Famous quotes containing the word telling:
“The worst fault of the working classes is telling their children they’re not going to succeed, saying: “There is life, but it’s not for you.””
—John Mortimer (b. 1923)
“Almost one half of our time is spent in telling and hearing evil of one another ... and every hour brings forth something strange and terrible to fill up our discourse and our astonishment.”
—Laurence Sterne (1713–1768)
“To tell you the truth, I’m relieved that the Van Ripers are not coming. He’s telling the same jokes he told twenty years ago and she dyes her hair. I think it’s a shrimp pink now.”
—Adele Comandini, and Edward Sutherland. Michael O’Brien (Charles Winninger)