Tell You The Truth Quotes

#1. I assure you, if Uncle Henry had stepped out from among the trees in a little copse which borders the path at one place, carrying his head under his arm, I should have been very little more uncomfortable than I was. To tell you the truth, I was rather expecting something of the kind.

M.R. James

#2. And it was so special, and to tell you the truth that's how I feel about the whole thing, I mean when I meet someone that has watched the show, and it has brought such joy to them, it just makes you feel so good.

David Selby

#3. To tell you the truth, I'm shocked, as I travel across this country, at how little people know or don't want to know about HIV/AIDS. There are a lot of people who don't know that HIV is one thing and AIDS is another. Those people just think it's one big old alphabet of a disease.

Sheryl Lee Ralph

#4. I'm not into older guys. To tell you the truth, Richard Gere is not the sexiest man alive, in my book.

Winona Ryder

#5. And the King will say, 'I tell you the truth, when you did it to one of the least of these my brothers and sisters, you were doing it to me!' - MATT 25-40

Jose N. Harris

#6. I'll tell you the truth; I wanted to leave me for Sid Caesar.

Red Buttons

#7. To tell you the truth I love Sam. It's not a movie kind of love either. I just look at her sometimes and I think she is the prettiest and nicest person in the whole world.

Stephen Chbosky

#8. Nothing happens for a week. I don't mean this figuratively like there is a shortage of significant events. I mean that no things occur. Total stasis. It's sort of heavenly, to tell you the truth

John Green

#9. I think the relationship between memory and time is a very deep and tricky one, to tell you the truth. I don't consider memory another sense. I do consider memory that which allows us to think that time flows.

Brian Greene

#10. It always feels good to tell you the truth. If I can't share it with you, it feels like it didn't happen.

Ione Skye

#11. When people don't tell you the truth what they really are saying is they don't value you or their relationship with you enough to be honest.

Shannon L. Alder

#12. I just can't get over how much babies cry. I really had no idea what I was getting into. To tell you the truth, I thought it would be more like getting a cat.

Anne Lamott

#13. I was smart, to tell you the truth. I'm not really bright, but I'm not stupid.

Bobby Vinton

#14. I love you enough to tell you the truth whether you want to hear it or not, but what you do afterward is your choice alone.

Ashley Ormon

#15. Is it important to have an enlightened teacher? No. Yes. If you are an absolute beginner, it really doesn't matter that much, to tell you the truth.

Frederick Lenz

#16. Do you find it easy to get drunk on words?"
"So easy that, to tell you the truth, I am seldom perfectly sober.

Dorothy L. Sayers

#17. I'm not a pretty goalie and I don't ever want to be called one, to tell you the truth.

Ed Belfour

#18. What does politically correct mean? If you're fat, don't ask me if you're fat, because I'm gonna tell you the truth. You're fat.

Charles Barkley

#19. i will always tell you the truth.

Stephenie Meyer

#20. I tell you the truth, a man may not make himself king; only the blessing of him who holds the kingship can elevate a man to that high place. For sovereignty is a sacred trust that may not be bartered or sold; still less may it be stolen or taken by force.

Stephen R. Lawhead

#21. A lot of people are afraid to tell you the truth in this business. Yes, you're going to have to suck a lot of dick. Yes, double penetration makes your ass look fat. Yes, that does look diseased. But I've always tried to be a straight shooter.

Jill Myles

#22. A true friend will tell you the truth to your face - not behind your back.

Sasha Azevedo

#23. It's not the people in your life that tell you what you want to hear, it's the people in your life that tell you the truth that count.

Derek Preston

#24. To tell you the truth, I thought I would be returning kicks and punts my whole career. I thought that was going to be my deal, and I was fine with that.

Wes Welker

#25. You must have respect for those who tell you the truth about you, no matter how hard it is

Anil Sinha

#26. It's not that he doesn't love you enough to tell you the truth," she said. "It's that he loves you too much to risk it.

Jodi Picoult

#27. The best thing I can do is tell you the truth, or at least, what I think is the truth.

Victoria Aveyard

#28. Cigarettes, cigarettes were much tougher. Booze was tough And I had a real drinking problem before as we discovered in the hospital really, but the cigarettes are much tougher and to tell you the truth.

Joe Eszterhas

#29. That guy was a mystery wrapped in an enigma and crudely stapled to a ticking fucking time bomb. He was either going to hit somebody or start a blog. To tell you the truth I'm kind of glad he hit you.

Lev Grossman

#30. If I could act like This was my real life, And not some cage where I've been placed, Well then, I could tell you The truth like I used to And not be afraid of sounding fake.

Conor Oberst

#31. Humans will always tell you the story. Dogs can only tell you the truth. Trust your instincts and listen your dog.

Cesar Millan

#32. There's a lot of other movies I like, but I don't even pay attention to directors to tell you the truth.

Jason Mewes

#33. My friends seem much more excited about my doing Anastasia than Brainstorm ... and to tell you the truth, I feel the same way.

Natalie Wood

#34. Just so you know, the authors lie when they say it tastes sweet and salty. I will tell you the truth, it is slimy, gooey and thick. Yes, thick. Gross, but I did it for Jake, my husband, the love of my life.

Victoria Andrews

#35. Peter held up the book he had been reading: 'Moby-Dick; or, The Whale'.
"To tell you the truth, I'm not even sure this is English," Peter said. "It's taken me most of today to get through a page.

Justin Cronin

#36. I think 80 percent of the population are really great, caring people who will help you and tell you the truth. That's just the way it is. And I think 20 percent of the population are crooks and liars. It's just a fact.

Tom Hanks

#37. Let me tell you the truth: The truth is what is. And what should be is a fantasy a terrible, terrible lie that someone gave the people long ago.

Lenny Bruce

#38. To tell you the truth - mind, this is strictly between ourselves, please; I shouldn't like your wife to know I said it - the women folk don't understand these things; but between you and me, you know, I think it does a man good to swear.

Jerome K. Jerome

#39. I know I should have been grateful because it was a very nice thing to do. But I wasn't grateful. I wasn't grateful at all. Don't get me wrong. I acted like I was. But I wasn't. To tell you the truth, I was starting to get mad.

Stephen Chbosky

#40. You didn't elect me to tell you what you wanted to hear. You elected me to tell you the truth.

Barack Obama

#41. The absolute heart of loyalty is to value those people who tell you the truth, not just those people who tell you what you want to hear. In fact, you should value them most. Because they have paid you the compliment of leveling with you and assuming you can handle it.

Pat Summitt

#42. If your friends won't tell you the truth, who will?

Julia Roberts

#43. To tell you the truth, it's a complex piece, so I can't really answer your question at present.

Paul Darrow

#44. To tell you the truth, in my work, love is always in opposition to the elements. It creates dilemmas. It brings in suffering. We can't live with it, and we can't live without it. You'll rarely find a happy ending in my work.

Krzysztof Kieslowski

#45. Tell you the truth, Father, I don't think God has a favorite football team, or a favorite

Brad Thor

#46. And by the way, if I always tell you the truth, you might start to believe me.

Victor L. Wooten

#47. I do have a very wonderful mentor, who helps me and reads my work and criticizes me, all the time. You've gotta have those people, who will tell you the truth and help you. You don't want anyone buttering you up. I want someone to tell me what I can fix. That's what I like.

Liana Liberato

#48. When I said I should die in your service with pleasure, I intended to live in it many long years; since, to tell you the truth, from a child I had always a particular dislike to dying, and I think that with every hour the prejudice grows stronger.

Matthew Gregory Lewis

#49. But to tell you the truth, it is the same for me. I am as envious of her as she is of me. But I have seen her rise and rise.

Philippa Gregory

#50. You need not wonder at my knowing all human languages; for, to tell you the truth, I also understand all the secrets of human silence.

Apollonius Of Tyana

#51. I tell you the truth, any object you have in your mind, however good, will be a barrier between you and the inmost Truth.

Meister Eckhart

#52. Let me tell you the truth: I'm 45 years old. I never thought that I would live to see a black president.

Coolio

#53. I came here to tell you the truth, the good, the bad and the ugly.

Oliver North

#54. It's only the dead who'll tell you the truth.

Thomas Adcock

#55. Because to tell you the truth, most of the time dying seems pretty much like my only means of escape

Ellen Hopkins

#56. Don't Ask Me Nothing About Nothing,
I Just Might Tell You the Truth

Bob Dylan

#57. People learn to shop for churches; there is no loyalty to the church. They're consumers being attracted to one product or another. I think it's sacrilege, to tell you the truth, it really is.

Eugene H. Peterson

#58. I don't think I ever expected anything like an Oscar ever, to tell you the truth. That is not my motivation when I do these roles. I really am motivated by being able to work with great people and create a body of work that I can look back and be proud of.

Leonardo DiCaprio

#59. I've worked for 55 years. I'm going to take a little time off, to tell you the truth. It's just that now in the last couple of weeks, Gelman is pouring it on. 'Farewell to Regis!' It's getting embarrassing.

Regis Philbin

#60. Okay, we didn't work, and all the memories to tell you the truth aren't good. But sometimes there were good times.

Junot Diaz

#61. I'll tell you the truth, even in an election year, and that's what people are ready for.

Tom Cotton

#62. To tell you the truth, I don't edit much at all. Most times, when I have finished the first draft, that's the book. Of course, I work on the page I am on until I am happy with it. I might even say that I try to state the landscape.

Per Petterson

#63. I hate talking about music, to tell you the truth.

Brian Eno

#64. Love your enemies-they may tell you the truth.

Jane Heap

#65. My poems getting published in Russia doesn't make me feel in any fashion, to tell you the truth. I'm not trying to be coy, but it doesn't tickle my ego.

Joseph Brodsky

#66. To make a living from doing something I love is fantastic. As long as people want to listen to me, I'll keep doing it. In fact, to tell you the truth, even if no one did want to listen to me, I'd still be doing it!

Steve Winwood

#67. Real friends tell you the truth ... even when you want them to shut up.

Wes Fesler

#68. Sometimes you will hate me because I will tell you the truth about your game. And the truth can hurt/humble you

Doc Rivers

#69. Unless you sit down and talk to your dad and say, 'Why weren't you there?' and he says, 'I'm going to really tell you the truth,' then you won't know.

Dwyane Wade

#70. I did start out in witchcraft to get boys, to tell you the truth.'
'Think I don't know that?'
'What did you start out to get, Esme?'
Granny stopped, and looked up at the frosty sky and then down at the ground.
'Dunno,' she said at last.'Even, I suppose.

Terry Pratchett

#71. To tell you the truth, I've never weighed myself. When somebody asks me my statistics or whatever I honestly don't know.

Helena Christensen

#72. I don't like to think of myself as an insincere person but if I say I love you and I don't mean it then what else am I? Will I cherish you, adore you, make way for you, make myself better for you, look at you and always see you, tell you the truth? And if love is not those things then what things?

Jeanette

#73. 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

#74. I tell you the truth, if you will leave your life based on the whims and caprices of men, you shall be like the corn in popcorn machine

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#75. You simply cannot trust or refer to your experience of your self to tell you what you are, to tell you the truth within.

John De Ruiter

#76. Some artists are nervous - most of them are, to tell you the truth, and they have different ways of exhibiting that. Some of them are boisterous, some are really quiet.

Daryl Hall

#77. I guess I'm pretty much of a lone wolf. I don't say I don't like people at all but, to tell you the truth I only like it then if I have a chance to look deep into their hearts and their minds.

Bela Lugosi

#78. You need people around you who will tell you the truth and not hold anything back.

Nev Schulman

#79. It's been a pretty fun ride, to tell you the truth.

R. Lee Ermey

#80. Can I just tell you the truth? I get asked to do a lot of stuff. And all of the years that people have asked me to do things for the film festival, I couldn't. And so this year, I thought, "Oh, my god, I don't have a day job. If somebody ask me to do something, I'm going to do it."

Oprah Winfrey

#81. Houston, I'd rather have the truth than this ring." "That ring is my promise to tell you the truth, but only when the time is right.

Cassia Leo

#82. To tell you the truth, I hate audiobooks.
But an audiobook is like a fizzy knit cap pulled down over your -

Robin Sloan

#83. Never ask a poet to tell you the truth. We have ten different ways to describe a drink of water, and each is true and all lie.

Max Gladstone

#84. In the grave I can tell you the truth. I am your own Dunia, but I am also a princess of the jinnias or jiniri. The slits in the world are reopening, so I can come back to see you

Salman Rushdie

#85. To tell you the truth, I'm something of an atheist.

Terry Pratchett

#86. You don't need passwords, you don't want to check phones. Sometimes you only want the other person to just tell you the truth!

Manasa Rao

#87. I like the performing. And interviews, even. And the stuff that's not sitting in a room by yourself with empty paper. But I never loved writing, to tell you the truth.

Randy Newman

#88. To tell you the truth, I dislike anything that is in fashion.

Maraso

#89. To tell you the truth, I believe everything - tigers, trees, stones - are sentient in one way or another. You'd never catch me idly kicking a stone, for example.

Mary Oliver

#90. Sometimes, when you don't ask questions, it's not because you are afraid that someone will lie to your face. It's because you're afraid they'll tell you the truth.

Jodi Picoult

#91. As a comedian, I am obligated to tell you the truth, my truth. To share with you my beliefs, my perspective. And I think that we forget sometimes that that's the oath that comics take, that we will go up and share everything - the irreverent, the scary.

Dane Cook

#92. I'll tell you the truth, everything you hear is a lie.

Jeff Shear

#93. Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.

Oscar Wilde

#94. Friend: Someone who will tell you the truth, often mistaken for an enemy.

Matt Haig

#95. I don't know" means "NO!"
"I don't know" means "I'm too cowardly to tell you the truth because I can't deal with confrontation."
"I don't know" means please do the dirty work for me because I don't want to hurt your feelings even more then I already have.

Greg Behrendt

#96. I don't think we're living in great times for movies, to tell you the truth.

Gabriel Byrne

#97. People on the Continent either tell you the truth or lie; in England they hardly ever lie, but they would not dream of telling you the truth.

George Mikes

#98. I tell you the truth, the Son of Man* will return before you have reached all the towns of Israel.

Anonymous

#99. We're all competitors, you know? The player wants to get a hit. The manager wants to win. I want to get it right. To tell you the truth, I just love that competition.

Bruce Froemming

#100. I have to go to her, Lucan. For my own sanity, if nothing else. If I stay here, I'm not sure what good I'd be, to tell you the truth. She's the only thing that's held me together in a very long time. I'm a wreck for this woman, my friend. She owns me now.

Lara Adrian