Top 100 If You Tell Quotes
#1. I tell the truth, and it has gotten me into a lot of trouble. My dad used to say to me, 'If you tell the truth all day long, you will end up in jail.'
Elaine Stritch
#2. He shook his head. "Uh-uh. That's not going to work anymore. You can be as hard and sarcastic as you want, but we both know you really have a soft spot for me. You just admitted it." "If you tell anyone, I'll deny it.
Sarah Addison Allen
#3. They say the average person can't make a living in art ... but if you tell me there's something I can't do, that's what I have to do.
George Sutherland
#4. If you tell a lie to make a person better, then that is not a sin.
Sun Myung Moon
#5. That which a man continually thinks about determines his actions in times of opportunity and stress. I will know what you are if you tell me what you think about when you don't have to think.
David O. McKay
#6. You want to draw your readers into the world you've created, make them feel a part of it, make them forget where they are. And you can't do this effectively if you tell your readers about your world secondhand. You
Renni Browne
#7. It's a secret and if you tell a secret the secret comes alive and can never be kept safe at home again.
Catherynne M Valente
#8. But I told my grandmother, and she listened, and then she said, "Don't ever tell this story to anybody else. If you tell this story to anybody else, something terrible will happen. Something terrible will happen to our family." And then she had a lot to do. (174)
Robert Goolrick
#9. If you tell people where to go, but not how to get there, you'll be amazed at the results.
George S. Patton
#10. No, Paul, I couldn't care less if you tell me made-up stories. Our lies reveal as much about us as our truths.' (Said to Paul by Elizabeth Costello, the interloping novelist-angel-inner voice).
J.M. Coetzee
#11. If you tell stories you love, you will never tell them with indifference - take it to the bank.
Carmen Agra Deedy
#12. if you tell me you want to spend every single day on the calendar this year falling in love with me, then I'm going to kiss you. And I promise it'll be an eleven.
Colleen Hoover
#13. Left to themselves, things tend to go from bad to worse. Murphy's First Corollary If you tell the boss you were late for work because you had a flat tire, the next morning you will have a flat tire.
George Edward Woodberry
#14. The English take everything with an exquisite sense of humour. They are only offended if you tell them that they have no sense of humour.
George Mikes
#15. we go to the bedroom now? I don't mind if you tell me off there, either. In fact, if you play the bossy schoolmaster I think that would bode well for our relationship.
Susan Mac Nicol
#16. If you take that risk, if you take that chance, if you tell the truest, hardest, deepest story you have within you, you're not going to step into the light and find that you're there alone. That you're going to be surrounded by people who are there with you.
Cheryl Strayed
#17. Everyone looks up to you. They listen to you. If you tell them to fight, they'll fight. But they need to be inspired. And let's face it, "Superman" ... the last time you really inspired anyone
was when you were dead.
Geoff Johns
#18. If you tell me I'm sensible in addition to normal and wise, I'm going to punch you in the stomach.
J.D. Robb
#19. In love, as in life, one misheard word can be tremendously important. If you tell someone you love them, for instance, you must be absolutely certain that they have replied "I love you back" and not "I love your back" before you continue the conversation.
Lemony Snicket
#20. If you send me on my way today," I whispered "If you tell me to get the hell out of your life and never come back ... I'll accept it. But it will be the one and only permanent regret of my life: that we never made love.That we lost our future together.
Charles Sheehan-Miles
#21. If you tell a lie, always rehearse it. If it don't sound good to you, it won't sound good to anybody.
Satchel Paige
#22. If you tell people they can't burn CDs of their music, as almost every current legal music service has done, or they can only burn one CD with a track or pay per track per burn extra, nobody is going to go for it.
Steve Jobs
#23. If you tell a teammate you're ready to play as tough as you're able to, you'd better go out there and do it.
Larry Bird
#24. I wanted to be a psychologist. You know, I thought that's what I'd be doing and it just goes to show you that, if you tell God your plans, He will laugh in your face.
Gabourey Sidibe
#25. If you tell me the truth, the truth I'll proclaim.
If you tell me a lie, you'll be fair game.
Belva Rae Staples
#26. There's a tendency to fall into certain habits, but if you tell yourself not to do that and if you don't stay there too long - I think if you start staying for too long, you tend to fall into certain bad habits, and I tried not to do that.
Josh Duhamel
#27. If you tell the truth, then you don't have to have a good memory
Judy Sheindlin
#28. My dad had this philosophy that if you tell children they're beautiful and wonderful then they believe it, and they will be. So I never thought I was unattractive. But I was never one of the girls at school who had lots of boyfriends.
Emily Mortimer
#29. I went to Shea Stadium and used the men's room. Terrifying. There was this little kid looking at me through the crack [in the stall]. and I was like, "If you tell anyone what you've seen ... "
Elizabeth Gilbert
#31. If you tell the truth, you have infinite power supporting you; but if not, you have infinite power against you.
Charles George Gordon
#32. Just a reminder, if you tell anyone about what happened with Jonah last night, I'll destroy all of my writing and never play music again.
Bob Dylan
#34. If you tell a guy you don't like being tickled and he tickles you anyway, that's a red flag.
Anna Kendrick
#35. Sometimes when an actor says something almost perfect, but you know you have to edit it, if you tell them to change something immediately, it will come out great.
Michel Hazanavicius
#36. You're really a blond," she said, her tone just short of accusatory.
"And if you tell anyone, I will come to you in the night and smote your everlasting soul.
Kelly Creagh
#37. If you tell a child "Don't touch yourself there," they will deal with some kind of sexual problem from then on, to one degree or other.
Betty Dodson
#38. People are terrified. A lot of them are in relationships that aren't satisfying, and if you tell them they can change their life, they get really scared.
Erica Jong
#39. If you tell the truth you do not need a good memory!
Mark Twain
#40. If you tell the truth, you don't need a long memory.
Jesse Ventura
#41. So telling a lie becomes a sin if you tell it to take advantage of a person, but if you tell a lie to do a good thing for him that is not a sin. Even God tells lies very often; you can see this throughout history.
Sun Myung Moon
#42. If you tell people there is an invisible man who looks like Jesus flying in the sky, a majority of people will believe you. If you tell them that paint on a wall is wet, they will have to touch it to believe you.
Anonymous
#43. If you tell the truth about how you're feeling, it becomes funny.
Larry David
#44. True respect means taking other people's beliefs seriously and assuming they are adult and intelligent enough to be able to cope with it if you tell them, clearly and civility, why you think they are totally, utterly and disastrously wrong.
Julian Baggini
#45. If you tell Congress everything about the world situation, they get hysterical. If you tell them nothing, they go fishing.
Harry S. Truman
#46. If you tell an amateur that his story is not good, he always declares indignantly: 'Oh, but it really happened just like this!' The writer who doesn't understand that this is beside the point is not a writer at all.
Ayn Rand
#47. If you tell the story emotionally in a truthful way, then you start naturally looking at the landscape and thinking "Wow, we have to watch out."
Viggo Mortensen
#48. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out that if you tell kids they're stupid
directly or indirectly
sooner or later they start to believe it.
Erin Gruwell
#49. - And I won't deny your neighbors will take you more seriously if you tell them you've written a novel. (Of course if that's the main concern, just go and tell them. You don't have to write anything. Just lie a little. Don't worry - they won't beg to read the manuscript.)
Lawrence Block
#50. Most testers I've known are perverse enough that if you tell them the "happy path" through the application, that's the last thing they'll do. It should be the same with load testing.
Michael T. Nygard
#51. If you tell one lie, you have to tell more to keep the first lie alive. A story is a good lie with an exit strategy.
Kelvin Kwa
#52. If you tell kids they can't have something, that's what they want.
Billy Joel
#53. I love dress shopping, and I love talking about the wedding food. That's what makes me happy. If you tell me to do a guest list, I cry. I hate it.
Chrissy Teigen
#54. If you tell a person about paradise,
It becomes a dream.
If you show a person paradise,
It becomes a goal!
Gabriel Madison
#55. If you tell a story enough times, it sounds like fiction. You don't feel that visceral throb of resonance with the person who is you, who did the things you did.
Leah Raeder
#56. People will accept your ideas much more readily if you tell them that Benjamin Franklin said it first. Perhaps it is impossible for a person who does no good to do no harm.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
#57. If you tell a novelist, 'Life's not like that', he has to do something about it. The poet simply replies, 'No, but I am.'
Philip Larkin
#58. I do think there is a strange idea that the media has that if you tell the public what you think, they can no longer think for themselves.
Ryan Grim
#59. If you tell people your ambitions, they usually laugh at you. When I told my girlfriends when I was 12 that I was going to Hollywood, they all laughed. And here I am!
Helen Reddy
#60. Has that Copperfield no tague! I would do a good deal for you, if you tell me, without lying that somebody had cut it out
Charles Dickens
#61. If you tell me I can't do something, that's the worst thing to tell me. And that's what I tell girls, and what Beckham's about: you can do it, you can do it better, and you can do it in the way you want.
Gurinder Chadha
#62. The most immediate is that if you tell your partner "It's okay to ask for anything you want," it better be true. If you're not prepared to make it safe for your partner to open up to you, he won't. Because he'll feel he can't.
Franklin Veaux
#63. I've always been pretty tough in that way, where if you tell me I can't do something, I will prove you wrong.
Willie Aames
#64. The thing that hurts, that became anger, was when I realized that if you tell the truth, in a country that says you're entitled to tell the truth, you get your face slapped and you get put out of work.
Eartha Kitt
#65. If you tell the truth, it becomes a part of your past. If you lie, it becomes a part of your future.
John Spence
#66. There are some stories, some memories, that if you tell them after dark, they seem to gain weight, substance, as if there are things listening, waiting to hear themselves spoken of again. Words have power. But even thinking about them is sometimes enough to make the air in a room heavy.
Laurell K. Hamilton
#67. If you do some wonderful service and if you tell people what you did in a boastful way, it nullifies the credit of your service, may not be in the eternal platform, but in your conscious condition you will not be able to reap the benefits of that service.
Radhanath Swami
#68. I think the best thing I ever did was never tell anyone I wanted to be an actor. I find if you tell people what you're dreaming about, they'll usually come up with lots of reasons to not chase your dreams.
Poorna Jagannathan
#69. Maybe you're not so bad after all.'
He leant across the seat, jabbing his finger in the air. 'If you tell anyone, I'll deny it. I have a reputation to uphold, you know.
Catherine Doyle
#70. If you tell a lie that's big enough, and you tell it often enough, people will believe you're telling the truth, even if what you're saying is total crap.
Richard Belzer
#71. He's good in bed, too?" Marnie asked, clearly skeptical. "That just isn't fair. If I looked like him, I'd
never leave my house. I'd just stay home and fuck myself. If you tell me he has a big dick, I might become either a cutter or a lesbian.
R.K. Lilley
#72. If you tell me, I will listen. If you show me, I will see. If you let me experience, I will learn!
Laozi
#73. If you tell stories, you like nothing so much as to tell them to people who want to listen.
Frances Hodgson Burnett
#74. If you tell people enough times that they are unhappy, incomplete, possibly insane and definitely selfish there is bound to come a grey morning when they wake up with the beginning of a nasty cold and wonder if they are lonely rather than simply "alone."
Sara Maitland
#75. If you tell yourself something often enough you will start to believe it, that is why you must make self love your mantra.
Leon Brown
#76. When you observe yourself you must not condemn or approve what you see. If you tell a lie there is no need to judge your-self.
Barry Long
#77. Communicate with your fans or customers. They know we live in an ever changing world. If you tell them what you are thinking and why you are doing what you do, as I did with my blog regarding Nash leaving, they will respect and support you more.
Mark Cuban
#78. If you tell me I can't do something, it just makes me want to do it more.
Josie Maran
#79. And good luck to you, tortoise," whispered the hare, leaning in close. "And just so you know - nobody knows this, and if you tell anyone I said it, I'll deny it - but I'm not really a hare. I'm a rabbit." This wasn't true - the hare just said it to fuck with him.
B.J. Novak
#80. If you tell yourself a lie long enough, you'll start to believe it.
Tony Robbins
#81. If you tell your husband or boyfriend for his whole life that he needn't worry about his clothes, that he couldn't possibly understand them, that they are a woman's affair, then you can hardly complain that he doesn't have any style sense. You all make this bed.
Russell Smith
#82. Do Mom and Dad know you're dating a homicidal lunatic? (Madaug)
No, and if you tell them, I'll superglue your fingertips to your keyboard. (Eric)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#83. We must be a beacon of hope, because if you tell people there's nothing they can do, they will do worse than nothing.
Margaret Atwood
#84. There was a naked jock on my bed and a thing with tentacles coming out of my toilet. One of these things did not belong, and if you tell me that it was the naked jock, you shouldn't be reading this story.
Johnny Murdoc
#85. If you tell your troubles to God, you put them into the grave; they will never rise again when you have committed them to Him. If you roll your burden anywhere else, it will roll back again like the stone of Sisyphus.
Charles Spurgeon
#86. People seem to have an impressive capacity to change themselves if you believe in them, if you tell them they can and give them some help in doing so.
William R. Miller
#87. If you tell someone you're doing something innovative, they'll think you're doing something innovative.
Grimes
#88. Let me tell you, a discussion that starts, 'I'll tell you something you do that irritates me, if you tell me something I do that bothers you,' never ends in a hug and a kiss.
Phyllis Diller
#89. So I have been careful about where I go and who I hang out with because if you tell someone the wrong thing, then it's everywhere.
Frances Bean Cobain
#90. Nothing great comes into being all at once, for that is not the case even with a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me now, 'I want a fig,' I'll reply, 'That takes time.
Epictetus
#91. Damen to Jord about Laurent: 'He needs me,' said Damen. 'I don't care if you tell the world.
C.S. Pacat
#93. Leadership is getting players to believe in you. If you tell a teammate you're ready to play as tough as you're able to, you'd better go out there and do it. Players will see right through a phony. And they can tell when you're not giving it all you've got.
Larry Bird
#94. The great thing about a song is that no one has to know your story. But if you tell it in a way that has clarity and means something to somebody else, then it can apply to their story.
Amy Grant
#95. If you tell yourself something over and over again, right or wrong, it becomes intuitive.
Sidney Coleman
#96. I've always been a fighter. If you tell me I can't, I'll die trying to prove you wrong.
R.A. Salvatore
#97. If you tell the same story five times, it's true.
Larry Speakes
#98. I'm told the effect is cumulative
it will continue to worsen." Though outwardly calm as he explained this, his face had paled even more. "But if you tell me about the Valkyrie's weaknesses, I'll administer the antidote."
"Weaknesses? So many. Foremost, we're ... ticklish.
Kresley Cole
#99. Fifty Shades Of Grey proved you can write about a dude choking women and shoving stuff up their butts but heaven forbid if you tell a legitimate joke about it. Sure I doubled the number of feminists who hate me, but I also doubled the number of shows I have on TV. No regrets.
Daniel Tosh
#100. If you tell a friend a secret, she will keep the secret by telling only one other person.
Lisa Birnbach
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