Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player, that struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and then is heard no more; it is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.
William Shakespeare

The British nation is unique in this respect. They are the only people who like to be told how bad things are, who like to be told the worst.
Winston Churchill

Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: "I'm with you kid. Let's go."
Maya Angelou

No one ever told me I was pretty when I was a little girl. All little girls should be told they're pretty, even if they aren't.
Marilyn Monroe

Thomas Jefferson once said, 'We should never judge a president by his age, only by his works.' And ever since he told me that, I stopped worrying.
Ronald Reagan

I am mortified to be told that, in the United States of America, the sale of a book can become a subject of inquiry, and of criminal inquiry too.
Thomas Jefferson

My father always told me that all businessmen were sons of bitches, but I never believed it till now.
John F. Kennedy

Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it.
C. S. Lewis

No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.
C. S. Lewis

I never did give anybody hell. I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.
Harry S. Truman

We were told our campaign wasn't sufficiently slick. We regard that as a compliment.
Margaret Thatcher

I went to a bookstore and asked the saleswoman, "Where's the self-help section?" She said if she told me, it would defeat the purpose.
George Carlin

When BP was not moving fast enough on claims, we told BP to set aside $20 billion in a fund - managed by an independent third party - to help all those whose lives have been turned upside down by the spill.
Barack Obama

I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours.
Hunter S. Thompson

Some guy hit my fender, and I told him, 'Be fruitful and multiply,' but not in those words.
Woody Allen

Someone told me that each equation I included in the book would halve the sales.
Stephen Hawking

If a victory is told in detail, one can no longer distinguish it from a defeat.
Jean-Paul Sartre

The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

A boy's story is the best that is ever told.
Charles Dickens

My psychiatrist told me I was crazy and I said I want a second opinion. He said okay, you're ugly too.
Rodney Dangerfield