"Candidly" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... have cost such a lot to explain," he answered candidly. "I did think of that and started to send one. Then I found I had only twopence in my pocket. If I had sent anyone else to the office everyone would have known I was sending for you and Caesar would have been more annoyed ...
— Christopher Hibbault, Roadmaker • Marguerite Bryant
... say I do. In fact, I never went on the sea till I went to Nassau with my father," replied Percy candidly. "But I can soon ...
— Taken by the Enemy • Oliver Optic
... that any deposit is not a marine formation because it does not contain fossils. As for myself, I never believed for a moment in Agassiz's idea of the origin of the Amazonian formation." Agassiz "candidly confesses (Lyell's Principles, i., 468) that he failed to discover any of those proofs which we are accustomed to regard, even in temperate latitudes, as essential for the establishment of the former existence of glaciers where they are now no more. No glaciated pebbles, or far-transported ...
— The Andes and the Amazon - Across the Continent of South America • James Orton
... Answer me one question, candidly, and, perhaps, I may entrust you with a secret.—Is Mr. ...
— John Bull - The Englishman's Fireside: A Comedy, in Five Acts • George Colman
... gates of heaven opened readily enough to their wealth. But what about the good and just God who had distributed His gifts so unevenly? It would be better, indeed, to live one's life without this unjust God, who had, moreover, candidly admitted that the "wind blew where it listed"; had He not himself confessed, in these words, that He did not interfere in the concerns of man? But failing the church, where should we look for comfort? And yet, why ask for comfort? Wouldn't it be far better to strive ...
— Married • August Strindberg
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