Tale Quotes

724 Tale quotes by 523 unique authors

Malice, in its false witness, promotes its tale with so cunning a confusion, so mingles truths with falsehoods, surmises with certainties, causes of no moment… — Philip Sidney
The modern fairy tale ending is the reverse of the traditional one: A woman does not wait for Prince Charming to bring her happiness; she… — Susan Faludi
The Goldilocks Enigma is the idea that everything in the universe is just right for life, like the porridge in the fairy tale. — Paul Davies
Over the centuries we have transformed the ancient myths and folk tales and made them into the fabric of our lives. Consciously and unconsciously we… — Jack Zipes
Let this sad tale of death never be told without a tear: let every parent tell the shameful story to his listening children, till tears… — John Hancock
To captivate our varied and worldwide audience of all ages, the nature and treatment of the fairy tale, the legend, the myth have to be… — Walt Disney
Animals are unpredictable things, and so our life is unpredictable. It's a long tale of little triumphs and disasters and you've got to really like… — James Herriot
The magic is as wide as a smile and as narrow as a wink, loud as laughter and quiet as a tear, tall as a… — Walt Disney
I usually make up stories for my kids.I like to tell them stories and make up any kind of crazy to involve them in characters.… — Angelina Jolie
When you're late in a fairy tale, people wind up dead. And not true-love's-kiss, glass-coffin-nap-time dead. Really dead, the kind of dead you don't recover… — Mira Grant
PowerPoint presentations, the cesspool of data visualization that Microsoft has visited upon the earth. PowerPoint, indeed, is a cautionary tale in our emerging data literacy.… — Clive Thompson
The biggest fairy tale is that justice works because it doesn't. — Lauren Beukes
With Wings of the Butterfly, John Urbancik infuses his tale of shapeshifters, romance and pack rivalry with some unexpected and welcome surprises. Fluid prose, gore… — Kealan Patrick Burke
History is often the tale of small moments—chance encounters or casual decisions or sheer coincidence—that seem of little consequence at the time, but somehow fuse… — Scott Anderson
I try to keep deep love out of my stories because, once that particular subject comes up, it is almost impossible to talk about anything… — Kurt Vonnegut
No, the light is too intense; we do not yet have eyes that can see all the glory God has created. But maybe someday we… — Hans Christian Andersen
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
Usually, the fairy tale ends with the girl marrying the prince. But mine started as soon as the marriage was over. — Diane von Furstenberg
I've learned that I want what I deny. I want someone who is crazy about me, who treats me like a princess. I want the… — Selena Gomez
As I live and am a man, this is an unexaggerated tale - my dreams become the substances of my life. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Captain Cook discovered Australia looking for the Terra Incognita. Christopher Columbus thought he was finding India but discovered America. History is full of events that… — Umberto Eco
There must be possible a fiction which, leaving sociology and case histories to the scientists, can arrive at the truth about the human condition, here… — Ralph Ellison
When I went back to England after a year away, the country seemed stuck, dozing in a fairy tale, stifled by the weight of tradition. — Brian Eno
Why the fairy tale of Willie Mays making a brilliant World Series catch, and then dashing off to play stickball in the street with his… — Ernie Harwell
Nobody has any conscience about adding to the improbabilities of a marvelous tale. — Nathaniel Hawthorne

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