Telling Quotes

We often want one thing and pray for another, not telling the truth even to the gods. (Seneca)
Cynicism is an unpleasant way of telling the truth. View quote
Lillian Hellman
Homer has taught all other poets the art of telling lies skillfully. View quote
Aristotle
It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place. View quote
H. L. Mencken
During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act. View quote
George Orwell
Flattery is telling the other person precisely what he thinks about himself. View quote
Dale Carnegie
The secret of being tiresome is in telling everything. View quote
Voltaire
I have been thinking that I would make a proposition to my Republican friends... that if they will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them. View quote
Adlai Stevenson II
Suicide is man's way of telling God, "You can't fire me - I quit." View quote
Bill Maher
Autobiography-that unrivalled vehicle for telling the truth about other people. View quote
Philip Guedalla
Animation offers a medium of story telling and visual entertainment which can bring pleasure and information to people of all ages everywhere in the world. (Walt Disney)
The English are polite by telling lies. The Americans are polite by telling the truth. View quote
Malcolm Bradbury
There are few joys to compare with the telling of a well-told tale. View quote
Charles de Lint
The great advantage about telling the truth is that nobody ever believes it. View quote
Dorothy L. Sayers
I talk about the gods, I am an atheist. But I am an artist too, and therefore a liar. Distrust everything I say. I am telling the truth. View quote
Ursula K. Le Guin
I like beautiful melodies telling me terrible things. View quote
Tom Waits
If you have a story that seems worth telling, and you think you can tell it worthily, then the thing for you to do is to tell it, regardless of whether it has to do with sex, sailors or mounted policemen. View quote
Dashiell Hammett
Human beings are interested in two things. They are interested in the reality and interested in telling about it. View quote
Gertrude Stein
I am not arguing with you - I am telling you. View quote
James McNeill Whistler
I am interested in telling my particular truth as I have seen it. View quote
Gwendolyn Brooks
I love you and, because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore me for telling you lies. (Pietro Aretino)
I'm strictly for Stevenson. I don't dig the intellectual bit, but I'm telling you, man, he knows the most. View quote
Elvis Presley
One mark of a second-rate mind is to be always telling stories. View quote
Jean de La Bruyère
Because Dickens and Dostoyevsky and Woody Guthrie were telling their stories much better than I ever could, I decided to stick to my own mind. View quote
Bob Dylan
A pity beyond all telling is hid in the heart of love. View quote
William Butler Yeats