Top 100 Never Tell Quotes
#1. Stand up for your rights and be brave, and don't be intimidated. Read your Bible. That's really given me strength, and it will give you strength. Pray, and use God's name, Jehovah. And never tell a lie, ever.
Margaret Keane
#2. Did your mother never tell you not to drink on an empty head?
Billy Connolly
#3. No, we don't cheat. And even if we did, I'd never tell you.
Tommy Lasorda
#4. I must be getting old ... People are beginning to tell me I look so young. They never tell you that when you are young.
Lucy Maud Montgomery
#5. He never pays attention, he always knows the answer, and he can never tell you how he knows. We can't keep thrashing him. He is a bad example to the other pupils. There's no educating a smart boy.
Terry Pratchett
#6. To my mind losing is always better than never trying, because you can never tell what may happen.
Jean Chretien
#7. Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.
Mark Twain
#8. It's not the content of our dreams that gives our second heart its dark color; it's the thoughts that go through our heads in those wakeful moments when sleep won't come. And those are the things we never tell anyone at all.
Carolyn Parkhurst
#9. Time is infinitely more precious than money, and there is nothing common between them. You cannot accumulate time; you cannot borrow time; you can never tell how much time you have left in the Bank of Life. Time is life ...
Israel Davidson
#10. But you can never tell with shadows. You have to be vigilant, always, because maybe you're crazy, but maybe you're right. I
Ariel Levy
#11. Move fast, travel light, an never tell 'em your real name.
Moira Young
#12. You can't touch me, I whisper. I'm lying, is what I don't tell him. He can touch me, is what I'll never tell him. Please touch me, is what I want to tell him.
Tahereh Mafi
#13. Nurses never tell you what they know. They're hired for their cheeriness and the thickness of their hair. They need to look alive and healthy, to give the patients something to aim for.
Jenny Downham
#14. If there's a problem, we at Wine Library never tell ourselves that once we handle this issue, we'll never have to deal with the person again. We talk to every single person as though we're going to wind up sitting next to that person at his or her mother's house that night for dinner.
Gary Vaynerchuk
#15. I talk to my readers on social networking sites, but I never tell them what the book is about. Writing is lonely, so from time to time I talk to them on the Internet. It's like chatting at a bar without leaving your office. I talk with them about a lot of things other than my books.
Paulo Coelho
#16. You can never tell a good seed from a bad seed until it blossoms
Yuki Amemiya
#17. I believe that there is a certain amount of mysticism that all women should have, that you should never tell all your secrets, that you should never tell everybody all about you.
Stevie Nicks
#18. Your joys and sorrows. You can never tell them. You cheapen the inside of yourself if you do tell them.
Greta Garbo
#19. Who ... what are they?"
"My pride and glory," Alex said fondly. "Betty and Lucy Coltrane. Best damned bouncers in the business. Though of course I'd never tell them that. Fiercer than pit bulls and cheaper to run. Married to each other. They had a dog once, but they ate it.
Simon R. Green
#21. God will never tell us to do something that gratifies the flesh.
Charles Stanley
#22. I've always said the shoes must never tell the foot how big to be.
Rick Warren
#23. I want to punch him, but I don't because he's Pax. I can never tell if he's really so dumb that he doesn't even know he's dumb. If he's that stupid, I don't feel good about messing with him.
Bijou Hunter
#24. I'm sorry. but you could never tell the difference between the mood you were in, and me.
Pleasefindthis
#25. Best and dearest flower that grows, / Perfect both to see and smell; / Words can never, never tell / Half the beauty of a Rose - .
Cicely Mary Barker
#26. Hitler's mind was a deep-running river. You could never tell when something it had absorbed would bob to the surface again.
Ernst Hanfstaengl
#27. Never tell the auidience how good you are, they will soon find out for themselves.
Harry Houdini
#28. Never tell a lie when you can bullshit your way through it
Eric Ambler
#29. I never tell students they cannot read a book they pick up, but I do guide them toward books that I think would be a good fit for them. I think of myself as a reading mentor-a reader who can help them find books they might like.
Donalyn Miller
#30. But if you've seen a dead body, you know how they change the air: that huge silence, the absence strong as a black hole, time stopped and molecules frozen around the still thing that's learned the final secret, the one he can never tell.
Tana French
#31. You always use that word "remember",' said Milena. 'You say, "remember, team". You never tell us to think.
Geoff Ryman
#32. Scar tissue is what remains when the wound heals. they never tell you that. reminders, they are. those sons of bitches.
Darnell Lamont Walker
#33. Favorite poems are like favorite children. We definitely have them but we never tell as the others would have their feelings hurt.
Nikki Giovanni
#34. When I leave town now I never tell my people where I am going. If I did, I would lose all my pleasure. it is a silly habit, I dare say, but somehow it seems to bring a great deal of romance into one's life.
Oscar Wilde
#35. If you think someone is humble, never tell them so. You will unknowingly rob them of the very thing you admire.
Christy Hall
#38. This girl: she bent reality around her like a lens bending light, she pleated it into so many flickering layers that you could never tell which one you were looking at, the longer you stared the dizzier you got.
Tana French
#39. If you tell stories you love, you will never tell them with indifference - take it to the bank.
Carmen Agra Deedy
#40. Santino, come here. What's the matter with you? I think your brain is going soft with all that comedy you are playing with that young girl. Never tell anyone outside the Family what you're thinking again. Go on.
Mario Puzo
#41. The cat: an animal that's so unpredictable, you can never tell in advance how it will ignore you the next time.
Evan Esar
#42. Refuse to be ill. Never tell people you are ill; never own it to yourself. Illness is one of those things which a man should resist on principle at the onset.
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
#43. You can never tell how you sound over the phone, that evil piece of machinery, and I would stop using one, we all would, if only there weren't these great distances we need to put between us and the people we need to talk to.
Brock Clarke
#44. There are two great rules of life: never tell everything at once.
Ken Venturi
#46. Everything was too sharp and clear, so that I could never tell where to start- the way a map that shows too much can sometimes be useless.
Haruki Murakami
#47. My friends tell me that I have a tendency to point out problems without offering solutions, but they never tell me what I should do about it.
Daniel M. Gilbert
#48. There is no right way to go on an edible journey. You can never tell what is going to be great, so you have to try everything. If you become doctrinaire about sticking to lowbrow foods or epicurean delights, your just being an extremist, and it won't do you any good.
Adam Richman
#49. A plastic surgeon should never tell anybody to age gracefully. Rather his motto should be to make people age youthfully.
Jas Kohli
#50. They never tell you about that either. How the hardest thing a mother has to do is give her child up, let them go, watch them run.
Jackie Kay
#51. Regardless of your religious beliefs, you should never tell a mourning mother that it was "God's plan." For some people, that can be worse than saying nothing at all. For a non-believer, the words that are meant to console a religious person can do quite the opposite.
David G. McAfee
#52. I can never tell when something is funny. I just have to do it onstage and find out.
Margaret Cho
#54. A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.
Henry Adams
#55. Never tell anyone that you're writing a book, going on a diet, exercising, taking a course, or quitting smoking. They'll encourage you to death.
Lynn Johnston
#56. What they never tell you about grief is that missing someone is the simple part.
Gail Caldwell
#57. Others can give you a name or a number, but they can never tell you who you really are. That is something you yourself can only discover from within.
Thomas Merton
#58. The thing I hate most about skeletons is you can never tell when they're smiling.
Stephen Blackmoore
#59. Never tell all you know - not even to the person you know best.
Agatha Christie
#61. Fanaticism? No. Writing is exciting and baseball is like writing. You can never tell with either how it will go ...
Marianne Moore
#62. Never tell a young person that anything cannot be done. God may have been waiting centuries for someone ignorant enough of the impossible to do that very thing.
G. M. Trevelyan
#63. People who were raised on The Bible can never tell the difference between a warning and an advertisement.
George Hammond
#64. The unhappiest moment I could never tell you. All our fights blend into each other and are in fact re-enactments of the same fight, in which we punish each other
I with words, Hugh with silence
for being each other. We never needed any more than that.
Alice Munro
#65. One must never tell a child what it is they should display acting.
Asghar Farhadi
#66. We need a place, just for us. It could be so secret that we would never tell anyone in the whole world about it. It might be a whole secret country, and you and I could be the rulers of it.
Katherine Paterson
#67. George Washington, who said to his father, Dad, if I never tell I lie, how am I ever gonna become President? Never got a dinner!
Red Buttons
#68. Taking on the media is something I would never tell a candidate to do. I'd advise him what I would do in that circumstance, but that's about it.
Roger Ailes
#69. I never yell, I never tell, but I'm grateful as hell.
Benny Hill
#70. Never tell a man all about yourself, it's bound to lead to trouble.
Sophie Kinsella
#72. My deepest feeling about politicians is that they are dangerous lunatics to be avoided when possible and carefully humored; people, above all, to whom one must never tell the truth.
W. H. Auden
#73. Until what? Foolish woman, will holding it secret in our heart make it any less true? If you never tell, never speak of it, will it become only a dream, less than a dream, a nightmare half-remembered? Oh, if only the gods would be so good.
George R R Martin
#74. [In the mines] Sometimes a man just walked over the edge [to his death] for no reason at all, or because he was unhappy and did not want to live anymore. You could never tell; there are many sadnesses in the heart of men who are far away from their countries.
Alexander McCall Smith
#75. Jimmy says he'll never tell a lie. Well, I lie all the time. I have to - to balance the family ticket.
Lillian Gordy Carter
#76. There are two rules for sucess:
1. Never tell everything you know.
Roger H. Lincoln
#77. Dad taught me everything I know, but he would never tell me anything he knew.
Al Unser Jr.
#78. If you ever meet an actor who's the child of actors, they'll never tell you that they wanted to be a star. But what I did realise early on was that I just wanted to be in that tribe.
Jack Davenport
#79. He remembered lesson #76.5 from Man Decorum 101: Never tell a smart, pissed-off female what to do. Ask her. Nicely. Preferably with roses in hand.
Stephanie Rowe
#80. Humans would never tell the simple truth when a lie was available ...
Karen Traviss
#81. She can never tell him what she started to say: that we come to love those who save us. For although Anna does believe this is true, the word that stuck in her throat was not save but shame.
Jenna Blum
#82. We teach teens what we think they ought to know, and we never tell them what they want to know.
Sue Johanson
#83. Never tell your wife she's bad in bed. She'll go out and get a second opinion.
Rodney Dangerfield
#84. Never tell anyone to be careful, never ask what that noise was, and for the love of God, never, ever say that you'll be right back. - Evelyn Baker
Seanan McGuire
#85. You can never tell you the mountain will allow and who it will not.
Roland Smith
#86. You should never tell someone they have a nice dimple, because maybe they were shot in the face with a BB gun.
Mitch Hedberg
#87. I don't know how to tell a joke. I never tell jokes. I can tell stories that happened to me ... anecdotes. But never a joke.
Lucille Ball
#88. i never told the truth so i can never tell a lie...
Tom Waits
#89. Never trust a mirror,' his mother had told him. 'They never tell the truth unless you make them.
Isobelle Carmody
#90. Satan will often tell us what is true, but will never tell us the truth.
Kelly Minter
#92. Publishers never tell writers anything. They're all crazy and they drive me crazy.
Anne Bernays
#93. I will never tell anyone when I feel bad again. I will never confide a weakness. It does not work. It makes things worse.
Caitlin Moran
#94. Grades don't measure tenacity, courage, leadership, guts or whatever you want to call it. Teachers or any other persons in a position of authority should never tell anybody they will not succeed because they did not get all A's in school.
Thomas J. Stanley
#95. I'm always afraid of hurting someone. But if I never tell them anything, I hurt myself more.
Lisa M. Cronkhite
#96. Oh I can't explain. When I like people immensely I never tell their names to any one. It is like surrendering a part of them. I have grown to love secrecy. It seems to be the one thing that can make modern life mysterious or marvellous to us. The commonest thing is delightful if one only hides it.
Oscar Wilde
#97. If there was one thing she'd learned in this business, it was to never tell a client you couldn't do something.
Timothy Zahn
#98. There are people that I didn't like, but I saw them suffer and it changed me. I promised myself that I would never tell a lie, never hurt another human being, and I would try to make the world as positive as I could.
Jack Kirby
#99. I wouldn't tell you anything about anybody I cared about because it becomes entertainment for other people, and it sort of just cheapens everything in your life. I would never tell you if I was dating anybody.
Kristen Stewart
#100. If you surround yourself with the wrong people, if you surround yourself with people that constantly tell you how great you are and never tell you the truth and just tell you what you want to hear, I would imagine it would be very easy to get above yourself.
Johnny Reid
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