"Frank" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... conceited young man, talked much upon literary matters, and from his conversation gave you to understand that he was on the most intimate terms with all the celebrated authors of the day. After giving us a very frank, and by no means just critique upon the works of Scott and Byron, whom he familiarly called, 'my friend, Sir Walter,' 'my companion, Lord Byron,' he suddenly turned to me, and asked me, 'if I ever read the S. Chronicle?' This was one of the county papers, I told him; that ...
— Flora Lyndsay - or, Passages in an Eventful Life • Susan Moodie
... to me like that," she cried. "I'm not a child. Be frank with me, and tell me as if I were your sister. There is danger, is ...
— Sail Ho! - A Boy at Sea • George Manville Fenn
... her; some were seized with a violent admiration, if not of her, of her beautiful hats, delicate kid gloves, and all the et cetera which go to make up the toilet of a modern young lady. Others liked her fresh, frank manner and sympathy with them and their interests. Indeed, she was so nearly on their own level as to age that there was no room for condescension on this account; while, as to position, where was there ever an American girl ...
— Katie Robertson - A Girls Story of Factory Life • Margaret E. Winslow
... him straight and said in her own frank unaffected fashion, 'So am I, Mr. Berkeley, ...
— Philistia • Grant Allen
... knowledge of ballet steps, and singing songs which she confessed had been taught her by her cook when she was innocent and seventeen. She repeated these by request at intervals throughout the evening with such frank conviviality that Anthony, far from being annoyed, was gratified at this fresh source of entertainment. The occasion was memorable in other ways—a long conversation between Maury and a defunct crab, which he was dragging around on the end of a string, as to whether ...
— The Beautiful and Damned • F. Scott Fitzgerald
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