Top 100 Tell Someone Quotes
#1. Tell someone you are going to rob them and all that will happen is that you'll get a reputation as a truthful man.
Terry Pratchett
#2. Why should anyone - the state, the medical profession, or anyone else - presume to tell someone else how much suffering they must endure as their life is ending?
Marcia Angell
#3. Hypocrisy
/hi pakrise/ noun
1. The moment you tell someone it is not important to be right, in order to look right to everyone else.
Shannon L. Alder
#4. I swear. Tell someone you're a vampire or a werewolf and they think it's sexy. Tell someone you're a witch and they go from zero to Torquemada in three seconds flat.
Laura Oliva
#5. It takes a moment to tell someone you love them, but it takes a lifetime to prove it.
Erich Fromm
#6. The art of diplomacy is often to tell someone you want to be their best friend, but failing that, you might have to destroy them. It's kind of like Christianity. Congressman Lance Boyd.
Jayden Hunter
#7. It felt like they were telling each other secrets. Everything they said felt like that - whispered, tender, full of other meanings, like when you tell someone a dream or talk about your astrological signs as code for all the things you love about each other.
Francesca Lia Block
#8. It's critical - that the people that are benefiting today from Medicare and Social Security that they not see benefit reductions. It's awfully hard to tell someone who might be 82, that they've gotta go back to work, because their benefits are gonna be chopped. That's not gonna happen.
Fred Upton
#9. You can tell someone to stop saying nasty things about your best friend a hundred times," she mused over a forkful of pasta. "But you only have to rip their tongue out once.
Craig Schaefer
#10. If you lie to a person at least tell someone else you've lied to the truth. It balances out your karma.
Dane Cook
#11. You should never tell someone they have a nice dimple, because maybe they were shot in the face with a BB gun.
Mitch Hedberg
#12. I'd die for you. You know that. But would I kill someone innocent? What about a lot of innocent lives? What about the whole world? Is it really love to tell someone that if it came down to picking between them and every other life on the planet, you'd pick them?
Cassandra Clare
#13. That's Irish diplomacy for you.
Huh?
The ability to tell someone to go to hell and make them happy to be going.
Gabrielle Evans
#14. Tell someone you love them today, because life is short, but shout it at them in German, because life is also terrifying and confusing.
Anonymous
#15. Overcommunicate. It's better to tell someone something they already know than to not tell them something they needed to hear.
Alex Irvine
#16. You should never have to tell someone you are a Christian. They should know by the way you treat them.
Tom Krause
#17. You can tell me anything, you know."
"Even a bad thing?"
"Of course, even a bad thing. And you know, when you tell someone else a bad thing, it breaks in half, so that you're only carrying a small bit of it.
Dawn Kurtagich
#18. She'd let me in, and for the first time, I actually wanted to do the same, to tell someone the truth. That I wasn't normal. That I wasn't human.
Jennifer Lynn Barnes
#19. You should read the novel in order to live, to feel, to tell someone the hidden secret of it.
Read as if its your story, search your character in it.
You should never read a book, if you feel ashamed of telling its story ...
Respect book or never read it.
Emma Brynstein
#20. The part she hated most in mystery novels was where someone had a key piece of information but didn't tell anyone. That was always the precise moment that got conked on the head and thrown into a ditch. Obviously she had to tell someone, and quickly.
India Drummond
#21. What I've learned is, what people want is to tell someone, anyone, their problems.
Danila Botha
#22. If I can tell someone a story that makes them bend over and laugh, that's bigger than anything else.
Bernie Mac
#23. 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
#24. If I couldn't get published tomorrow I'd still be writing. It's something to do with feeling so overwhelmed by this experience of life that you have to tell someone about it, and in a way that reorders the experience to make it manageable.
Graham Joyce
#25. If you tell someone you're doing something innovative, they'll think you're doing something innovative.
Grimes
#26. When I went to Bosnia, I was there to tell someone else's story and I was more methodical.
Joe Sacco
#27. He always said that when you had something difficult to tell someone, the best thing to do was to start with the hardest thing you could imagine telling that person.
Ingrid Seymour
#28. Secrecy has many advantages, for when you tell someone the purpose of any object right away, they often think there is nothing to it.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#29. Above all, enjoy one another's company. We never know when we'll be able to tell someone "I love you" again - say it often.
Chris Kluwe
#30. I've always wanted an office job so I can tell someone, "I'm going to take a long lunch," or "I'm out of the office." I don't know why, but I've always seen so much stability in clocking in.
SZA
#31. You're in love with me? Why have you never said anything?" He demanded.
"No one wants to tell someone she loves him, and have him not say it back," her eyes dropped and she said it so softly he had to strain to hear it.
Laura Hunsaker
#32. I'm not from Indianapolis, but I like living in Indianapolis. If I were to explain it, I'd tell someone to imagine a city that perfectly captures the best and the worst of America. Imagine the truly American city, because that's what it is.
John Green
#33. It's always difficult to tell someone when they're still in love with someone that I think they're going in the wrong way.
Pascal Chaumeil
#34. The most ridiculous part is, in any other faction it would be brave of us to tell someone what happened. But here ... in Dauntless ... bravery won't do us any good.
Veronica Roth
#35. It's a strange product of infatuation, she thinks. To want to tell someone about mundane things. The awareness of another person suddenly sharpens your senses, so that the little things come into focus and the world seems more beautiful and complicated.
Alexis M. Smith
#37. And he'd definitely never expected to ever have to tell someone, "All right, no killing and eating me, okay? I'm ready to go.
S.J. Kincaid
#38. Not for the first time, I longed to tell someone that I was one of them, a sympathizer with the Left, a revolutionary fighting for peace, equality, democracy, freedom, and independence, all the noble things my people had died for and I had hid for.
Viet Thanh Nguyen
#39. The most heroic thing you can do is tell someone that you love them.
Jacques Audiard
#40. You don't tell someone who's mentally ill or struggling, who's having a low time in their lives, to harden up, because it doesn't work.
John Kirwan
#41. You can't tell someone to pursue their dream only if it's a good match for your own. You can't dictate what dream he should pursue.
Catherine Ryan Hyde
#42. They never predict anything fun," Granuaile answered. "Just once I'd like to hear a prophet tell someone, 'Thou shalt win a bitchin' Camaro on a game show.
Kevin Hearne
#43. Sarcasm is when you tell someone the truth by lying on purpose.
Chuck Klosterman
#44. I've definitely been in situations where I could tell someone was interested in me, but I could tell they were insulting me in some passive/aggressive way, so I felt bad about myself at the same time.
Noah Baumbach
#45. If you have to tell someone they call the shots, they're not really calling the shots.
Lisa Kleypas
#46. Being powerful is a lot like being a woman: If you have to tell someone that you are, invariably, you are not.
Margaret Thatcher
#48. For a moment, I debated whether I should tell someone about the words I'd started writing down, but I couldn't. In a way, I felt ashamed, even though my writing was the one thing that whispered okayness in my ear. I didn't speak it, to anyone.
Markus Zusak
#49. I'm good at keeping secrets, but if it's not something super serious I usually tell people not to tell me because I'll tell someone else.
Steven Yeun
#50. I want to talk. I actually want to tell someone what I feel. I want to tell her, but I can't. I don't do that. I don't confide. I don't vent. I don't share. I don't trust anyone, ever.
Sarah Ann Walker
#51. If you're 15 and you tell someone a secret, they can put it up on Facebook. If you make a mistake, someone films it on their mobile and puts it up on YouTube. When you're 15, you deserve privacy.
Patrick Ness
#52. You cannot tell someone, "You are my enemy," and then blame them for believing you.
J.M. Berger
#53. The hardest thing for a chief executive to do is to tell someone that they don't have a job anymore.
Carly Fiorina
#54. Do not tell someone you are hungry if, whenever they feed you, you do not eat.
Criss Jami
#55. I figured I would have to tell someone to kiss my ass before it was all over, and I have
twice.
Billy Bob Thornton
#56. What you didn't tell someone was just as debilitating as what you did.
Jodi Picoult
#57. I ask you, what is the proper etiquette? Do you tell someone their breast is rolling around on their stomach like a cantaloupe in a plastic grocery bag, or do you wait until they notice?
Skip Clark
#58. 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
#59. I still don't even know if the sheriff will let me see him. And suppose he did; what then? What do I say to him? Do I know what a man is? Do I know how a man is supposed to die? I'm still trying to find out how a man should live. Am I supposed to tell someone how to die who has never lived?
Ernest Gaines
#60. You can tell someone who doesn't have love in their life, then someone who is in love.
Janet Jackson
#61. I don't like a kind of workshop that is about editing
I don't want to sit there and be an editor. I don't want to tell someone how to "fix" a poem.
Natasha Trethewey
#62. Sometimes you tell someone to never call you again; and then the phone rings and you hope it's them - it's the most twisted logic of all time.
John Mayer
#63. You can't tell someone they are wrong about their own life.
Danny Boyle
#64. An old gunslinger once told me that you never draw a gun unless you intend to use it, and you never - ever - tell someone you are going to draw your gun. You just do it.
Michael Scott
#65. This is England," he explained. "Tell someone it's a procedure, and they'll believe you. The pointless procedure is one of our great natural resources.
Maureen Johnson
#66. I wanted to tell you everything. And that hurt because some things were too scary. Some things even I didn't understand. How could I tell someone - someone I was really talking to for the first time - everything I was thinking? I couldn't. It was too soon.
Jay Asher
#67. ... it is easier to tell someone closer to you before you tell your partner.
Anna Bell
#68. After a day of watching the two-legs interact from within their midst, she was certain that they could talk as well as any wolf. Unlike wolves, however, they mostly used their mouths, a thing she found limiting. How could you tell someone to keep away from your food when your own mouth was full?
Jane Lindskold
#69. Tell someone a story, and you capture their imagination. Make someone laugh, and you capture their friendship. Bring a tear to their eye with poignant grace, and you capture their heart. But never, never attempt to capture someone's spirit. That is theirs, and theirs alone.
Pen
#70. If you really want to tell someone you love them, you don't just go and blurt it out. There's a dance. And your movie does that.
Cary Fukunaga
#71. When I first went into the active Army, you could tell someone to move a chair across the room. Now you have to tell them why.
Robert Lembke
#72. The best way to divulge a secret is to tell someone not to say anything about it.
Charles Fleischer
#73. Reach out, share your truth, tell someone, "This is who I am. This is what I stand for. Hold me to it." Often, we'll do far more for another than we will do for ourselves.
Kamal Ravikant
#74. I don't believe that bureaucrats in Washington should tell someone whether they can use contraceptives or not. And I don't believe employers should tell someone whether they could have contraceptive care of not. Every woman in America should have access to contraceptives.
Mitt Romney
#75. I guess that's just how people are. We take for granted that we'll always have the chance to tell someone what they mean to us. We take for granted that nothing is going to happen to them, and so we all walk around not realizing how much we're loved. How much we're valued.
Debra Dockter
#76. Tact is the ability to tell someone to go to hell in such a way that they look forward to the trip.
Winston S. Churchill
#77. 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
#78. When youre touring and the minute you tell someone that youre from Jersey its the equivalent of telling them you just got out of jail.
Gerard Way
#79. If you have a secret and tell someone everyone will know. You can only keep a secret if you don't tell anyone.
Benjamin Franklin
#80. And I think that if I started to tell someone how I felt I'd never be able to stop so it's easier just to not feel anything because that way there's no issue.
Cecily Anne Paterson
#81. HOw did you tell someone the truth when you weren't even sure what that was?
Stacia Kane
#82. How do you tell someone she has to learn to love herself and her own body before she can be loved or love?
Azar Nafisi
#83. It's not given even to the greatest writers to tell someone else's story.
Marty Rubin
#84. If you like a book you read, tell someone. If you hate it, tell em harder.
J.D. Mader
#85. We never want to tell someone we love them unless we really mean it." "Because love is forever and always.
Karen Kingsbury
#86. When I was little, I had to write down what I wanted to be when I grew up, and I wrote, 'I want to be an actress-singer-dancer because you can be a rich fairy princess and tell someone off.'
Ellen Greene
#87. I knew I wasn't making sence, but I couldn't seem to connect my thoughts to my tongue. That feeling ... How did you tell someone that?
Alexandra Bracken
#88. Children should always be brave and do something about bullying. It's not okay to stand by and let it happen. Bullies thrive off secrecy. Children should tell someone if they see someone being bullied.
Imelda Staunton
#89. I think it is about individuality so I don't have a sense to tell someone they need a makeover. One example I would give is Mariah Carey. She has been the same for so long but I bet she is thinking, "If it ain't broke then don't fix it." She is dated but I love Mariah for that.
Michelle Visage
#90. The moment you tell someone else is the moment you become a whiner and the world's smallest violin starts to play. The truth is, we all have problems; we all go through hardships and pain, and my pain is paradise compared to a lot of people's and I really have no right to whine at all.
J.A. Redmerski
#91. Don't live like there's no tomorrow, that's stupid. But live your life like it's a story that you would want to tell someone else. A little fun, a little exciting, a little sexy, and always off key.
Philip DeFranco
#92. That much he understood now - the compulsion born of secrecy, how silence was its own sort of prison. The relief that came with being able to tell someone, anyone, all those things you were supposed to keep locked up.
Kit Rocha
#93. There is a rule in Heaven that says we cannot tell someone something that might shift the living out of their destiny during their lifetime on earth. People must be led by either their mistakes or by their faith, and this is why they cannot be told certain things ahead of time.
Kate McGahan
#94. Oh my God. I thought I was going to have an aneurysm right there in line. Your hair smells really good? Your hair smells really good? Who did he think he was? James Bond? You don't tell someone their hair smells good. Not in a mall.
Meg Cabot
#95. It's a lot easier to tell someone is drunker than you than it is to tell if they're soberer. The same is true of dumb and smart.
Richard Cahill
#96. It's very difficult to tell someone how to protect themselves from a terrorist attack, whether it occurs in the U.S. or on foreign soil, particularly when you have terrorists with no concern for human life.
Saxby Chambliss
#97. O you
can't tell someone just how lonely he is
Jeramy Dodds
#98. If any group of citizens is uniquely unqualified to tell someone else how to vote, it's those of us who live in the sheltered, privileged arena of celebrity hood ... Trust me, one's view of the world isn't any clearer from the back seat of a limo.
Pat Sajak
#99. I figured managing people was obvious - I'd tell someone what they needed to do and they'd do what I wanted. It turns out that's not the case. It was frustrating at first.
Jon Oringer
#100. You can't just tell someone to trust you..
you gotta show them that they can trust you ...
Michael J Herbert
