Fable Quotes

88 Fable quotes by 79 unique authors

The evil arising from mental improvement can be corrected only by a still further progress in that very improvement. Either morality is a fable, or… — Madame de Stael
The myriad-minded man, our, and all men's, Shakespeare, has in this piece presented us with a legitimate farce in exactest consonance with the philosophical principles… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Now shall I become a common tale, A ruin'd fragment of a worn-out world; Unchanging record of unceasing change. Eternal landmark to the tide of… — Hartley Coleridge
Did universal charity prevail, earth would be a heaven, and hell a fable. — Charles Caleb Colton
For kind of sophisticated art I'm interested in, the larger structural rebuke has to be so subtle that it has to be distributed at an… — Junot Diaz
All cartoon characters and fables must be exaggeration, caricatures. It is the very nature of fantasy and fable. — Walt Disney
It is a myth, not a mandate, a fable not a logic, and symbol rather than a reason by which men are moved. — Irwin Edman
Writers are notoriously unable to know about themselves. Faulkner thought 'The Fable' was his best novel. F. Scott Fitzgerald liked 'Tender Is the Night,' an… — Joyce Carol Oates
I envied those who could believe in a God and I distrusted them. I felt they were keeping their courage up with a fable of… — Graham Greene
I could end this with a moral, as if this were a fable about animals, though no fables are really about animals. — Margaret Atwood
Our country is the best country in the world. We are swimming in prosperity and our President is the best president in the world. We… — John Cheever
All the great masters have understood that there cannot be great art without the little limited life of the fable, which is always better the… — William Butler Yeats
History is always written by the winners. When two cultures clash, the loser is obliterated, and the winner writes the history books-books which glorify their… — Dan Brown
Life is this simple: we are living in a world that is absolutely transparent and the divine is shining through it all the time. This… — Thomas Merton
The day will come when the mystical generation of Jesus, by the Supreme Being as his father, in the womb of a virgin, will be… — Thomas Jefferson
There is a line of poetry, a sentence in a fable, a word in an essay, by which my existence is justified; find that line,… — Alberto Manguel
Fable has strong shoulders that carry far more truth than fact can. — Barry Hughart
Anarchism is not a romantic fable but the hardheaded realization, based on five thousand years of experience, that we cannot entrust the management of our… — Edward Abbey
India, the new myth--a collective fiction in which anything was possible, a fable rivalled only by the two other mighty fantasies: money and God. — Salman Rushdie
As though she had entered a fable, as though she were no more than words crawling along a dry page, or as though she were… — Salman Rushdie
The story of Terisa and Geraden began very much like a fable. She was a princess in a high tower. He was a hero come… — Stephen R. Donaldson
The significance of our lives and our fragile planet is then determined only by our own wisdom and courage. We are the custodians of life's… — Carl Sagan
… it wasn’t pretend, I wasn’t in a fairytale or a fable. I shut my eyes and absorbed the silent whoomp that always accompanies this… — Miranda July
There is, in fact, not much point in writing a novel unless you can show the possibility of moral transformation, or an increase in wisdom,… — Anthony Burgess
There are, after all, atheists who say they wish the fable were true but are unable to suspend the requisite disbelief, or who have relinquished… — Christopher Hitchens

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