tell quotes

'Sensiblemen are all thesamereligion.' 'And pray what is that?' inquired the prince.'Sensible men never tell.'

- Benjamin, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield Disraeli
  Waldershire. Endymion, ch.81.

I'm called little Buttercupdear Little Buttercup, Though I could never tell why.

- Sir W(illiam) S(chwenck) Gilbert
  HMS Pinafore, act1.

Tell me the old, old story, Of unseen things above.

- Katherine Hankey
  The Story  Wanted,'Tell Me the Old, Old Story'.

Tell me, Muse, of the man of many ways, who was driven far journeys, after he had sacked Troy's sacred citadel. Many were they whose cities he saw, whose minds he learned of, many the pains he suffered in his spirit on the wide sea, struggling for his own life and the homecoming of his companions.

-Homer   8c
c.700  BC  Odyssey, bk.1, l.1^5 (translated by Richmond Lattimore).

And they shall be accounted poet kings Who simply tell the most heart-easing things.

-John Keats
  'Sleep and Poetry', l.267^8.

Raconter tout serait impossible. To tell all would be impossible.

- Guy de Maupassant
  Pierre et  Jean, pre  face.

If we live inside a bad joke, it is up to us to learn, at best and worst, to tell it well.

-Jonathan Raban
  Coasting, ch.6.

Never tell anyone anything. If you do you start missing everyone.

-J(erome) D(avid) Salinger
The Catcher in the Rye, last words.

Well, sir, you never can tell. That's a principle in life with me, sir, if you'll excuse my having such a thing, sir.

- George Bernard Shaw
  Waiter to Fergus Crampton.You Never CanTell, act 2.

Nor at all can tell Whether I mean this day to end myself, Or lend an ear to Plato where he says, That men like soldiers may not quit the post Allotted by the Gods.

-Tennyson
  'Lucretius',1.145^9.

One should never trust a woman who tells one her real age. A woman who would tell one that, would tell one anything.

- Oscar Fingal O'FlahertieWills Wilde
  Lord Illingworth. AWoman of No Importance, act1.