Tale Quotes

724 quotes by 523 authors

There are few joys to compare with the telling of a well-told tale. — Charles de Lint
An honest tale speeds best being plainly told. — William Shakespeare
Your clothes smell heavily of clothing. Your den is filled with low-hanging palls of fresh air. The only rattle in your car is the sound… — Robert Breault
I am all the time talking about you, and bragging, to one person or another. I am like the Ancient Mariner, who had a tale… — Edna St. Vincent Millay
A drink is shorter than a tale — Omar Khayyam
It needs great art, learning to play with one's own life, to play on one's own life. Meditation is the art to create music from… — Rajneesh
A criminal trial is like a cultural in-flight test in which society projects its own history, fears, impatience, insolence, clemency, insecurities, dreams and nightmares upon… — Ron Franscell
It's almost a sort of fairy story tale, just what a novelist would write about a discovery. — Charles Hard Townes
I believe in God, who can respond to prayers, to whom we can give trust and without whom life on this earth would be without… — Nevill Francis Mott
In Grimm's fairy tales, you kiss a frog and in two seconds, it becomes a prince. That is a fairy tale. In evolution, you kiss… — D. James Kennedy
Evolution is a fairy tale for grown-ups. — Duane Gish
'Tis an old tale, and often told; But did my fate and wish agree, Ne'er had been read, in story old, Of maiden true betray'd… — Walter Scott
Records told the same tale, then the lie passed into history and became truth. — George Orwell
A tale is told of a man in Paris during the upheaval in 1948, who saw a friend marching after a crowd toward the barricades.… — Abbott Lawrence Lowell
In the tale, in the telling, we are all one blood. Take the tale in your teeth, then, and bite till the blood runs, hoping… — Ursula K. Le Guin
In science there is a dictum: don't add an experiment to an experiment. Don't make things unnecessarily complicated. In writing fiction, the more fantastic the… — Ben Bova
Each of us embodies, in a particular tale and clothed in the garments of time & place, universal truth and everlasting life. — J.R.R. Tolkien
Chess is a fairy tale of 1001 blunders. — Savielly Tartakower
Each one of us needs time and space for recollection, meditation and calmness.... Thanks be to God that this is so! In fact, this need… — Pope Benedict XVI
Moons and Junes and Ferris wheels The dizzy dancing way you feel As every fairy tale comes real I've looked at love that way. — Joni Mitchell

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523 authors contributed a total of 724 Tale Quotes, led by these top contributors: