Tale Quotes
724 Tale quotes by 523 unique authors
-
I'd imagine my wedding as a fairy tale... huge, beautiful and white.
— Paris Hilton
-
The original fairy tale was about the youngest sister going into a room in the castle and finding all the bodies of the wives that…
— Alice Hoffman
-
Maybe my fairy tale has a different ending than I dreamed it would. But that's OK.
— Kim Kardashian
-
I am your fairy tale. Your dream. Your wishes and desires, and I am your thirst and your hunger and your food and your drink.
— Klaus Kinski
-
Hollywood always represents this big dream and fairy tale in people's minds, but to me, it's just hard work. Of course, we play fairy tale…
— Olga Kurylenko
-
Aside from that reservation, a fictive tale even has the advantage of manifesting symbolic necessity more purely to the extent that we may believe its…
— Jacques Lacan
-
The teller of a mirthful tale has latitude allowed him. We are content with less than absolute truth.
— Charles Lamb
-
Having achieved and accomplished love... man... has become himself, his tale is told.
— D. H. Lawrence
-
Never trust the artist. Trust the tale. The proper function of the critic is to save the tale from the artist who created it.
— D. H. Lawrence
-
Some of the evil of my tale may have been inherent in our circumstances. For years we lived anyhow with one another in the naked…
— T.E. Lawrence
-
The value of life lies not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them... Whether you find satisfaction in life…
— Michel de Montaigne
-
I have definitely gone through my ups and downs and faced my adversity and my nay-sayers, but managed to do all right. It is a…
— Steve Nash
-
Obsessed by a fairy tale, we spend our lives searching for a magic door and a lost kingdom of peace.
— Eugene O'Neill
-
I like science fiction. Arthur C. Clarke, Philip K. Dick and Vonnegut, and I really like Margaret Atwood, 'The Handmaid's Tale.' And you know, so…
— Conor Oberst
-
I'm not a big fan of kids' movies that have this knowing snarkiness to them or this post-modern take on storytelling. I think that sails…
— John C. Reilly
-
'Snow White' is an old fairy tale, so obviously the idea of vanity and obsession with youth is long-standing. With today's science, people have become…
— Julia Roberts
-
To me, a fairy tale seems to have become reality.
— Nelly Sachs
-
Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player, that struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and then is heard no more; it is…
— William Shakespeare
-
Life is as tedious as twice-told tale, vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.
— William Shakespeare
-
Is it not the business of the conductor to convey to the public in its dramatic form the central idea of a composition; and how…
— John Philip Sousa
-
If you see the magic in a fairy tale, you can face the future.
— Danielle Steel
-
All men are children, and of one family. The same tale sends them all to bed, and wakes them in the morning.
— Henry David Thoreau
-
To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow, Creeps in this petty pace from day to day, To the last syllable of recorded time; And all our yesterdays…
— William Shakespeare
-
Great heroes need great sorrows and burdens, or half their greatness goes unnoticed. It is all part of the fairy tale.
— Peter S. Beagle
-
That same night, I wrote my first short story. It took me thirty minutes. It was a dark little tale about a man who found…
— Khaled Hosseini
Who Wrote These Tale Quotes
523 authors contributed a total of 724 Tale Quotes, led by these top contributors: