Quotes with tells

  • That's what a man wants in a wife, mostly; he wants to make sure one fool tells him he's wise.
  • Writing is a question of finding a certain rhythm. I compare it to the rhythms of jazz. Much of the time life is a sort of rhythmic progression of three characters. If one tells oneself that life is like that, one feels it less arbitrary.
  • One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth.
  • A man's very highest moment is, I have no doubt at all, when he kneels in the dust, and beats his breast, and tells all the sins of his life.
  • To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you ought to prefer is to have kept your soul alive.
  • I'm always making a comeback but nobody ever tells me where I've been.
  • Nothing is so galling to a people not broken in from the birth as a paternal, or in other words a meddling government, a government which tells them what to read and say and eat and drink and wear.
  • I like having my hair and face done, but I'm not going to lose weight because someone tells me to. I make music to be a musician not to be on the cover of Playboy.
  • The hell to be endured hereafter, of which theology tells, is no worse than the hell we make for ourselves in this world by habitually fashioned our characters in the wrong way.
  • There is a degree of confidence exhibited towards strangers in Sweden, especially in hotels, at post-stations, and on board the inland steamers, which tells well for the general honesty of the people.
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  • Denis Waitley A smile is the light in your window that tells others that there is a caring, sharing person inside.
    Denis Waitley
    American motivational speaker, writer and consultant (1933 - )
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  • Douglas Adams Beethoven tells you what it's like to be Beethoven and Mozart tells you what it's like to be human. Bach tells you what it's like to be the universe.
    Douglas Adams
    British science-fiction writer (1952 - 2001)
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  • Stan Smith Experience tells you what to do; confidence allows you to do it.
    Stan Smith
     
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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because they are generally the same people.
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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  • Bernard Mandeville The only thing of weight that can be said against modern honor is that it is directly opposite to religion. The one bids you bear injuries with patience, the other tells you if you don't resent them, you are not fit to live.
    Bernard Mandeville
    British writer and artist (1670 - 1733)
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  • Richard Buckminster Fuller There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly.
    Richard Buckminster Fuller
    American poet, philosopher and inventor (1895 - 1983)
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  • Plato They deem him their worst enemy who tells them the truth.
    Plato
    Greek philosopher (427 - 347)
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  • Buzz Aldrin 'Anthony and the Magic Picture Frame' tells it like it really was in America's early space program - the adventure, the risks, and the rewards.
    Buzz Aldrin
    American former astronaut, engineer and fighter (1930 - )
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  • Bert Leston Taylor A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you.
    Bert Leston Taylor
     
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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton A good novel tells us the truth about it's hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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  • Ogden Nash A husband is a guy who tells you when you've got on too much lipstick and helps you with your girdle when your hips stick.
    Ogden Nash
    American poet (1902 - 1971)
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  • George Bernard Shaw A man never tells you anything until you contradict him.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Frank A. Clark A man's conscience, like a warning line on the highway, tells him what he shouldn't do - but it does not keep him from doing it.
    Frank A. Clark
    American politician
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  • Walter Savage Landor A man's vanity tells him what is honor, a man's conscience what is justice.
    Walter Savage Landor
    British poet (1775 - 1864)
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  • Oscar Wilde A man's very highest moment is, I have no doubt at all, when he kneels in the dust, and beats his breast, and tells all the sins of his life.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Oscar Wilde A mask tells us more than a face.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Diane Arbus A photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you the less you know.
    Diane Arbus
    American photographer (1923 - 1971)
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  • Imamu Amiri Baraka A rich man told me recently that a liberal is a man who tells other people what to do with their money.
    Imamu Amiri Baraka
    African-American writer of poetry, drama and fiction (1934 - 2014)
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  • Ben Shapiro A West Virginia 10 is a California 4. Or at least that's what legend tells us: The Legend of Dr. Feelgood. Plastic surgery has a permanent home here, which is why Nancy Pelosi loves our Botoxed beaches. Beverly Hills looks like a moving Madame Tussauds.
    Ben Shapiro
    American conservative political commentator and attorney (1984 - )
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