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 (18751950)
“To tell you the truth, Im relieved that the Van Ripers are not coming. Hes telling the same jokes he told twenty years ago and she dyes her hair. I think its a shrimp pink now.”
—Adele Comandini, and Edward Sutherland. Michael OBrien (Charles Winninger)
“Andrews: You married him only because I told you not to.
Ellie: Youve been telling me what not to do ever since I can remember.
Andrews: Thats because youve always been a stubborn idiot.
Ellie: I come from a long line of stubborn idiots.”
—Robert Riskin (18971955)