Tale Quotes

724 Tale quotes by 523 unique authors

This is true happiness: to have no ambition and to work like a horse as if you had every ambition. To live far from men,… — Nikos Kazantzakis
There is no such thing as a true tale. Truth has many faces and the truth is like to the old road to Avalon; it… — Marion Zimmer Bradley
One describes a tale best by telling the tale. You see? The way one describes a story, to oneself or to the world, is by… — Neil Gaiman
It is the tale, not he who tells it. — Stephen King
This was not a fairy-tale castle and there was no such thing as a fairy-tale ending, but sometimes you could threaten to kick the handsome… — Terry Pratchett
Thy loving smile will surely hail The love-gift of a fairy tale. — Lewis Carroll
A tale is told of twin boys born to different mothers. One is dark by nature, the other light. One is rich, the other poor.… — Matthew Woodring Stover
For, while the tale of how we suffer, and how we are delighted, and how we may triumph is never new, it always must be… — James A. Baldwin
But the tale or narrative set in the past may have its particular time-free value; and the candid reader will not misunderstand me, will not… — Patrick O'Brian
Fairy tale does not deny the existence of sorrow and failure: the possibility of these is necessary to the joy of deliverance. It denies (in… — J.R.R. Tolkien
At every moment of our lives, we all have one foot in a fairy tale and the other in the abyss. — Paulo Coelho
And the story of love is a long sad tale ending in graves. — Jack Kerouac
October knew, of course, that the action of turning a page, of ending a chapter or of shutting a book, did not end a tale.… — Neil Gaiman
And if all others accepted the lie which the Party imposed—if all records told the same tale—then the lie passed into history and became truth.… — George Orwell
The fairy tale emanates from specific struggles to humanize bestial and barbaric forces, which have terrorized our minds and communities in concrete ways, threatening to… — Jack Zipes
The way to read a fairy tale is to throw yourself in. — Wystan Hugh Auden
Fairy tales were not my escape from reality as a child; rather, they were my reality -- for mine was a world in which good… — Terri Windling
I like to get ten pages a day, which amounts to 2,000 words. That’s 180,000 words over a three-month span, a goodish length for a… — Stephen King
She has that quality, does the Hudson, as I imagine all great rivers do: the deep, abiding sense that those activities what take place on… — Caleb Carr
Hello, I'm Leonard Nimoy. The following tale of alien encounters is true. By true I mean false. It's all lies. But they're entertaining lies and… — Leonard Nimoy
But all this world is like a tale we hear - Men's evil, and their glory, disappear. — Abolqasem Ferdowsi
As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters. I wish you all very… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
I keep thinking about a tale my nurse used to read to me about a bird whose wings are pinned to the ground. In the… — Shannon Hale
Nothing ever begins. There is no first moment; no single word or place from which this or any story springs. The threads can always be… — Clive Barker
One day he said, "I'll tell this town How it feels to be an unfunny clown." And he told them all why he looked so… — Shel Silverstein

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