Top 100 Don't Tell Me Quotes
#1. If you stay in a house and you go to the bathroom and there is no toilet paper, you can always slide down the banisters. Don't tell me you haven't done it.
Paul Merton
#3. My trainer don't tell me nothing between rounds. I don't allow him to. I fight the fight. All I want to know is did I win the round. It's too late for advice.
Muhammad Ali
#4. I needed, I needed ... you." "Don't tell me you need me." "But I can't help it. I do
Abbi Glines
#5. There's not much you can do about time - it just keeps on passing. But experience? Don't tell me that. I'm not proud of it, but I don't have any sexual desire. And what sort of experience can a writer have if she doesn't feel passion? It'd be like a chef without an appetite.
Haruki Murakami
#6. Show me what you can do; don't tell me what you can do.
John Wooden
#7. Of course I know our economic growth can't match our population growth so of course I know we'll all get poorer until we get that number down - don't tell me, tell the other idiots!
Bernard Chidzero
#8. Whoa, there. Calm down." "Don't tell me what to do." "Okay, fine. Freak out.
Chelsea M. Cameron
#9. Please don't tell me to relax
it's only my tension that's holding me together.
Jane Seabrook
#10. There's something you should probably know." "Please don't tell me you had gender reassignment surgery. I don't think I can manage that today.
Helena Hunting
#11. Don't tell me not to drink. not to smoke. not to grieve.
if i speak of these things it's because i have to
but i am not speaking to you.
Julio Alexi Genao
#12. Don't tell me I don't know how to hate,' I wanted to say. Then I stopped and asked myself, 'Do you really want that to be your message? Think you can out-hate me, asshole? I was fucking hating people before you were even born!
David Sedaris
#13. So many women come to me saying, "I have lost too,
and this one, and this one". So many embryos retreat
to flesh: the live cell of the mother. Don't tell me that it
will happen for me, when the only sure thing is a miracle:
the sperm nuzzling in its nest and the egg that opens, explodes.
Zoe Brigley
#14. Calm down, Horus said.
"Don't tell me to calm down!"
Bast frowned. "I didn't."
"Talking to him!" I pointed at my forehead.
Rick Riordan
#15. I crossed a thousand leagues to come to you, and lost the best part of me along the way. Don't tell me to leave.
George R R Martin
#16. She stopped, then finally turned around, and looked at me. "Just because you've been in a war doesn't mean you've got a monopoly on shitty situations. And this is a shitty situation. So back to what I said before. Don't tell me what to do."(Sarah)
Charles Sheehan-Miles
#17. Part of me thinks we're fools to trust either of the, Hapexamendios or His Reconciler. If He was such a loving God, why did He do so much harm? And don't tell me He moves in mysterious ways because that's so much horse shit and we both know it.
Clive Barker
#18. Don't tell me what I'm not doing when I'm doing what you don't think I'm doing!
Gary Busey
#19. I'll try," he said, stretching his neck. "She's beautiful girl, Ryder. You're a lucky man."
"Don't tell me what I have like I don't know it," Jude said, his arms stiffening.
Nicole Williams
#20. Can't you even tell me if I'm on the right track?" Buckminster purred, and Dad shrugged his shoulders again. "But if you don't tell me anything, how can I ever be right?" He circled something in an article and said, "Another way of looking at it would be, how could you ever be wrong?
Jonathan Safran Foer
#21. Please don't tell me you're one of those pretentious readers who judge people by the books they like. He
Colleen Hoover
#22. I was born in California, raised a vegetarian, and love science fiction, so don't tell me how I need to be in order to fit your standards. When I was younger, those kinds of comments bothered me, but eventually got to a point where I realized I wasn't going to change who I was.
Aisha Tyler
#23. Levelheaded is not what you need, Sam. Damn it. You promised to leave me alone. But I am a miserable liar. Go away. And don't tell me what I need. You need passion. Sam
Paula Quinn
#24. Don't tell me you're going to eat a mashed-potato sandwich
Veronica Roth
#25. I've risked my life for you. I've walked half the length of Ravka for you, and I'd do it again and again and again just to be with you, just to starve with you and freeze with you and hear you complain about hard cheese every day. So don't tell me we don't belong together.
Leigh Bardugo
#26. Well, don't tell me that sexual freedom was Stalin's lasting contribution to mankind.
David Lagercrantz
#27. Don't tell me you don't know what love is When you're old enough to know better.
Elvis Costello
#28. I'm not drunk,' I said indignantly.
You were just dancing like some wood nymph five minutes ago. You took your shirt off and now you're latched onto me like a little monkey. So don't tell me you're in complete control of yourself.
Jennifer L. Armentrout
#29. Don't tell me! You're just rubbing it in! It serves me right, though: it was vanity that kept me from coming, egoistic vanity and base despotism, which I haven't been able to get rid of all my life, though all my life I've been trying to break myself.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#30. You have comfort. You don't have luxury. And don't tell me that money plays a part. The luxury I advocate has nothing to do with money. It cannot be bought. It is the reward of those who have NO Fear or Discomfort.
Jean Cocteau
#32. Don't tell me what you're going to do, show me what you've done.
Smith
#33. Saying things like that to me makes this so damn hard. I'll always be here for you. But don't tell me you need me.
Abbi Glines
#34. You only live once, why be miserable? Fat people are miserable
you are carrying 50 lbs on your shoulders all day, you get a disease called "pooped-out itis". Don't tell me that they are happy with the way they look and feel. I have to be honest, that is all I have.
Jack LaLanne
#35. Don't tell me this hurts for you too. A killer cannot sue for the bruises on his knuckles or the blood on his shoes.
Beau Taplin
#36. I can't stand this, Pigeon. I feel like I'm going crazy."
I threw out my hands and let them hit my thighs. "You can't stand what?"
"If you sleep with him, I don't wanna know about it. I'll go to prison for a long time if I find out he ... just don't tell me.
Jamie McGuire
#37. A method of procuring sensations? Do you think then, that a man who has once committed a murder could possibly do the same crime again? Don't tell me that." says Dorian.
"Oh! anything becomes a pleasure if one does it too often," says Lord Henry
Oscar Wilde
#38. I was in L.A. in '08. It was a cold Saturday night. I had spread my phone number out to a score of women and was just indulging this sweet, sad, elegiac, bale loneliness - don't tell me you haven't been there.
James Ellroy
#39. What do we talk about? Just ordinary things. What happened today, or books we've read, or tomorrow's weather, you know. Don't tell me you're wondering if people jump to their feet and shout stuff like 'It'll rain tomorrow if a polar bear eats the stars tonight!
Haruki Murakami
#40. I have seen what a handful of girls can do. They can hold back an army if necessary, so please don't tell me it isn't possible.
Libba Bray
#41. Don't tell me you don't know!" I roared at him. "Tell me one fucking thing you do know!" "That I love you." His breath hitched in his chest. And I just. I couldn't breathe. Everything
T.J. Klune
#42. The boy shall have a proper beating,' said Cecil.
'But I beat him already,' I said, 'and don't tell me I didn't do it properly. I'm touchy about these things.
Franny Billingsley
#43. Please don't tell me, it was less painful than a broken backbone, a forgotten poem, a lost home.
Khadija Rupa
#44. Don't tell me the sky is the limit - there's footprints on the Moon. - Overheard at a flee market.
Joseph Shellim
#45. I love you so much, Natalie, and when I get home I'm going to keep loving you until you tell me to stop. But don't, please. Don't tell me to stop. I love you. With everything.
Andrea Randall
#46. Don't tell me your name. It's likely to awaken my conscience, and that's the last thing we want.
Julia Quinn
#48. I love the confidence! I am who I am, and I know who I am. I respect what you have to say, but I'm not listening to you, and your opinion is not affecting me. I am a 49-year-old woman. Don't tell me! That's what I love!
Wendy Williams
#49. So help me God, if you don't tell me where you are right this second I will shoot you myself as soon as I find your scrawny ass.
Mary Calmes
#50. Don't tell me the Pigeon Whisperer dragged you into one of his stupid schemes.
Rachel Aaron
#51. Don't tell me what's necessary, you presumptupus pup. What's necessary is whatever I wish to do, regardless of how unnecessary it might be.
Dean Koontz
#52. Don't tell me your evaluation. Give me the facts.
Ayn Rand
#53. I do miss the idea of the crew getting together to watch dailies after work. I will usually get selected dailies printed on film especially for the early part of a shoot as HD dailies really don't tell me much photographically.
Roger Deakins
#54. Don't tell me you can pitch ... pitch. Don't tell me you can sell ... sell.
Joe Garagiola
#55. Don't tell me
about the seasons in the East, don't talk to me
about eternal California summer.
It's enough to have
a few days naked
among three hundred kinds of rain.
Sam Hamill
#56. OMG! Look at that! They're ALL wearing the same butt-ugly ensemble! Wait, don't tell me. They were giving them away for free with a purchase of a McDonald's Happy Meal!
Rachel Renee Russell
#57. Don't ever call me "kitten paws" again and don't tell me I need acting lessons or the next thing you'll be eating between two slices of bread will be a certain supersensitive part of your anatomy.
Sarah Morgan
#58. Don't tell me what to feel. All my fucking life, people have been telling me I do things wrong. I'm always the fucking asshole. I look around and I see everybody else is infinitely more fucked up than I am.
Hank Moody
#60. Hold on. I thought you were a vegetarian?" She swallowed. "No, I'm a don't-tell-me-what-to-do-atarian
Nicole Archer
#61. Don't tell me about the pain. Show me the baby.
Bill Parcells
#62. Don't tell me you have OCD about this?"
"OCD, ADHD - pretty sure if they come up with some new acronym tomorrow I'd have it.
Cyma Rizwaan Khan
#63. Please don't tell me you drive with your eyes closed.
Anne Eliot
#64. Don't tell me what's in the Red Book. I wrote the goddamned thing. And I know that it's a lot of crap.
Paul Martin
#65. Don't tell me how talented you are. Tell me how hard you work.
Arthur Rubinstein
#66. Wrote my way out of the hood ... thought my way out of poverty! Don't tell me that knowledge isn't power. Education changes everything.
Brandi L. Bates
#67. I just have a way about me where people know that they don't tell me what to do, they kind of just wait for me to do it.
Estelle
#68. Don't tell me they didn't have a choice. Now the whole world stands on the brink, staring down into bloody hell, all those liberals and intellectuals and smooth-talkers ... and all of a sudden, nobody can think of anything to say.
Alan Moore
#69. Don't tell me of deception; a lie is a lie, whether it be a lie to the eye or a lie to the ear.
Samuel Johnson
#70. Don't tell me, don't promise me, surprise me!
Nadina Boun
#71. He likes you, too." Finn repeated. "And don't tell me to shut up."
"Shut up!"
-Kingdom Keepers, Shell Game
Ridley Pearson
#72. Don't tell me Kinshasa, the poorest city in the poorest country in the world, a place where the average per capita income is one goat bell, two bootleg Michael Jackson cassette tapes, and three sips of potable water per year, thinks we're too poor to associate with.
Paul Beatty
#73. Don't tell me something happened to her," I say, "not unless you want the world to burn.
J.M. Darhower
#74. Don't tell me how good you make it; tell me how good it makes me when I use it.
Leo Burnett
#75. Don't tell me what to do, don't tell me what to say. And please, when I go out with you, don't put me on display.
Lesley Gore
#76. Fifty?" Harry gasped.
"Fifty points each," said Professor McGonagall, breathing heavily.
"Professor - please - "
"You can't - "
"Don't tell me what I can and can't do, Potter. I've never been more ashamed of Gryffindor students.
J.K. Rowling
#77. I like surprises. I like mystery. I'm not the kind of person who goes to the writer's room and goes, I need to know the whole story so I can prepare. No, don't tell me anything!
Josh Holloway
#78. Don't tell me you're reading it,' she said, as if I were doing something to the book, whereas in fact the book was doing something to me.
Sara Levine
#79. Be careful. As if something's going to jump us in a library."
"You might be surprised."
"What do you mean?"
"You know how people say a book is really gripping?"
"Don't tell me ... " Cat trailed off.
"Libraries can be dangerous.
Max Gladstone
#80. The kids say golf taught them this and that. I get it with the military: A guy joins the military because he needs discipline and has to find himself. But don't tell me, 'Golf helps you find yourself.' I've been playing my whole life, and I'm still looking for myself.
Lewis Black
#81. We are the party of Roosevelt. We are the party of Kennedy. So don't tell me that Democrats won't defend this country. Don't tell me that Democrats won't keep us safe.
Barack Obama
#82. Who's Jessie?"
"My Yugo"
"You have a name for your Yugo? Please don't tell me you're one of those guys who also names his dick."
"Unfortunately, I've yet to find the perfect name for mine, so it's in this netherworld of nameless identity right now.
Rachel Cohn
#83. Don't tell me what I won't do Serena, because when it comes to you, I seem to be breaking all of my own rules
Beckie Stevenson
#84. Don't tell me you're not beautiful. You're the kind of beautiful the blind would see if we could figure out some way to give them three seconds of sight.
Shane Koyczan
#85. Elphaba: "I just wish ..."
Fiyero: "What?"
Elphaba: "I wish I could be beautiful ... for you."
Fiyero: "Elphaba ..."
Elphaba: "Don't tell me that I am. You don't need to lie to me."
Fiyero: "It's not lying! It's looking at things another way.
Stephen Schwartz
#86. Don't tell me the skys the limit when there are footprints on the moon
Claire
#87. Listen you little turd, don't tell me my business. It's not worth the risk," the Old Man snarled.
"But Green ... Yikes, that stings!
Judy Byington
#88. So you can say, 'Get Big Government out of here, and don't tell me what to eat,' but when kids are going to school, and they're being fed junk, we're pretty much telling them what to eat, and we're telling them junk is OK.
Tom Colicchio
#89. I have this brand, I have my name. And I'm going to do what I want because people will buy it. People will enjoy it. So don't tell me I have to follow this formula and sit inside the box. Because I don't.
Sasha Grey
#90. But we lost so much in the Prettytime - all the foundations were gone. So we're stuck making it up as we go along!"
Tally laughed. "So what else is new, Frizz? Life doesn't come with an instruction manual. So don't tell me that humanity being logic-missing is my fault.
Scott Westerfeld
#91. Are you crying, Ringer?"
"My eyes are watering."
"No."
"Don't tell me no, Razor. I don't cry."
"Bullshit.
Rick Yancey
#92. Don't tell me this is a difficult problem. If it weren't difficult, it wouldn't be a problem.
Ed Koch
#93. I'm not good at secrets, so don't tell me any.
A. J. McLean
#94. Don't tell me the skies the limit when there are footprints on the moon.
-Aminah Iman
Aminah Iman
#95. And don't tell me the end justifies the means because it doesn't. We never reach the end. All we ever get is means. That's what we live with.
Nick Harkaway
#96. Please don't give me words; give me a hug. Don't tell me that I'm holding up so well; break down with me and admit our shared wretchedness. Don't feign some bright mountaintop; walk with me through the dark valley where neither of us can utter a word.
Robert Dykstra
#97. Don't tell me what they did to you as though you had no choice. Tell me, isn't that your picture? Isn't that your voice.
Ani DiFranco
#98. He yells, "I want any part of you that you're willing to give me!"
We both fall quiet. Breathing hard. Staring each other down.
And his voice drops low. Defeated. "I'll take anything, Kate.
Just ... don't tell me it's over. I won't accept that.
Emma Chase
#99. Susie had an intense thought and then an effusion. 'My dear child, we move in a labyrinth.' 'Of course we do. That's just the fun of it!' said Milly with a strange gaiety. Then she added: 'Don't tell me that - in this for instance - there are not abysses. I want abysses.
Henry James
#100. It just occurred to me - what are you like when you travel?"
I beamed at him, turning on his radio. "Eighties music, baby. Don't tell me you didn't light the fire."
He groaned. "This is going to be one long ride.
Tijan
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