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Bluntness: Quotations from Shakespearian Quotations

This is some fellow, Who, having been prais'd for bluntness, doth affect A saucy roughness; and constrains the garb Quite from his nature. He can't flatter, he!- An honest man and plain, he must speak truth: An they will take it, so; if not, he's plain. This kind of knaves I know, which in this plainness, Harbour more craft, and more corrupter ends Than twenty silly ducking observants,— K. L. ii. 2

That stretch their duties nicely. I am no orator as Brutus is: But, as you know me all, a plain blunt man, That love my friend; and that they know full well That gave me public leave to speak of him. For I have neither wit, nor words, nor worth, Action, nor utterance, nor the power of speech, To stir men's blood: I only speak right on.— J. C. iii. 2