Tales Quotes

I love fairy tales.

— Sondra Locke

No one is too old for fairy tales.

— Anonymous

It is the tale, not he who tells it.

— Stephen King

Idle man, chases after fairy tales.

— Rumi

“Dead man tells no tales”

— Agente Kasper

“He had tales of distant countries.”

— James Joyce

A tale in everything.

— William Wordsworth

“I love you more than fairy tales,”

— Seanan McGuire

Even modern wars are fought like revenge tales from some petty grievance.

— Jay Roach

“Fairy tales, as Nell had said, are always complicated.”

— Nancy Atherton

The wordy tale, once told, were hard to tell again.

— Homer

“A key and a strangler - this is all a simple tale requires.”

— Steve Aylett

He who would tell divers tales must know how to vary the tune.

— Marie de France

You may tell a tale that takes up residence in someone's soul

— Erin Morgenstern

Philosophy is the opposite of fairy tales

— Jostein Gaarder

Dead women tell no tales. Sad men write them down.

— Anonymous

He who always prefaces his tale with laughter, is poised between impertinence and folly.

— Johann Kaspar Lavater

Yet have I ever heard it said that spies and tale-bearers have done more mischief in this world than poisoned bowl or…

— Friedrich Schiller

The fairy tale is in a perpetual state of becoming and alteration. To keep to one version or one translation alone is…

— Philip Pullman

“The thing about fairy tales was having faith in the things that don't come true, and appreciating them when they do.”

— Shey Stahl

Give Mozart a fairy tale and he creates without effort an immortal masterpiece.

— Camille Saint-Saens

A lie took two parties - the weaver of the tale and the sucker who so badly wanted to believe it.

— Jodi Picoult

An old paleontological in joke proclaims that mammalian evolution is a tale told by teeth mating to produce slightly altered descendant teeth.

— Stephen Jay Gould

There's a quality of legend about freaks. Like a person in a fairy tale who stops you and demands that you answer…

— Diane Arbus

People write fiction in their minds all the time - every time we read a 'human interest' news story, or a true…

— Dan Chaon

With Wings of the Butterfly, John Urbancik infuses his tale of shapeshifters, romance and pack rivalry with some unexpected and welcome surprises.…

— Kealan Patrick Burke

Burton sighed, laughed loudly, and said, "Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose." Another fairy tale to give men hope .…

— Philip Jose Farmer

So, as much as it is about this continuing war, the reinstated draft, and their individual views, it's really sort of a…

— Elijah Wood

Eye-popping tales of growing income inequality are hardly new. By now, nearly every American must be painfully aware of the widening pay…

— Steven Rattner

Everything wonderful in appearance has been ascribed to angels, to devils, or to saints. Everything ancient has some legendary tale annexed to…

— Thomas Paine

Once upon a time . . .” “In the beginning was . . .” That’s the way it always starts off. Every…

— Steven Tyler

Recollections of early childhood bear comparison to fairy tales, and ... youth remains an unknown country to whose bourn no traveler returns…

— Lewis H. Lapham

It wasn't long after I began writing Star Wars that I realized the story was more than a single film could hold.…

— George Lucas

Perhaps the rediscovery of our humanity, and the potential of the human spirit which we have read about in legends of older…

— Pierre Trudeau

Uh-uh, dude. I tried it your way with the dating and the girls and the kissing and the drama, and man, I…

— John Green

There was a tale he had read once, long ago, as a small boy: the story of a traveler who had slipped…

— Neil Gaiman

To young men contemplating a voyage I would say go. The tales of rough usage are for the most part exaggerations, as…

— Joshua Slocum

Away! Away! The spell of arms and voices: the white arms of roads, their promise of close embraces and the black arms…

— James Joyce

If we assiduously cultivate our powers of exaggeration, perhaps we, too, shall obtain the Paradise of Liars. And there Raphael shall paint…

— James Branch Cabell

Most Muggles lived in a world defined by the limits of what you could do with cars and telephones. Even though Muggle…

— Eliezer Yudkowsky