Famous quotes containing the word telling:
“I can teach thee, coz, to shame the devil
By telling truth: tell truth and shame the devil.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“Wags try to invent new stories to tell about the legislature, and end by telling the old one about the senator who explained his unaccustomed possession of a large roll of bills by saying that someone pushed it over the transom while he slept. The expression “It came over the transom,” to explain any unusual good fortune, is part of local folklore.”
—For the State of Montana, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)
“Human beings are interested in two things. They are interested in the reality and interested in telling about it.”
—Gertrude Stein (1874–1946)