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If a woman tells you she's twenty and looks sixteen, she's twelve. If she tells you she's twenty-six and looks twenty-six, she's damn near fourty.
View quotes by Chris Rock
A man who tells lies, like me, merely hides the truth. But a man who tells half-lies has forgotten where he put it.
View quotes by Claude Rains
Fable is more historical than fact, because fact tells us about one man and fable tells us about a million men.
View quotes by Gilbert Keith Chesterton
A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
View quotes by Gilbert Keith Chesterton
Twenty years of votes can tell you much more about a man than twenty weeks of campaign rhetoric. Campaign talk tells people who you want them to think you are. How you vote tells people who you really are deep inside.
View quotes by Zell Miller
The idea that Gordon Brown goes round and tells other ministers what to do, let me tell you, I'm the secretary of state for education, nobody comes and tells me what to do
View quotes by Alan Johnson
The seaman tells stories of winds, the ploughman of bulls; the soldier details his wounds, the shepherd his sheep. (Elegies)
View quotes by Propertius
I submit that an individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for the law.
View quotes by Martin Luther King Jr
When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him: 'Whose?'
View quotes by Don Marquis
He who tells a lie is not sensible of how great a task he undertakes; for he must be forced to invent twenty more to maintain that one.
View quotes by Alexander Pope
Grief that is dazed and speechless is out of fashion: the modern woman mourns her husband loudly and tells you the whole story of his death, which distresses her so much that she forgets not the slightest detail about it.
View quotes by Jean De La Bruyere
Whenever a fellow tells me he's bipartisan, I know he's going to vote against me.
View quotes by Harry S Truman
A man never tells you anything until you contradict him.
View quotes by George Bernard Shaw
We know what a person thinks not when he tells us what he thinks, but by his actions.
View quotes by Isaac Singer
Yes, oh dear, yes, the novel tells a story.
View quotes by E M Forster
Run for your life from any man who tells you that money is evil. That sentence is the leper's bell of an approaching looter.
View quotes by Ayn Rand
Blood will tell, but often it tells too much.
View quotes by Don Marquis
The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness.
View quotes by Vladimir Nabokov
Do not mind anything that anyone tells you about anyone else. Judge everyone and everything for yourself.
View quotes by Henry James
Anyone of my generation who tells you he hasn't 'done Brando' is lying.
View quotes by James Caan
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Proverbs:
Every Picture Tells A Story
The One Who Tells The Stories Rules The World
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