Tell Me Truth Quotes

#1. I prefer to believe that people are good and honest and respect me enough to tell me the truth. It's not easy to find those people all the time, but they're out there.

Ellen DeGeneres

#2. To tell the truth will make me loathsome in your eyes.
Even more than I already am.
I pledge to give you all the truth that's in me.
And you want me to tell you this.

Julie Berry

#3. What do you believe in ?"
"People's sufferings, and the fact that it is abominable. One should do everything to abolish it. To tell you the truth, nothing else seems to me of any importance.

Simone De Beauvoir

#4. When in doubt, tell the truth. That maxim I did invent, but never expected it to be applied to me. I did say, "When you are in doubt," but when I am in doubt myself I use more sagacity.

Mark Twain

#5. I need a spiritual connection - I can make changes, but I can't make miracles - and I need people around me who'll support me and believe in me and tell me the truth and not let me deceive myself into avoiding the what's scary and hard and necessary.

Victoria Moran

#6. Don't try to tell me it's because I'm scared, because the truth is the only time I'm not terrified is when I'm with you.

Donna Grant

#7. But why tell me?" Fireheart repeated. "Perhaps after so long I want a cat to know the truth," meowed Bluestar with a slight frown. "I think you of all cats might understand, Fireheart. Sometimes there are no right choices.

Erin Hunter

#8. For me, I don't feel it is a success in the career to be the pretty woman; career success comes from being characters who tell us something about the truth.

Emmanuelle Beart

#9. To tell the truth, I'd scare me too.

Jethro Tull

#10. Even now, I have to smile when I think of this. I tell you, of all the things about Werner Vetter that appealed to me, this most of all warmed my heart: He had no respect for the truth in Nazi Germany.

Edith Hahn Beer

#11. I read less and less. I have not forgiven books for their failure to tell me the truth and make me happy.

Mason Cooley

#12. It's cool to have parents and family who will always tell me the truth no matter what. They'll tell me if I'm doing something stupid!

Jordin Sparks

#13. People are always warning me that I'm going to burn out. But the truth is, the only thing that tires me out is hearing people tell me that. Opposite shows, opposite coasts, opposite demographics, opposite everything - I love it, man!

Michael Strahan

#14. You need to see what the actor needs. This one wants to be talked to privately. That one doesn't mind if you block it for them. Just tell me the truth and I'll adapt to it.

Penny Marshall

#15. Coop kissed me deeply, drawing my breath from me in a long, sweet ribbon. "Perhaps I haven't mentioned it, but I'm an expert when it comes to first steps."
Are you," I said. "Then tell me how."
You close your eyes," Coop answered, "and jump.

Jodi Picoult

#16. It's easy to tell someone something you know they want to hear. What's not so easy is following up on those easy words and making what you said come to life. It's in taking the words and turning them into actions where most people give up and bail out.

Melyssa Winchester

#17. When someone refuses to tell me a certain piece of information, it only makes me that much more determined to find out the truth. I hate being ignorant. For me, a question unanswered is like a thorn in my side

Christopher Paolini

#18. The Republican National Committee hired me, and they hired me because they wanted someone who could look members straight in the eye and tell them the truth.

Frank Luntz

#19. The Gold Glove surprised me a little. To tell you the truth, I didn't expect it. I feel I played at the top of my game, but I was new to the league and I didn't think that many people would vote for me.

Omar Vizquel

#20. Every religion in the world has denounced every other religion as a fraud. That proves to me that they all tell the truth - about others.

Robert Green Ingersoll

#21. There is no curse on me, Tessa. The demon tricked me. There never was a curse. All these years, I've been a fool. But not so much a fool that I didn't know that the first thing I needed to do once I had learned the truth was tell you how I really felt

Cassandra Clare

#22. When I was very little, my mother used to say there was something of my grandmother in me, in how I tell stories the way I need them to be and not the way they actually happened.

Danielle Evans

#23. I felt his hardness and I suddenly understood-an older girl would have understood long before-that this was the currency of desire. He was my betrothed. he desired me. I desired him. All I had to do was tell him the truth.

Philippa Gregory

#24. When you're on stage, unless you surrender to the moment, you're not telling the truth. I look for people that tell me the truth.

David Sanborn

#25. He say, Celie, tell me the truth. You don't like me cause I'm a man?
I blow my nose. take off they pants, I say, and men look like frogs to me. No matter how you kiss 'em, as far as I'm concern, frogs is what they stay.

Alice Walker

#26. You ask me, and I'll tell you the truth - anything out of people's usual expectations throws them off track.

J.A. Redmerski

#27. The first one, the one from the greenspace near the game center, the one who told me everything would be all right and nothing would change with my Match. Did she lie to me? Or did she tell the truth, and my choices made a lie of her words?

Ally Condie

#28. Colonel: Tell me what is the T.R.U.T.H, Doctor!
Doctor: Total.Reveal.Using.Therapeutic.Hologram

Toba Beta

#29. I'll tell you what I want. Magic! Yes, yes, magic! I try to give that to people. I misinterpret things to them. I don't tell the truth. I tell what ought to be truth. And if that is sinful, then let me be damned for it! - Don't turn the light on!

Tennessee Williams

#30. Cruel', O'Kelly laughed, 'it's cruel to tell children the truth. If anything convinces me of God's mercy, then it's his gift of making us unable to lie.

Yevgeny Zamyatin

#31. I dedicate this to all those who did not live to tell it. And may they please forgive me for not having seen it all nor remembered it all, for not having divined all of it - from The Gulag Archipelago

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#32. I go with the most interesting thing that comes my way,I don't expect it to come from India to tell you the truth, but if it did, fine by me.

Christoph Waltz

#33. I could tell myself that I'm doing it because she'll get back to her feet just to spite me - but the truth is, I really just want to piss her off. Keeping her moving is a bonus.

Amie Kaufman

#34. I want to be distinguished from the rest; to tell the truth, a friend to all mankind is not a friend for me.

Moliere

#35. I'm going to tell the truth. No more lies, no more hiding, no more running, no more bullshit. I'm going to put everything out in the open, and then we'll see. If he can't love me then, so be it.

Paula Hawkins

#36. I did two films that have a great following. One is 'Caddyshack,' one is 'Tron.' To tell you the truth, most people don't know that it's me in both films.

Cindy Morgan

#37. The same principle that forbids me to lie does not allow me to tell the truth.

Giacomo Casanova

#38. Do not be angry with me if I tell you the truth

Socrates

#39. To tell the truth we should not exist. We, not any collective plural, just you and me.

Czeslaw Milosz

#40. I am carrying out my plan, so long formulated, of keeping a journal. What I most keenly wish is not to forget that I am writing for myself alone. Thus I shall always tell the truth, I hope, and thus I shall improve myself. These pages will reproach me for my changes of mind.

Eugene Delacroix

#41. Tell me the truth about death. I don't know what it is. We have them, then they are gone but they stay in our minds. Their stories are part of us as long as we live and as long as we tell them or write them down.

Ellen Gilchrist

#42. Listen to me. I will tell you the truth about a man's life. I will tell you the truth about his love for women.

Mario Puzo

#43. The distinctive feature of my family was intolerance of sensitivity and emotion - 'Everything's great, it all has to be great all the time and why do you have to spoil it?' Whereas probably the most fundamental and important thing to me has been defending my right to tell the truth about how I feel.

Rachel Cusk

#44. What interests me is the experience of ordinary people. To tell you the truth, although I can repeat certain dates, statistics, and so on, what I am really curious about is what happens to ordinary men, women, and children in extraordinary times.

Jacqueline Winspear

#45. Well, as Auden wondered: Will it come like a change in the weather? Will its greeting be courteous or rough? Will it alter my life altogether? O tell me the truth about love.

Stephen Fry

#46. Something inside Clary cracked and broke, and words came pouring out. 'What do you want me to tell you? The truth? The truth is that I love Simon like I should love you, and I wish he was my brother and you weren't, but I can't do anything about that and neither can you!

Cassandra Clare

#47. A lot of young women ask me, 'Can you go into politics and maintain your ideals?' Well, I think you can. You might not, in any one interview, tell the whole truth, but to deliberately deceive the public who've elected you is totally unacceptable.

Joan Kirner

#48. Tell me why you're so hard to forget. Don't remind me, I'm not over it. Tell me why, I can't seem to face the truth, I'm just a little too not over you.

David Archuleta

#49. I don't tell the truth any more to those who can't make use of it. I tell it mostly to myself, because it always changes me.

Anais Nin

#50. The bathroom mirror has not budged, the woman who lives there can tell the truth from the stuff they say and looks me in the eye- says do you prefer the easy way? No? Well ok then, dont cry.

Ani DiFranco

#51. Tell me a truth, Senna."
"I don't know how."
"Then tell me a lie."
"I don't love you."
"The truth is for the mind," he says. "Lies are for the heart. So let's just keep lying.

Tarryn Fisher

#52. Liberals should not overplay this weapons of mass destruction card, because you want me to tell you the truth? Most of us are not going to care if they don't find these weapons of mass destruction. It's enough for a lot of us to see those kids smiling on that street again.

Dennis Miller

#53. All my life I wanted somebody who knew more than I did to tell me the truth.

S.E. Hinton

#54. To tell you the truth, sleepless nights are as unusual for me as sumo wrestlers who look good in berets.

Haruki Murakami

#55. It's our hearts that tell us the truth of things, honey, and my heart has never betrayed me. Not ever.

Beth Hoffman

#56. We shake hands and part good comrades. But I have to get out of here, good fellows or no good fellows. Too much fellow feeling makes me nervous, to tell the truth.

Walker Percy

#57. Teachers, let me tell you, are born deceivers of the lowest sort, since what they want from life is impossible - time-freed, existential youth forever. It commits them to terrible deceptions and departures from the truth. And literature, being lasting, is their ticket.

Richard Ford

#58. Dreams like a podcast,
Downloading truth in my ears.
They tell me cool stuff."
"Apollo?" I guess, because I figured nobody else could make a haiku that bad.
He put his finger to his lips. "I'm incognito. Call me Fred."
"A god named Fred?

Rick Riordan

#59. The truth is there's always been someone to tell me what to do. The church. The people who I work for. The caseworker. And I can't stand the idea of being alone. I can't bear the thought of being free.
Survivor

Chuck Palahniuk

#60. I tell you, lad, that men will believe is one says, "The Gods say ... " They will believe if one says, "I had a Vision ... " They will believe if one says, "It was told me on a tablet of hidden gold ... " But, if one says, "History teaches," then they will not believe.

Sheri S. Tepper

#61. I am not afraid of the truth, if any one could tell it me, but I am afraid of parts of it impertinently uttered.

Robert Louis Stevenson

#62. I am simply impressed by the unexpected insights which shower down on me when my job is to imagine, as contrasted with the woodenly familiar ideas which clutter my desk when my job is to tell the truth.

Kurt Vonnegut

#63. Tell me you're truth. I'm listening.

Truth Devour

#64. An undeniable truth is that while Obama and Pelosi and George Soros and whoever else tell you and me to get off oil, they won't - they're the elites. They're smarter, they're running the world, and they have to be able to get to where they have to go.

Rush Limbaugh

#65. You once said you loved me. Do you still?"
My sister is watching this exchange between us. She smiles warmly at me, giving me the strength to tell him the truth. "I never stopped loving you. Even when I tried desperately to forget you. I couldn't.

Simone Elkeles

#66. I wasn't mean; I wasn't evil. I was nice. And let me tell you, a hesitant man is the last thing in the world a woman needs. She needs a lover and a warrior, not a Really Nice Guy.

John Eldredge

#67. I [Jesus] tell you the truth, those who listen to my message and believe in God who sent me have eternal life. They will never be condemned for their sins, but they have already passed from death into life.

Anonymous

#68. Let me tell you what the truth is ... I have learned one thing in life: there is no such thing as bad press. There is not. That's a fundamental truth. The more bad things said about you, the more power they give to you.

John McAfee

#69. So yes I know how angry, or naive, or self-destructive, or messed up, or even deluded I sound weaving my way through these life stories at times. But beautiful things. Graceful things. Hopeful things can sometimes appear in dark places. Besides, I'm trying to tell you the truth of a woman like me.

Lidia Yuknavitch

#70. I want to live in my truth. Tell me you don't like me, and I know it. But when you don't tell me, and you work behind my back, it's a lie, and I don't know how to fight that.

Lee Daniels

#71. Smartass Disciple: Master, I feel really really confused about the truth.
Master of Stupidity: Only confused? Walk in my shoes then you tell me.

Toba Beta

#72. People want biography. People want memoir. They want you to tell them that the story you're telling them is true. The thing I'm telling you is true, but it did not always happen to me.

Dorothy Allison

#73. I am amazed about how everyone wants to know about my love life. They whisper to me, 'Tell me the truth? Is it true?' Who cares? Because we have this job, we are to say to everybody what we do, or with whom we sleep? It's a bit absurd, but that's why everybody lies so much.

Penelope Cruz

#74. Come little cottage girl, you seem to want my cup of tea; and will you take a little cream? Now tell the truth to me!

Barry Pain

#75. To tell you the truth, there are all these websites predicting my early death, and it's starting to work on me!

Artie Lange

#76. Thing is, I don't really like free time. People are always warning me that I'm going to burn out. But the truth is, the only thing that tires me out is hearing people tell me that.

Michael Strahan

#77. Truth is in the eye of the beholder, Doctor, I never tell the truth because I don't believe there is such a thing ... " "You're not going to tell me." "But you don't need me to tell you, Doctor,., if you'll just notice the details. They're scattered like crumbs ...

Andrew J. Robinson

#78. I told you the truth at the bridge. I don't have a good excuse. Blame it on a bad mood." Tate dips his chin, and his grin shoots my heart to the ceiling. "If I tell you I'm sorry a hundred more times, will you forgive me? 'Cause I'll do it, if that's what it takes.

Jennifer Archer

#79. I knew enough about adults to know that if did tell them what had happened, I would not be believed. Adults rarely seemed to believe me when I told the truth anyway.

Neil Gaiman

#80. Yet in the midst of all their prosperity, princes in this respect seem to me most unfortunate, because, having no one to tell them truth, they are forced to receive flatterers for friends.

Erasmus

#81. I have discovered the art of deceiving diplomats. I tell them the truth and they never believe me.

Camillo Di Cavour

#82. It amused me to think that one can tell the truth when one is drunk and nobody will believe it.

Francoise Sagan

#83. Tell me the truth, Italian. You don't like it because it's strong. You like it because it's illegal.

Beppe Severgnini

#84. People ask me all the time why I write. I do realize that one day I will have to answer this question, most likely in front of a large crowd. But how do you tell the truth when you struggle just to write it? How do you admit that the words are just salve to the things you are too afraid to say?

Kacey Vanderkarr

#85. Tell me there's a chance you could be wrong.
"If there were the slightest chance i could spare you from the pain, I would taken."
And its this-his sincerity-that finally snaps me in half. Because the truth is so unbearable I wish he'd spare me a lie.

Tahereh Mafi

#86. I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mount Sinai.

Orson Welles

#87. This is my truth, tell me yours.

Aneurin Bevan

#88. Let me tell ye in your sleep how much I love you. For there's no so much I can be saying to ye while ye wake, but the same poor words, again and again. While ye sleep in my arms, I can say things to ye that would be daft and silly waking, and your dreams will know the truth of them. Go

Diana Gabaldon

#89. Society tells me to follow my own truth, but I don't let society tell me what to do. If you need someone to tell you that, chances are you're part of the crowd that will move on to the next fashion that comes around.

Criss Jami

#90. I'd like people to like me. I think most of my friends like me! I'm real and I get in trouble for speaking my mind. I will definitely tell you the truth because I have to. I get in trouble that way.

Keith Michael

#91. If I tell you not to follow me, it ain't because I hate you, kiddo.
I just don't want you feel dissapointed ... when seeing the truth.

Toba Beta

#92. Tell the truth, why aren't you going to kill me?"
...
"Because she is.

Elizabeth Hunter

#93. Don't tell me it's raining when you're peeing on me!

Mason Cooley

#94. Fiction is truth. I think fiction is the truest thing there ever was. My whole effort is to remove that distinction. The writer is the midwife of understanding. It's very important for me to tell politics like a story, to make it real.

Arundhati Roy

#95. Too many people looked to me in the eye and did not tell me the truth.

John Major

#96. She told me she loved me. She told me a lot of things. Some of those things were true, and some of those may or may not have been true. It's kind of hard to tell, because to be honest, I wasn't listening.

Dark Jar Tin Zoo

#97. All I could say was, "I don't know what to do." I remember her taking me by the shoulders and looking me in the eye with a calm smile and saying simply, "Tell the truth, tell the truth, tell the truth.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#98. You want people who are both great fans and supporters and believers of your work and people who are also ruthlessly honest. People who will tell you the truth about it. Over the years I've picked up some friends and I know who to show what to and they'll give me the proper read.

Rob Bell

#99. I could tell you the truth about me ... but to seduce you, I will tell you the truth about you ...

Zan Perrion

#100. I didn't know how I was supposed to tell her things like love and forever, and it struck me just then that I didn't want to. That sort of truth was something that you had to earn.

Maggie Stiefvater