See Also: HONESTY

1. About as sincere as the look upon the face of an undertaker conducting a nine-hundred-dollar funeral —H. L. Mencken
2. As candid as the C.I.A. —Anon
3. As devoted to candor as a high school valedictorian —Jonathan Valin
4. As forthcoming as Pravda —Joseph Wambaugh
5. As frank as a candid camera shot —Anon
6. As open [about revealing self] as an unsteamed clam —Elyse Sommer
7. As revealing as a locked diary —Anon
8. Candid as mirrors —Robert G. Ingersoll
9. Direct as a bullet —Flannery O’Connor
10. Phony as a laugh track —Vincent Canby, about the movie Murphy’s Romance, New York Times, January 17, 1986
11. Sincerity is like traveling on a plain beaten road, which commonly brings a man sooner to his journey’s end than by-ways in which men often lose themselves —John Tillotson
12. Took off the mask of tranquility she had worn … like an actress returning weary to her room after a trying fifth act and falling half-dead upon a couch, while the audience retains an image of her to which she bears not the slightest resemblance —Honoré de Balzac
13. (You get right) to the point … like a knife in the heart —Harvey Fierstein

    Fierstein’s simile is a line from La Cage aux Folles, the musical based on Jean Poire’s play by the same name.

14. Two-sided, like Janus —L. P. Hartley