Even modern wars are fought like revenge tales from some petty grievance. — Jay Roach Copy Share Image
At the centre of every fairy tale lay a truth that gave the story its power — Susan Wiggs Copy Share Image
“I found out the hard way that fairy tales and true love don't exist” — Elizabeth Eulberg Copy Share Image
“You perceive, do you not, that our national fairy tales reflect the inmost desires of the Briton and the Gaul?” — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
Man passes away; his name perishes from record and recollection; his history is as a tale that is told, and his very… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
Deeper meaning resides in the fairy tales told to me in my childhood than in the truth that is taught by life. — Friedrich Schiller Copy Share Image
A truly nonviolent man would never live to tell the tale of atrocities. He would have laid down his life on the… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The tale of the Divine Pity was never yet believed from lips that were not felt to be moved by human pity. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Give Mozart a fairy tale and he creates without effort an immortal masterpiece. — Camille Saint-Saens Copy Share Image
A lie took two parties - the weaver of the tale and the sucker who so badly wanted to believe it. — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
People have been modeling their lives after films for years, but the medium is somehow unsuited to moral lessons, cautionary tales or… — Renata Adler Copy Share Image
The fairy tale emanates from specific struggles to humanize bestial and barbaric forces, which have terrorized our minds and communities in concrete… — Jack Zipes Copy Share Image
Today there are no fairy tales for us to believe in, and this is possibly a reason for the universal prevalence of… — Anita Loos Copy Share Image
While we are being fascinated by the tales of famous serial killers and how they were brought to justice, the real serial… — Pat Brown Copy Share Image
In crime fiction, I just don't write the parts that aren't a thriller and it's exactly the same in my TV reporting… — Hank Phillippi Ryan Copy Share Image
I've always felt that the traditional novel doesn't give you enough information about the narrator, and I think it's important to know… — W. G. Sebald Copy Share Image
Pleasing things: finding a large number of tales that one has not read before. Or acquiring the second volume of a tale… — Sei Shonagon Copy Share Image
And our lady friend, she thinks life works like a fairy tale.' Well, that’s harmless, isn’t it?' Yeah, but in fairy tales,… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Eyes Tell Stories But do they know how to craft fiction? Do they know how to spin lies? His eyes swear forever,… — Ellen Hopkins Copy Share Image
I am ashamed to see what a shallow village tale our so-called History is. How many times must we say Rome, and… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“The appeal of the spectrally macabre is generally narrow because it demands from the reader a certain degree of imagination and a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
American literature was enriched with Men Who Loved Allison … Of the actual and eventual worth of this romance I cannot pretend… — James Branch Cabell Copy Share Image
Then it's settled," Harriet said. "We shall work out the smaller roles later.""What about you?" Elizabeth demanded."Oh, I'm going to be the… — Julia Quinn Copy Share Image
Worship isn't destructive, Martin. I know that. I don't. I only know it's the core of his life. What else has he… — Peter Shaffer Copy Share Image
“The grass always seems greener on the other side of the fence. Many politicians promise green, green grass by blending niceties with… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
Imagination has given us the steam engine, the telephone, the talking-machine, and the automobile, for these things had to be dreamed of… — L. Frank Baum Copy Share Image
