“Rosabelle — answer — tell — pray, answer — look — tell — answer, answer — tell.”
Harry Houdini (1874–1926) Austro-Hungarian born American magician, escapologist, and stunt performer
The secret message http://www.magictricks.com/houdini/seancehistory.htm devised with his wife to test spiritualist séances should he or she die. In their secret stage-code it spells out the word: "BELIEVE". Quoted in Death and the Magician : The Mystery of Houdini (1981) by Raymund Fitzsimons, p. 166
“Tell all the truth but tell it slant.”
Emily Dickinson book The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson
1129: Tell all the Truth but tell it slant —
The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson (1960)
Variant: Tell all the Truth but tell it slant —
Success in Circuit lies
Source: The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson
Context: p>Tell all the Truth but tell it slant —
Success in Circuit lies
Too bright for our infirm Delight
The Truth's superb surpriseAs Lightning to the Children eased
With explanation kind
The Truth must dazzle gradually
Or every man be blind —</p
Mort Sahl (1927–2021) American comedian and actor
1987 <br class="br">Politics <br class="br">Source: Quotations Collected by Donald Gudehus: Mort Sahl http://www.chara.gsu.edu/~gudehus/Quotations/quotations_rst.html
“This hour I tell things in confidence/ I might not tell everybody, but I will tell you.”
Walt Whitman (1819–1892) American poet, essayist and journalist
“To tell someone not to be emotional is to tell them to be dead.”
Jeanette Winterson (1959) English writer
Source: Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?
“Don't tell me! Don't tell me!”
Yolanda King (1955–2007) American actress
Reaction to news of father being shot quoted in Betty Shabazz, Surviving Malcolm X: A Journey of Strength from Wife to Widow to Heroine (2003) by Russell J. Rickford, p. 349
1960s
“Blood tells — always remember that — blood tells.”
Agatha Christie book The Mysterious Affair at Styles
The Mysterious Affair at Styles (1920)
William Randolph Hearst (1863–1951) American newspaper publisher
Instructions to E.D. Coblentz (March 1, 1938)
