Definition of Frankly

Frankly

In a frank manner; freely.

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Frankly Quotations

To state the facts frankly is not to despair the future nor indict the past. The prudent heir takes careful inventory of his legacies and gives a faithful accounting to those whom he owes an obligation of trust.
John F. Kennedy

It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

My family, frankly, they weren't folks who went to church every week. My mother was one of the most spiritual people I knew but she didn't raise me in the church, so I came to my Christian faith later in life and it was because the precepts of Jesus Christ spoke to me in terms of the kind of life that I would want to lead.
Barack Obama

Take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly, and try another. But by all means, try something.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

Frankly, Governor Romney in his career has created more jobs than the entire Obama cabinet combined, so he could actually talk about it.
Newt Gingrich

You know, modern liberals are just, I think frankly, totally off the deep end... their only answer is to yell racism and hide.
Newt Gingrich

The others don't like my interviews. And frankly, I don't care much for theirs.
Freddie Mercury

I say to you quite frankly that the time for racial discrimination is over.
Jimmy Carter

I would have liked having children to some degree, but frankly I haven't got the time to take the kids to the goddamn ballgame.
Albert Ellis

Whether Canada ends up as o-ne national government or two national governments or several national governments, or some other kind of arrangement is, quite frankly, secondary in my opinion.
Stephen Harper

Frankly, I got into the movies because I like the movies a lot.
Jack Nicholson

Quite frankly, teachers are the only profession that teach our children.
Dan Quayle

I want to be the greatest actor that ever lived, frankly. I'd love that. But I don't need to be. I just want to be here. That's it.
Jim Carrey

I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songs.
Joseph Addison

I thought, frankly, that it would be more pleasant to write a memoir than it was.
Jim Harrison

It was not until I had graduated from college that I made a professional commitment to it. Frankly, I didn't think it wise. I was my own interior parental force, and it's very difficult to justify a profession as a dancer.
Twyla Tharp

Frankly, I had thought that at the time Roe was decided, there was concern about population growth and particularly growth in populations that we don't want to have too many of.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg

McVeigh's lawyer got him the death penalty, which, quite frankly, I could have done.
Jon Stewart

I've always been very impatient. At age 10 I frankly found life boring, and I can remember age 9 having the awful thought, as it seems now looking back on it, A war! That should liven things up a bit!
Roger Bannister

My presence in the social media and on the Internet is much bigger than many of the other candidates, including Mitt Romney. So, when you take the social media and you take the Tea Party citizens movement, you have a combination there that, quite frankly, 10 years ago, I wouldn't have had a chance.
Herman Cain

I guess he wanted to see a little more sexual activity because in real life, in bed I think less is more and let the woman come to me. Frankly, I don't even need a woman there.
Garry Shandling

Frankly, I mean, sometimes the interpretations I've seen on some of the songs that I've written are a lot more interesting than the input that I put in.
David Bowie

Frankly, these days, without a theory to go with it, I can't see a painting.
Tom Wolfe

I don't think any of us can speak frankly about pain until we are no longer enduring it.
Arthur Golden

What will happen to sex after liberation? Frankly, I don't know. It is a great mystery to all of us.
Nora Ephron

To be able to pretend to be something that I'm frankly not is very liberating and exciting.
Hugh Laurie

The country needs and, unless I mistake its temper, the country demands bold, persistent, experimentation. It is common sense to take a method and try it, if it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.
Anthony Burgess

What I want the Congress of the United States to do, and frankly what I would like to see the President of the United States of America do, is speak a word of support to the people of Iran.
Mike Pence

I will use whatever position I have in order to root out hypocrisy. Democrats have strong moral values. Frankly, my moral values are offended by some of the things I hear on programs like "Rush Limbaugh," and we don't have to put up with that.
Howard Dean

I'm not sure it's the stimulus money that will necessarily allow the economy to recover. It will help to fortify our budgets, frankly, to ensure that there isn't as much backsliding in the areas of education and healthcare, for example.
Jon Huntsman, Jr.

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Frankly Translations

frankly in Dutch is ronduit, open en bloot, rondweg
frankly in French is franchise, ouvertement
frankly in German is freiheraus
frankly in Italian is liberamente, scoperto
frankly in Latin is libere, aperte
frankly in Spanish is francamente
frankly in Swedish is uppriktigt sagt

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