim: “That women are timid:” And ‘tis well they are—else there would be no dealing with them.
    Laurence Sterne (1713–1768)