Top 100 Told You Quotes
#1. A fat lot of good it would do if I told you that Titian's courtesans make you want to caress them. Some day you'll see the Titians for yourself, and if they have no effect on you, then you don't understand the first thing about painting. And I wouldn't be able to help you.
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
#2. I never promised to take you to Europe. I told you we could visit your sister in Texas.
Terri Reid
#4. And she told you something about yourself you really ought to know: that you're beautiful, and worth loving.
Tamora Pierce
#5. Laurie picks up a briefcase and places it on the table. He opens the lid and his head disappears under the top. Oh god. Is he about to introduce me to a cat of nine tails, or some bizarre tickling stick? Brace yourself Liz. Cate told you to always carry your pepper spray, you fool.
LeeAnn Whitaker
#6. We give you the facts. I told you information is power - knowledge is power. We can't be in an ideological battle to redeem the soul of this country if we don't have the facts.
Tavis Smiley
#7. I told you; I am Arianna, the Siren, your Guardian, and how is a Guardian supposed to do her job if she is clueless about the Guardianee?
Erica Sehyun Song
#8. You should be afraid. Very afraid. Before, I told you if you wanted to end things between us, I would let you go, but, Leila"
his voice deepened
"I lied.
Jeaniene Frost
#9. I told you he'd freak out, she siad. didn't i?
ah, the i told you so, jace said. always a classy move
Cassandra Clare
#10. I think children need to be nurtured for what they are as opposed to what you want them to be. I think that's when those ideas come into your head of like, What should I feel in this moment? It's because someone told you, "Your instinct was incorrect." And you're like, Why? Why is that wrong?
Tyler Blackburn
#11. You're not dirty, or bad, or wrong, or anything that ass of a father told you," he whispered, kissing the swell of her breast. "I honestly don't know what you are."
"Ryker, please."
"Except mine.
Rosalie Stanton
#12. Whatever someone told you, you can never be sure of what they said. Whatever someone said, you can never be sure of what you were meant to understand - so if it's really this complicated, what's the point of trying to infer things when you can just ask.
Rebecca Taylor
#13. I told you because I didn't know how not to.
Jodi Picoult
#14. There's nothing I find quite as annoying as the phrase 'I told you so.'
Ayelet Waldman
#15. I could've played basketball, but my mind was on baseball. I didn't know what I was in for. In high school it was a matter of talent. No one told you what to do.
Eric Davis
#16. God's Word is absolutely true. You may not understand how God is going to bring about what He's promised you, but He is keeping every promise that He has ever made. He will never deceive you or disappoint you, and He will never change His mind about what He's told you.
Charles Stanley
#17. I told you what I want. You under me, on top of me, against the wall, on this table, against the sofa. Maybe even on the bed. Should I continue?
Monica La Porta
#18. Remember how I told you that the Vikings sacked my village and took me back with them?" Ranulf was speaking to Vic now; I'd never heard this story before. "All young men among the Vikings were taught to fight."
Vic slowly said, "This is why you kick so much ass at World of Warcraft, isn't it?
Claudia Gray
#19. I told you, God is not coy. He's more likely to hit you across the forehead with a two-by-four than whisper in your ear
Glenn Beck
#22. Why did you throw sand when I just told you not to?"
What child says, "Hmm, why did I? I guess there's no good reason. Thanks for pointing that out. It won't happen again.
Joanna Faber
#23. Man: Has anyone ever told you you're beautiful?
Me: Oh no sir, today is my first day out of doors and papa forbade mirrors in the house lest we fall victim to vanity
Unknown
#24. And I told you, I'm not going to pursue another man's girlfriend. You want to talk honor. There it is in its purest form
Richelle Mead
#25. No. I told you before, I don't even remember coming through the gate. I woke up in thecemetery, my poor wing snapped, my leg broken, beaten like an orphan kid in regency England. I was a pitiful wee creature."
"Um, okay.
Jennifer L. Armentrout
#26. You didn't think you could escape us that easily, did you?" a deep menacing voice taunted in my ear. "I told you that you were the one I was looking for.
Brynn Myers
#27. If something doesn't work, people will say 'we told you so', and if it works, they will come up with a new theory and will conveniently forget what they had said earlier.
Ram Gopal Varma
#28. I was one of those girls that were repeatedly told, "You have such a pretty face." (I suspected that was said to every fat girl.) Translation: If I weren't so fat, I'd be pretty. Gratzi!
Misti D. Mosteller
#29. After all, a girl is ... well, a girl. It's nice to be told you're successful at it.
Rita Hayworth
#30. Who told you that something was wrong with you?
Joel Osteen
#31. Your mother told you all that I could give you was a reputation.
Billy Joel
#32. Do you like him much?'
I told you I liked him a little. Where is the use of caring for him so very much: he is full of faults.'
Is he?'
All boys are.
Charlotte Bronte
#33. Where are the memories that held us together? Where are the dreams that were yet to come? I'm afraid to be happy. I shouldn't be happy. If I'm happy without you does that mean I've told you goodbye?
Donna Lynn Hope
#34. If I told you, you might be forced to lie about it. Not that you aren't really good at it, but why put an old man in that position?
Susan Elizabeth Phillips
#35. You said I told you I was in love with someone else, but I'm not. That's not what I meant. Cassandra was a part of my past, but our time together ended. The only person I want, the only person I love, is you.
Angela Corbett
#36. I'm not like you. I've never cared about keeping relationships or sparing people's feelings. All I've ever cared about is power: how to get it, and how to keep it. I told you as much when we met.
Rachel E. Carter
#37. My most intimate secrets? Well, if I told you those they wouldn't be secrets now, would they? Seriously though I don't have too many secrets. I'm a very open and honest person, sometimes too honest for my own good.
Paul Kane
#38. It's pretty awful being told you're a racist.
Chris Lilley
#39. I stopped opposite the counter and looked back up at him. "Have I told you you're an asshole today?"
"You just got up, so, no."
"You're an asshole."
He grinned again.
Kristen Ashley
#40. Never mind what I told you
you do as I tell you.
W.C. Fields
#41. Darling' there're things I haven't told you yet either, just didn't know how to broach the subject. We can't know everything about each other by writing a few letters and having dinner once." - Chance Holcomb
Caroline Fyffe
#42. I should hardly advise you to go too much by all I've told you. I'm a malicious creature.
Agatha Christie
#43. Envy is resentment of good things that happen to other people. Jealousy increases the importance of the person we wish belonged only to us. Envy, as I told you, is poison, and futile - we want to be the other person. But jealousy is generous - we want the other person to be ours.
Carlos Fuentes
#44. Then Martine said: "So yuo will be poor now all your life, Babette?"
Poor?" said Babette. She smiled as if to herself. "No, I shall never be poor. I told you that I am a great artist. A great artist, Mesdames, is never poor.We have something, Mesdames, of which other people know nothing.
Karen Blixen
#45. Speaking of God, He's real and He's there, too. And don't ask what He looks like because you wouldn't understand even if I told you.
Jodi Picoult
#46. And I told you, 'Honey, you'll know when its right because they'll be your best friend and you'll like kissing them.' And she said, 'But what if I have a girl best friend like Mommy?' And I said, 'Schyler, if you end up with a girl like your mommy then you'll be just as lucky as I am.
Avon Gale
#47. I told you forever ago that I wasn't going anywhere. That there was no one else for me. No one else I wanted to love. Nothing can change that.
Nicole Williams
#48. I thought loving people was supposed to be easy," he says quietly. "But it's the hardest thing I've done. I wish I knew how to love you right."
"I've told you how to love me. You aren't willing to love me how I need to be loved.
Katie McGarry
#49. Men started praying to you, begging for a taste. That legend of yours spiraled out of control. You gave the people hope. They were told you were all they ever needed.
James W. Bodden
#50. To see the man that I love pursue another woman was heartbreaking. Usually men do this shit behind your back. However, since we were in the lifestyle, I guess he thought it was okay to do it in my face. "I told you that there were
Jessica N. Watkins
#51. Peer pressure is when you decide to lob a few warheads at this week's Nazi because CNN told you to.
Nick Cole
#52. For, as I have often told you before and now say again even with tears, many live as enemies of the cross of Christ.
Lysa TerKeurst
#53. You are quite the beauty. If no one has ever told you that before, know that right now. You are quite the beauty.
Anis Mojgani
#54. I'll get it if you need it,
I'll search if you don't see it,
You're thirsty, I'll be rain,
You get hurt, I'll take your pain.
I know you don't believe it,
But I said it and I still mean it,
When you heard what I told you,
When you get worried I'll be your soldier.
Gavin DeGraw
#55. Really, though? Have I ever told you how deep you are?"
"No." He smiled as he got out of the car. "But that's only because you and I have never fucked ...
Whitney Gracia Williams
#56. I told you I wanted to live in a world in which the antidote to shame is not honor, but honesty.
Maggie Nelson
#57. There's what we did wrong and what we did right. The mistake is that we did some things against the people - by us and also by the enemy - but the other side, as I told you, is that without our struggle there would be no Cambodia right now.
Pol Pot
#58. Batman: What have I told you about trusting dangerous and obsessive criminal geniuses?
Wonder Woman: To be fair, you tend to warn everyone about everything.
Batman: Point.
Landry Q. Walker
#59. I told you, I suck at this. It's like any time I try to do a spell, it goes all big and scary and explodey ...
Rachel Hawkins
#60. What if I told you that I put my whole life into Tintin?
Herge
#61. Conscience is what your mother told you before you were six years old.
Brock Chisholm
#62. Money can't buy everything." "Someone must have told you that. You'd never think of such a platitude all by yourself. What can't it buy?" "Oh, well, I don't know - not happiness or love, anyway." "Generally it can. And when it can't, it can buy some of the most remarkable substitutes.
Margaret Mitchell
#63. Who were you before the world told you what you were not?
Bryant McGill
#64. I've told you that I like a well-read woman. Well-read woman tend to know more about a wide range of topics. And you can never be bored with a woman who reads
Chelsea M. Cameron
#65. I know you look both ways before you cross the street, but I want you to look both ways a second time, because I told you to.
Jonathan Safran Foer
#66. There was no etiquette guide in the universe that told you how to handle waking up in a house you'd fled from as a teenager with your estranged sister in one room accross the hall and your husband's pregnant teenage mistress in the other.
Tiffany Baker
#67. I've already told you: the only way to a woman's heart is along the path of torment. I know none other as sure.
Marquis De Sade
#68. We all live in fear of cancer, but to be told you have skin cancer was terrifying.
Stephanie Beacham
#69. I don't know if I ever told you this before, but you're the only one I ever waited for this long.
Frank Ocean
#70. If I told you about all the stories I don't tell, I would be violating the very boundaries I set for myself.
Joyce Maynard
#71. I told you I would never let anything bad happen to you.
Cora Carmack
#72. Have I ever told you how scary it is that you think of heels in terms of their possible shiv potential?
Jennifer Estep
#73. I've always related music to those moments when someone turns you loose on something and they haven't told you how to do it.
Stone Gossard
#74. I get one hour, really 25 minutes in a sermon on a weekend, to combat all the hours of the week that people are told you are what you have through billboards, commercials, and sitcoms, and so forth.
Max Lucado
#75. On my gravestone, I want it to say, "I told you I was sick."
Tom Waits
#76. I told you what a good little whore you could be. Your talent has been wasted.
Jesse Joren
#77. He told you not to cry, but tears keep leaking out of your eyes. And you're glad, because those tears belong to you. They're yours. Your tears. He can't have them. He can't touch them. They're all yours. (182)
Norma Fox Mazer
#78. I already told you," said Adam. "There is no need to swear."
"Sorry, it just fucking slipped out," said Zeb.
Margaret Atwood
#79. Jesus, Shep. I told you ... "
"I know what you said. You have eighteen missed calls."
"All Trent?"
"One is from Panty Wearers Anonymous.
Jamie McGuire
#80. I love you, couch - have I ever told you that? Well, I'm telling you now.
Emma Chase
#81. If you don't have the confidence in baking, commit to making the recipe three times. The first two, do it exactly the way I've told you to make it. Twice. The first time you'll screw it up. The second time it will come out pretty good, and then the third time, make your adjustments.
Tom Douglas
#82. Get in the fucking car. You're a mean drunk.
You haven't seen me mean, mama's boy!
I told you we're close!
Yeah, so are me and my asshole! Doesn't mean I'm going to call it twice a day!
Jamie McGuire
#83. Truthfully, I'm not sure at all, but I'd never let anyone know that, not even Seven. And before you say shit, I'm well aware that I just told you, but you don't count so stop trying to inject yourself into the damn story. This is an important moment.
J.M. Darhower
#84. I told you to wait," he snapped at Alec.
"Don't you ever do anything I tell you to?"
"Technically you didn't actually say anything,"
Clary said. "You just gestured."
"Gesturing counts," Jace said. "I gesture
very expressively.
Cassandra Clare
#85. Everything that I have told you is, of course, a fairy tale. Life is magical, after all. Nothing is safe and everything changes.
Trina Schart Hyman
#86. The Enlightened one has told you in never-to-be-forgotten words that this little span of life is but a passing shadow, a fleeting thing.
Mahatma Gandhi
#87. Knut, this is Jude. Remember I told you about him? He writes poetry." Knut looked my half-Japanese self up and down. "Haiku?" he guessed. "Gesundheit," I muttered sourly.
J.L. Merrow
#88. Who has sent you against me? Who has told you to do this thing?
Roberto Calvi
#90. Remember,
a stranger once told you that the breeze
here is something worth writing poems about.
Shinji Moon
#91. Pointless, needless suffering pain? I don't suppose it would help if I told you that is the way life is. The good suffer, the evil flourish, and the mortal passes away
Cassandra Clare
#92. Did you know that 'I told you so' has a brother,Jacob?" she asked cutting me off. "His name is 'Shut the hell up'.
Stephenie Meyer
#93. Tired of lying in the sunshine staying home to watch the rain.
You are young and life is long and there is time to kill today.
And then one day you find ten years have got behind you.
No one told you when to run, you missed the starting gun.
Pink Floyd
#94. If I told you the words, you wouldn't believe them anyway.
Richard Berry
#95. Very few American parents give a crap about how they raise their kids. They put minimal effort into it. Who told you it's a good idea to buy a developing mind a video game?
Louis C.K.
#96. But how could you believe me? after all the thousands of times i told you i loved you how could you let one word break your faith in me
Stephenie Meyer
#97. I told you. It was interesting' [Annabel]
'Interesting,' he [Owen] said, 'is not a word.'
'Since when?
Sarah Dessen
#98. You're not asleep, and you're not dead. I'm here, and I love you. I have always loved you, and I will always love you. I was thinking of you, seeing your face in my mind, every second that I was away. When I told you that I didn't want you, it was the very blackest kind of blasphemy.
Stephenie Meyer
#99. You probably didn't hear me, but I told you I loved you that night. I couldn't seem to stop it from slipping out. Then you cried for Denny, and I wanted to die again.
S.C. Stephens
#100. I wonder about prisoners. They're told, "You are free, you are innocent, you can go anywhere." I'm sure they usually feel nothing. They don't burst into tears or hysterics or joy or "I told you so." It's nothing. To be on the straight path isn't a bloody thing. It's just ordinary.
Diana Vreeland
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