Tales Quotes · Page 8

“All great novels are great fairy tales.”

— Vladimir Nabokov

I have tales to tell, but I don't tell them. Discretion. Discretion.

— Gregory Peck

Many forgotten things live still in children's tales.

— Alison Croggon

Shark Tales: How I turned $1,000 into a Billion Dollar Business

— Barbara Corcoran

“Fairy tales die hard in the minds and hearts of some girls. Quinn”

— Beth Harbison

Sharing tales of those we've lost is how we keep from really losing them.

— Mitch Albom

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

— Nancy Atherton

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

— Steve Aylett

But all this world is like a tale we hear - Men's evil, and their glory, disappear.

— Anonymous

Look at Jane Austen. Her characters derive in a reasonably straight line from fairy tales.

— Andrew Davies

Fairy tales read before bed tend to make me dream. They're all quite violent stories, as are my dreams.

— Glen Duncan

The old fairy tales are very, very violent, and these days I think we could do with a little less of it.

— Julie Andrews

One tell-tale sign of a Wingnut: they always confuse partisanship with patriotism.

— John Avlon

To know, to esteem, to love,-and then to part, Makes up life's tale to many a feeling heart.

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

It could have been like a fairy tale. But fairy tales aren't real. Things don't work like that. There's a price for…

— Maureen Johnson

As for you and your heart and the things you said and didn't say, she will remember them all when men are…

— Peter S. Beagle

Here is the world of imagination, hopes, and dreams. In this timeless land of enchantment, the age of chivalry, magic and make-believe…

— Walt Disney

It [the Earth] was breathtakingly beautiful, like something out of a fairy tale. There is no way to describe the joy of…

— Valentina Tereshkova

I believe in fairy tales. They are the basis of all our performance of storytelling and film-making - when we twist the…

— Charles Sturridge

Fiction allows us to slide into these other heads, these other places, and look out through other eyes. And then in the…

— Neil Gaiman

He had read books, newspapers and magazines. He knew that if you ran away you sometimes met bad people who did bad…

— Neil Gaiman

Yet what keeps me from dissolving right now into a complete fairy-tale shimmer is this solid truth, a truth which has veritably…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

Yea, and if some god shall wreck me in the wine-dark deep, even so I will endure… For already have I suffered…

— Homer

When I wrote the eight fairy tales that appear in 'Horse, Flower, Bird' I was working toward a completely new form of…

— Kate Bernheimer

Seventeen years after its intial release, The Empire Strikes Back is still as thrilling and involving as ever. Because of the high…

— James Berardinelli

All that Lenin learned about business from the tales of his comrades who occasionally sat in business offices was that it required…

— Ludwig von Mises

With smoking axle hot with speed, with steeds of fire and steam, Wide-waked To-day leaves Yesterday behind him like a dream. Still,…

— John Greenleaf Whittier

A heartwarming tale of Christmas past that's chock full of all the wit and hilarity we admire in America's favorite humorist--Mark Twain.…

— Gilbert King

“We are all tellers of tales, and we seek to provide our scattered and often confusing experiences with a sense of coherence…

— Dan P. McAdams

My writing has to excite people and depict or include their experiences. That's part of my process - to go out and…

— Chuck Palahniuk

Less and less frequently do we encounter people with the ability to tell a tale properly. More and more often there is…

— Walter Benjamin

It’s my own fault, really. For believing in fairy tales. Not that I ever mistook them for actual historical fact, or anything.…

— Meg Cabot

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

— Homer

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

— Marie de France

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

— Jay Roach

Philosophy is the opposite of fairy tales

— Jostein Gaarder

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

— Erin Morgenstern

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

— Anonymous

The way to read a fairy tale is to throw yourself in.

— Anonymous

But wishes are only granted in fairy tales.

— Simone Elkeles