Tale Quotes

724 Tale quotes by 523 unique authors

Star Wars' is more fairy tale than true science fiction. — Mark Hamill
This isn't a fairy tale. It's New York City. — Alex Flinn
The Islamic conquest of India is probably the bloodiest story in history. It is a discouraging tale, for its evident moral is that civilization is… — Will Durant
It's an odd thing but when you tell someone the true facts of a mythical tale they are indignant not with the teller but with… — Josephine Tey
You discovered yourself and what really mattered only after you passed through the lens of the fairy tale, imposed on every human female and male… — Jonathan Lethem
Every success story is a tale of constant adaption, revision and change. A company that stands still will soon be forgotten. Trying to provoke positive… — Richard Branson
Anyone who loved Tuesdays with Morrie should delight in reading The Five People You Meet in Heaven. Mitch Albom has populated his larger-than-life tale with… — John Burnham Schwartz
Life to me is a bit of a (Brothers) Grimm fairy tale. — Alexander McQueen
My father once admonished me to master the laws that govern fine writing until I could weave my words into worlds. If ever I accomplish… — Brandon Mull
I'm always like, 'I can't believe I sound like my mother.' I remember running out of the house telling, 'Put your shoes on or you're… — Eileen Davidson
Actually everybody has a story, a fairy tale in their heart that they adhere to. — Phoebe Stone
Maybe it's a tired tale, but without an education, you're not going to go anywhere. — Buzz Bissinger
It is possible that our race may be an accident, in a meaningless universe, living its brief life uncared for, on this dark, cooling star:… — Clarence Day
O! useful may it be to have shewn, that, though the vicious can sometimes pour affliction upon the good, their power is transient and their… — Ann Radcliffe
England was merry England, when Old Christmas brought his sports again. 'Twas Christmas broach'd the mightiest ale; 'Twas Christmas told the merriest tale; A Christmas… — Walter Scott
Man passes away; his name perishes from record and recollection; his history is as a tale that is told, and his very monument becomes a… — Washington Irving
The pleased sea on a white-breasted shore-- A shore that wears on her alluring brows Rare shells, far brought, the love-gifts of the sea, That… — Alexander Smith
Talk health. The dreary, never-changing tale Of mortal maladies is worn and stale. You cannot charm, or interest, or please By harping in that minor… — Ella Wheeler Wilcox
No great, inspiring culture of the future can be built upon the moral principle of relativism. For at its bottom such a culture holds that… — Michael Novak
Misses! the tale that I relate This lesson seems to carry-- Choose not alone a proper mate, But proper time to marry. — William Cowper
Blest be those feasts, with simple plenty crowned, Where all the ruddy family around Laugh at the jests or pranks that never fail Or sigh… — Oliver Goldsmith
The stars were my best friends. The air was full of legends and phantoms, full of mythical and fairy tale creatures, which suddenly flew away… — Marc Chagall
In vain would I seek to discover Why sad and mournful am I, My thoughts without ceasing brood over A tale of the time gone… — Heinrich Heine
I hate To tell again a tale once fully told. — Homer
A tale of scandal is as fatal to the credit of a prudent lady as a fever is generally to those of the strongest constitutions.… — Richard Brinsley Sheridan

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