Tells

Famous quotes containing the word tells:

“A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you.”
—Bert Leston Taylor (1866–1921)

“Still we live meanly, like ants; though the fable tells us that we were long ago changed into men; like pygmies we fight with cranes; it is error upon error, and clout upon clout, and our best virtue has for its occasion a superfluous and evitable wretchedness. Our life is frittered away by detail.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“If there is a look of human eyes that tells of perpetual loneliness, so there is also the familiar look that is the sign of perpetual crowds.”
—Alice Meynell (1847–1922)