Best Told You So Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“In i det längsta ville hon vara en god dotter ... In i det sista ville hon visa en ängels tålamod ... Ända in på slutet beredde hon sig att orubblig försöka ta emot de stötar, som föräldrarnas obetänksamma uppträdande och otakt kunde ge henne ... Hon beslöt sig att vara karaktärsfast. Hade hon sagt en sak, så skulle ingenting kunna förmå henne att ändra den. Ingen skulle kunna säga efteråt: "Det var tal om det, men det vart inte .. ." Marta skulle visa minsann, att det skulle bli!” (Sid. 190)”

Stubbornness Told You So Social Expectations 1930s Stockholm Steadfastness Of Charactrer

Book:Kungsgatan

Source: Kungsgatan

“Time will say nothing but I told you so.”

Time Told You So

Author:W. H. Auden

“Maturity is humility. It is being big enough to say, "I was wrong." And, when he/she is right, the mature person need not experience the satisfaction of saying, "I told you so."”

Needs Persons Enough Bigs Humility Satisfaction Maturity Mature Told You So Mature Person

Author:Ann Landers

“I made jokes about kissing Murphy Brown. But if that's what cost me my job, my wife will probably say, "Hey asshole, I told you so".”

Ifs Made Jobs Wife Cost Kissing Jokes My Wife Hey Brown Murphy Told You So Murphy Brown

Author:Bebe Neuwirth

“There is a hint of despair in the cry of 'I told you so,' an element of disappointment in the apparent satisfaction when idols turn out to have clay feet. The human race, when it thinks it has proved that no one is superior, is partly gratified and partly depressed.”

Thinking Humans Turns Race Feet Cry Despair Elements Disappointment Satisfaction Superiors Human Race Idols Clay Hints Told You So

Author:Alice Thomas Ellis

“There’s something amazing about unbelief – it is able to fulfill its own expectations. Unbelief is safe because it takes no risk and almost always gets what it expects. Then, after a person gets the answer for their unbelief, they can say, I told you so.”

Persons Able Answers Risk Safe Expectations Unbelief Told You So

Book:When Heaven Invades Earth: A Practical Guide to a Life of Miracles

Source: When Heaven Invades Earth: A Practical Guide to a Life of Miracles

“Of all the horrid, hideous notes of woe, Sadder than owl-songs or the midnight blast; Is that portentous phrase, "I told you so.”

Song Notes Phrases Prophecy Woe Midnight Blast Hideous Owl Told You So

Author:Lord Byron

“I am not going to say I told you so, but I did.”

Oxymoron Told You So Funny Oxymoron

Author:Nouriel Roubini

“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.”

Feels Joy Wonder Path Tears Ordinary Innocent Prisoner Bloody Straight Path Told You So

Author:Diana Vreeland

“To all my fans who's saying Donald Glover about to blow, just give me six months so you can say I told you so.”

Giving Fans Months Six Give Me Blow Six Months Told You So

Author:Donald Glover

“I am being very humble about the Arab Spring. There's kind of a competition out there, you might have noticed, of who can be the first to say the Arab Spring is going to fail. Everyone says, "I told you so, I told you so about the Muslim Brotherhood." I have no desire to tell anyone anything. I don't know. I'm just listening, watching. It may turn out all these people are right, they may be wrong. They may be right this year and wrong next year, by the way. I'm just trying to listen day to day, figure it out.”

“The four most beautiful words in our common language: I told you so.”

Beautiful Language Common Four Gore Beautiful Words Common Language Told You So

Author:Gore Vidal

“There's nothing I find quite as annoying as the phrase 'I told you so.'”

Phrases Annoying Told You So

Author:Ayelet Waldman

“Nobody who says, ‘I told you so’ has ever been, or will ever be, a hero.”

Freedom Adventure Hero Heroism Told You So

Book:The Language of the Night: Essays on Fantasy and Science Fiction

Source: The Language of the Night: Essays on Fantasy and Science Fiction

“i told you he'd freak out, she siad. didn't i? ah, the i told you so, jace said. always a classy move”

Said Moving Freak Jace Told You So

Author:Cassandra Clare

“Time will say nothing but I told you so, Time only knows the price we have to pay; If I could tell you I would let you know.”

Ifs Knows Pay If I Could Told You So

Author:W. H. Auden

“There is nothing everyone is so afraid of as being told how vastly much he is capable of. You are capable of - do you want to know? - you are capable of living in poverty; you are capable of standing almost any kind of maltreatment, abuse, etc. But you do not wish to know about it, isn't that so? You would be furious with him who told you so, and only call that person your friend who bolsters you in saying: 'No, this I cannot bear, this is beyond my strength, etc.”

Knows Want Kind Persons Would Be Wish Poverty Bears Capable Standing Abuse Etc Saying No Furious Told You So

Author:Soren Kierkegaard

“I want you," she said. "I told you so," he said.”

Want Said I Want You Told You So

Book:Lord Perfect

Source: Lord Perfect

“I love my mother for all the times she said absolutely nothing.... Thinking back on it all, it must have been the most difficult part of mothering she ever had to do: knowing the outcome, yet feeling she had no right to keep me from charting my own path. I thank her for all her virtues, but mostly for never once having said, "I told you so.”

Thinking Has Beens Said Feelings Mother Difficult My Own Knowing Virtue Path Outcomes Absolutely Nothing Mothering Mother Daughter I Love My Mother Told You So Charting

Book:Motherhood: The Second Oldest Profession

Source: Motherhood: The Second Oldest Profession

“Give me an opportunity to fail," Saiman said. "I promise my corpse won't interrupt your 'I told you so' speech.”

Giving Said Opportunity Failing Promise Speech Give Me Corpses I Promise Told You So

Book:Magic Strikes

Source: Magic Strikes

“Aren’t you going to say, I told you so?” Hadrian whispered. “What would be the point in that?” “Oh, so you’re saying that you’re going to hang on to this and throw it at me at some future, more personally beneficial moment?” “I don’t see the point in wasting it now, do you?”

Moments Would Be Beneficial Hadrian Told You So

Book:The Crown Conspiracy

Source: The Crown Conspiracy

“I want to take back the secrets I told you so I can decide now whether to tell them to you again. I want to take back the piece of me that lies in you, to see if I truly miss it. I want to take back at least half the “I love you”s, because it feels safer that way.”

Ifs Way Want Feels I Can Lying Secret Half Pieces Love You Missing You Again Told You So

Book:The Lover's Dictionary: A Novel

Source: The Lover's Dictionary: A Novel

“I can't stand people who say 'I told you so.' That's worse than somebody coming up and eating your dinner before you have a chance to sit down.”

People I Can Chance Eating Dinner Told You So

Book:The Chronicles of Prydain

Source: The Chronicles of Prydain

“The annoying thing about being an atheist is that you'll never have the satifaction of saying to believers, 'I told you so.'”

Death Atheist Believer Annoying Told You So Annoying Things

Author:Mark Steel

“The terrorist attacks were a tragedy for the people who died or were injured, and for their families and friends. For the rest of us, they were a wake-up call as to what type of lunatics we are dealing with. And sleepwalking our way back into ill-sorted, dewy-eyed people personal politics is the last thing we need to set us up for the fight ahead. Come on you liberals, don't give me the morbid pleasure of saying, 'I told you so' again.”

“I assure you, my children, that when a Christian carries out with love the most insignificant everyday action, that action overflows with the transcendence of God. That is why I have told you so often, and hammered away at it, that the Christian vocation consists in making heroic verse out of the prose of each day. Heaven and earth seem to merge, my children, on the horizon. But where they really meet is in your hearts, when you sanctify your everyday lives.”

“Fox News has changed its slogan from 'Fair and Balanced' to 'See, I told you so!'”

Changed News Fairs Balanced Foxes Slogans Fox News Told You So

Author:Jay Leno

“Next to "I win," "I told you so" are the sweetest words.”

Next Winning Sweetest Smugness Told You So

Author:Gore Vidal

“If we disagree and I think I'm right, I just go ahead and do what I think is right. And then she tells me, 'I told you so.'”

Ifs Thinking Political Politics Disagree Told You So

Author:William J. Clinton

“Republicans are not going to play I-told-you-so, but it is pretty obvious that the tax reductions passed in 2003 helped Americans dig out of a recession and get back to work.”

Play Republican Taxes Obvious Get Back Reduction Recessions Back To Work Told You So

Author:Marsha Blackburn