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Telling Quotes by Samuel Johnson
- I deny the lawfulness of telling a lie to a sick man for fear of alarming him; you have no business with consequences, you are…
- Nobody has the right to put another under such a difficulty that he must either hurt the person by telling the truth or hurt himself…
- That man (Lord Lyttelton) sat down to write a book, to tell the world what the world had all his life been telling him
More Telling Quotes
- I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore… — Pietro Aretino
- It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully. — Aristotle
- Presidents do not go off on leave without telling the country. — Chinua Achebe
- Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher a degree;… — Jane Austen
- Don't believe what your eyes are telling you. All they show is limitation. Look with your understanding, find out what you already… — Richard Bach
- The government has no business telling an individual what kind of light bulb to buy. — Michele Bachmann
- I think of being an actor as kind of a young man's gig. It's emasculating, in a way, people messing with you… — Kevin Bacon
- Have you noticed that whatever sport you're trying to learn, some earnest person is always telling you to keep your knees bent? — Dave Barry