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Definition of Told
Told

of Tell

imp. & p. p. of Tell.

Related Definitions:
Imp, Of, Tell


Told Quotations

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

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

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

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 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

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

Life is not having been told that the man has just waxed the floor.
Ogden Nash


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