Famous quotes containing the word telling:
“Human beings are interested in two things. They are interested in the reality and interested in telling about it.”
—Gertrude Stein (1874–1946)
“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)
“No blame should attach to telling the truth. But it does, it does.”
—Anita Brookner (b. 1938)