Told You So Quotes

• The four most beautiful words in our common language: I told you so.

  Gore Vidal

  Beautiful, Four, Common

  FaceBook post by Gore Vidal from Aug 18, 2011

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• I am not going to say I told you so, but I did.

  Nouriel Roubini

  Oxymoron, Funny Oxymoron

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• Maturity is humility. It is being big enough to say, "I was wrong." And, when he/she is right, the mature person need not experience the satisfaction of saying, "I told you so."

  Ann Landers

  Humility, Maturity, Mature Person

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• Next to "I win," "I told you so" are the sweetest words.

  Gore Vidal

  Winning, Smugness, Next

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• Of all the horrid, hideous notes of woe, Sadder than owl-songs or the midnight blast; Is that portentous phrase, "I told you so.

  Lord Byron

  Song, Owl, Midnight

  'Don Juan' (1819-24) canto 14, st. 50

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• I love my mother for all the times she said absolutely nothing.... Thinking back on it all, it must have been the most difficult part of mothering she ever had to do: knowing the outcome, yet feeling she had no right to keep me from charting my own path. I thank her for all her virtues, but mostly for never once having said, "I told you so.

  Erma Bombeck

  Mother, Thinking, Knowing

  Erma Bombeck (2013). “Motherhood: The Second Oldest Profession”, p.183, Open Road Media

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• There’s something amazing about unbelief – it is able to fulfill its own expectations. Unbelief is safe because it takes no risk and almost always gets what it expects. Then, after a person gets the answer for their unbelief, they can say, I told you so.

  Bill Johnson

  Expectations, Risk, Answers

  Bill Johnson (2010). “When Heaven Invades Earth: A Practical Guide to a Life of Miracles”, p.41, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Time will say nothing but I told you so.

  W. H. Auden

  Time

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• Republicans are not going to play I-told-you-so, but it is pretty obvious that the tax reductions passed in 2003 helped Americans dig out of a recession and get back to work.

  Marsha Blackburn

  Play, Republican, Back To Work

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• Nobody who says, ‘I told you so’ has ever been, or will ever be, a hero.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Freedom, Hero, Adventure

  Ursula K. Le Guin, Susan Wood (1980). “The Language of the Night: Essays on Fantasy and Science Fiction”, p.87, Ultramarine Publishing

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• There is a hint of despair in the cry of 'I told you so,' an element of disappointment in the apparent satisfaction when idols turn out to have clay feet. The human race, when it thinks it has proved that no one is superior, is partly gratified and partly depressed.

  Alice Thomas Ellis

  Disappointment, Thinking, Race

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• Give me an opportunity to fail," Saiman said. "I promise my corpse won't interrupt your 'I told you so' speech.

  Ilona Andrews

  Opportunity, Giving, Promise

  Ilona Andrews (2009). “Magic Strikes”, p.100, Penguin

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• Time will say nothing but I told you so, Time only knows the price we have to pay; If I could tell you I would let you know.

  W. H. Auden

  Pay, Knows, If I Could

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• Fox News has changed its slogan from 'Fair and Balanced' to 'See, I told you so!'

  Jay Leno

  News, Foxes, Changed

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• I am being very humble about the Arab Spring. There's kind of a competition out there, you might have noticed, of who can be the first to say the Arab Spring is going to fail. Everyone says, "I told you so, I told you so about the Muslim Brotherhood." I have no desire to tell anyone anything. I don't know. I'm just listening, watching. It may turn out all these people are right, they may be wrong. They may be right this year and wrong next year, by the way. I'm just trying to listen day to day, figure it out.

  Thomas Friedman

  Spring, Humble, Years

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• The annoying thing about being an atheist is that you'll never have the satifaction of saying to believers, 'I told you so.'

  Mark Steel

  Death, Atheist, Annoying

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• Aren’t you going to say, I told you so?” Hadrian whispered. “What would be the point in that?” “Oh, so you’re saying that you’re going to hang on to this and throw it at me at some future, more personally beneficial moment?” “I don’t see the point in wasting it now, do you?

  Michael J. Sullivan

  Hadrian, Would Be, Moments

  Michael J. Sullivan (2009). “The Crown Conspiracy”, p.60, Ridan Publishing

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• To all my fans who's saying Donald Glover about to blow, just give me six months so you can say I told you so.

  Donald Glover

  Blow, Giving, Fans

  Song: Fuck It All, Album: Culdesac, 2010

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• I wonder about prisoners. They're told, "You are free, you are innocent, you can go anywhere." I'm sure they usually feel nothing. They don't burst into tears or hysterics or joy or "I told you so." It's nothing. To be on the straight path isn't a bloody thing. It's just ordinary.

  Diana Vreeland

  Joy, Tears, Ordinary

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• There's nothing I find quite as annoying as the phrase 'I told you so.'

  Ayelet Waldman

  Phrases, Annoying

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• i told you he'd freak out, she siad. didn't i? ah, the i told you so, jace said. always a classy move

  Cassandra Clare

  Moving, Freak, Jace

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• The terrorist attacks were a tragedy for the people who died or were injured, and for their families and friends. For the rest of us, they were a wake-up call as to what type of lunatics we are dealing with. And sleepwalking our way back into ill-sorted, dewy-eyed people personal politics is the last thing we need to set us up for the fight ahead. Come on you liberals, don't give me the morbid pleasure of saying, 'I told you so' again.

  Julie Burchill

  Fighting, People, Giving

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• There is nothing everyone is so afraid of as being told how vastly much he is capable of. You are capable of - do you want to know? - you are capable of living in poverty; you are capable of standing almost any kind of maltreatment, abuse, etc. But you do not wish to know about it, isn't that so? You would be furious with him who told you so, and only call that person your friend who bolsters you in saying: 'No, this I cannot bear, this is beyond my strength, etc.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Abuse, Wish, Bears

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• I want you," she said. "I told you so," he said.

  Loretta Chase

  Want, Said, I Want You

  Loretta Chase (2006). “Lord Perfect”, p.127, Penguin

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• I made jokes about kissing Murphy Brown. But if that's what cost me my job, my wife will probably say, "Hey asshole, I told you so".

  Bebe Neuwirth

  Jobs, Kissing, Wife

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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