T Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with T. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Tell me, daughter Juliet, How stands your dispositions to be married" It is an honor that I dream not of”
Source: CliffsComplete Romeo and Juliet
“Tell me, Do you feel the way I feel? 'Cause nothing else is real In the La La Land machine”
“Tell me, do you spend time with your family? Good. Because a man who doesn't spend time with his family can never be a real man.”
“Tell me, do you think I'm going mad? I sometimes wonder, you know.”
“Tell me, enigmatical man, whom do you love best, your father, Your mother, your sister, or your brother? I have neither father, nor mother, nor sister, nor brother. Your friends? Now you use a word whose meaning I have never known. Your country? I do not know in what latitude it lies. Beauty? I could indeed love her, Goddess and Immortal. Gold? I hate it as you hate God. Then, what do you love, extraordinary stranger? I love the clouds the clouds that pass up there Up there the wonderful clouds!”
Source: Paris Spleen, 1869
“Tell me, he said, "What is this thing about time? Why is it better to be late than early? People are always saying, we must wait, we must wait. what are they waiting for?" "Well […] I guess people wait in order to make sure of what they feel." "And when you have waited—-has it made you sure?”
“Tell me, how can I live without my Husband any longer? This is my first awakening thought each morning, and as I watch the waves of the turbulent lake under our windows I sometimes feel I should like to go under them.”
Source: Mary Todd Lincoln: her life and letters
“Tell me, how do you cope so calmly
With crazy youth's arrogant way?
Indeed, youth would be insufferable,
Had I myself not also been insufferable.”
“Tell me, how is Lucius Malfoy these days? I expect he's delighted his lapdog's working at Hogwarts, isn't he?" "Speaking of dogs," said Snape softly, "did you know that Lucius Malfoy recognized you last time you risked a little jaunt outside? Clever idea, Black, getting yourself seen on a safe station platform. Gave you a cast-iron excuse not to leave your hidey-hole in future, didn't it?”
“Tell me, if you can, of anything that's finer than an evening in camp with a rare old friend and a dog after one's heart.”
Source: Mark Right!: Tales of Shooting & Fishing
“Tell me, if you thought a man had a tendresse for you, but he wasn't doing anything about it. And you wanted to hurry him up a little so you made a move, an unmistakable move; one that nobody could pretend had been a misunderstanding. And he - he ignored it - ignored you. What would you feel?”
Source: I Think of You
“Tell me, is he always really rude, or does he save that for mundanes?”
Source: Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instruments Series (5 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels, City of Lost Souls
“Tell me, is it better to know love and have lost it or to have never known it at all? [Camulus]”
Source: Night Pleasures/Night Embrace
“Tell me, is it possible to love someone who is not as smart as you are? ...But isn't it important for you to think she is smarter than you in order to fall in love? ...Why is that? Because we want to know things, how the pieces fit. Talkers seduce, words direct us into corners. We want more than anything to grow and change. Brave new world.”
“Tell me, is the rose naked or is that her only dress? Why do trees conceal the splendor of their roots? Who hears the regrets of the thieving automobile? Is there anything in the world sadder than a train standing in the rain?”
Source: The book of questions
“Tell me, Kitten.” That deep, smooth voice brushed over me like a physical caress. “Shall I leave now, or wait until later?”
“Tell me, O Muse, of that ingenious hero who travelled far and wide after he had sacked the famous town of Troy.”
Source: The Odyssey: Top Classic Collections
“Tell me, O muse, of travellers far and wide”
“Tell me, sweet eyes, from what divinest star did ye drink in your liquid melancholy?”
“Tell me, warrior, how soon can we do this again?”
Source: The Highlander Series 3-Book Bundle: In Bed with a Highlander, Seduction of a Highland Lass, Never Love a Highlander
“Tell me, was I the sort of person who took your elbow when cars passed on the street, touched your cheek while you talked, combed your wet hair, stopped by the side of the road in the country to point out certain constellations, standing behind you so that you had the advantage of leaning and looking up?”
Source: Man Walks Into a Room
“Tell me, was it you or your brother who was killed in the war?”
“Tell me, what do they do for us in Bulgaria? Do they fix the prices? Or is there some kind of a free market?”
“Tell me, what else should I have done? Doesn't everything die at last, and too soon? Tell me, what is it you plan to do With your one wild and precious life?”
Source: The Truro Bear and Other Adventures: Poems and Essays
“Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?”
“Tell me, when you give alms do you look into the eyes of the man or woman to whom you give alms? . . . And when you give alms, do you touch the hand of the one to whom you give alms, or do you toss the coin?”
“Tell me, where in life is there a value that would make us consider suicide uncalled for on principle! Love? Or friendship? I guarantee that friendship is not a bit less fickle than love and it is impossible to build anything on it. Self-love? I wish it were possible.”
Source: Laughable Loves
“Tell me, which designers in New York do you think are great - besides me, of course.”
“Tell me, who are you, alone, yourself and nameless?”
Source: The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien
“Tell me, why do former young designers who are now in their middle 40s have to redo the 1960s and 70s. Why they cannot invent fashion for today?”
“Tell me, why is the media here so negative? Why are we in India so embarrassed to recognize our own strengths, our achievements? We are such a great nation. We have so many amazing success stories but we refuse to acknowledge them. Why?.”
“Tell me, ye wingèd winds That round my pathway roar, Know ye not some spot Where mortals weep no more?”
“Tell me, you vain professor, when did you shed a tear for the deadness, hardness, unbelief, or earthliness of your heart? Do you think that such an easy religion can save you? If so, we may invert Christ's words and say, 'Wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to life, and may there be that go in there.'”
“Tell me," said the atheist , "Is there a God really?" Said the master, "If you want me to be perfectly honest with you, I will not answer." Later the disciples demanded to know why he had not answered. "Because the question is unanswerable," said the Master. "So you are an atheist?" "Certainly not. The atheist makes the mistake of denying that of which nothing may be said... and the theist makes the mistake of affirming it.”
“Tell me,” Isabelle said.“Who it was. That my father had the affair with.”
“Tell me." Edward had to raise his voice a little. "Do you live by the principle that what people don't know can't hurt them?" "No," Harper replied. "What people don't know can't hurt me.”
“Tell me: when God looks at a gay person, does he endorse the existence of this person with love, or reject and condemn this person?... It is necessary to accompany them with mercy.”
“Tell men that God is love; that right is right, and wrong, wrong; let them cease to admire philanthropy, and begin to love men; cease to pant for heaven, and begin to love God; then the spirit of liberty begins.”
Source: Sermons Preached at Brighton
“tell mom i love her
but i ate an alien…
she can’t be near me.”
“Tell more people that you love them.You never know how much they might need it.”
“Tell my brother to remember his heart in all things. That is where his honor and his destiny will be found. Tell him.”
Source: The Sweet Far Thing
“Tell my daughter Elizabeth -- no! Tell all my daughters, everywhere, in all the ages yet to come. Tell them how I died, and why. And tell them to remember this: the future is unwritten. Know your rights.”
“Tell my daughter I love her. Never use a past tense when you tell her. Do not tell her about the day I started being crazy.”
“Tell my father I was abducted by a lucius nymph and pulled to her lair." Styxx
"For the record, I resent being called a lucius nymph." Galen”
Source: Styxx
“Tell my father I wish to be his son.”
Source: The Godfather
“Tell my tale to those who ask. Tell it truly, the ill deeds along with the good, and let me be judged accordingly. The rest... is silence.”
“Tell no lies.”
“Tell no lies' claim no easy victories”
Source: Unity and Struggle: Speeches and Writings of Amilcar Cabral
“Tell no man anything, for no man listens Yet hold thy lips ready to speak.”
Source: The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg
“Tell no one the secret that you want to keep, although he may be worthy of confidence; for no one will be so careful of your secret as yourself.”