Fable Quotes
88 Fable quotes by 79 unique authors
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So when or you or I are made A fable, song, or fleeting shade; All love, all liking, all delight Lies drowned with us in…
— Robert Herrick
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Suspense films are often based on communication problems, and that affects all of the plot points. It almost gives it kind of a fable feeling.
— Ira Sachs
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Despite the strength of the feminist movement in the 1970s and beyond, a fable has persisted that educated women are rejected as marriage partners.
— Karen DeCrow
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Whosoever counts these Lays as fable, may be assured that I am not of his mind.
— Marie de France
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The moral of a fable is eternal. The moral of a story is temporary to a story.
— Yann Martel
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RIBROASTER, n. Censorious language by oneself concerning another. The word is of classical refinement, and is even said to have been used in a fable…
— Ambrose Bierce
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It is true, I deny the incomprehensible Trinity, and the fable regarding the fall of man, which is absurd in our day. It is true,…
— Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
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LORE, n. Learning --particularly that sort which is not derived from a regular course of instruction but comes of the reading of occult books, or…
— Ambrose Bierce
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You should never run from the truth - even if it don't suit you. The key is making sure it is the truth, not some…
— Uncle Phil
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All this time, we got the fable of sleeping beauty wrong. The prince didn't kiss her to wake her up. No one who's slept for…
— Paritoshik Sharma
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Sheer animated fantasy is still my first and deepest production impulse. The fable is the best storytelling device ever conceived, and the screen is its…
— Walt Disney
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I've twice died on the table, was nice, to pay the price, not many have been able, to take on this fable. Then come to…
— Massmurder
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I want to know how love can grow irrevocable and prove the fable true.A love exists that gives. And won't take back what's given.
— Sandra Cisneros
Who Wrote These Fable Quotes
79 authors contributed a total of 88 Fable Quotes, led by these top contributors: