Telling

Famous quotes containing the word telling:

    To make a man perfectly happy tell him he works too hard, that he spends too much money, that he is “misunderstood” or that he is “different”; none of this is necessarily complimentary, but it will flatter him infinitely more that merely telling him that he is brilliant, or noble, or wise, or good.
    Helen Rowland (1875–1950)

    Andrews: You married him only because I told you not to.
    Ellie: You’ve been telling me what not to do ever since I can remember.
    Andrews: That’s because you’ve always been a stubborn idiot.
    Ellie: I come from a long line of stubborn idiots.
    Robert Riskin (1897–1955)

    If there was twenty ways of telling the truth and only one way of telling a lie, the Government would find it out. It’s in the nature of governments to tell lies.
    George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)