Johann Kaspar Lavater: Tell

Johann Kaspar Lavater was Swiss poet. Explore interesting quotes on tell.
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“Never tell evil of a man, if you do not know it for certainty, and if you know it for a certainty, then ask yourself, 'Why should I tell it?”

Johann Kaspar Lavater

As quoted in What Billingsgate Thought: A Country Gentleman's Views on Snobbery (1919) by William Alexander Newman Dorland

Evil

“You may tell a man thou art a fiend, but not your nose wants blowing; to him alone who can bear a thing of that kind, you may tell all.”

Johann Kaspar Lavater

No. 84
Aphorisms on Man (c. 1788)

Art

“He who, when called upon to speak a disagreeable truth, tells it boldly and has done is both bolder and milder than he who nibbles in a low voice and never ceases nibbling.”

Johann Kaspar Lavater

No. 302
Aphorisms on Man (c. 1788)

Truth