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140 Fables quotes by 119 unique authors

The minute that you bring a unicorn into a story, you know that it's a fairy tale or a fable, because unicorns don't exist as… — Gloria Vanderbilt
Crowds are somewhat like the sphinx of ancient fable: It is necessary to arrive at a solution of the problems offered by their psychology or… — Gustave Le Bon
The Bible account of the creation of Eve is a preposterous fable. — Thomas Huxley
Read my little fable: He that runs may read. Most can raise the flowers now, For all have got the seed. — Alfred Lord Tennyson
The artist is the child in the popular fable, every one of whose tears was a pearl. — Heinrich Heine
I have watched constantly that in our work the highest moral and spiritual standards are upheld, whether my productions deal with fable or with stories… — Walt Disney
Under the desert sun, in the dogmatic clarity, the fables of theology and the myths of classical philosophy dissolve like mist. The air is clean,… — Edward Abbey
All that remains is a fate whose outcome alone is fatal. Outside of that single fatality of death, everything, joy or happiness, is liberty. A… — Albert Camus
The fable runs that the gods mix our pains and pleasure in one cup, and thus mingle for us the adulterate immortality which we alone… — Amos Bronson Alcott
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
My parents read to me a lot as a kid, and I started writing very early, probably spurred on by Aesop's fables. Then they gave… — Jeff VanderMeer
There is nothing in the world more shameful than establishing one's self on lies and fables. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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
The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages is preserved into perpetuity by a nation's proverbs, fables, folk sayings and quotations. — William Feather
Fables should be taught as fables, myths as myths, and miracles as poetic fantasies. To teach superstitions as truths is a most terrible thing. The… — Hypatia
How many things we held yesterday as articles of faith which today we tell as fables. — Michel de Montaigne
I was brought up, as a lot of kids are, on 'Aesop's Fables,' 'Brothers Grimm,' 'La Fontaine,' all those sorts of things. Hans Christian Andersen… — Michael Morpurgo
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
Nobody sees the obvious, nobody observes the ordinary. There are more miracles in a square yard of earth than in all the fables of the… — Robert Anton Wilson
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
Think what you would have been now, if instead of being fed with tales and old wives' fables in childhood, you had been crammed with… — Charles Lamb

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