Tale Quotes

724 Tale quotes by 523 unique authors

Life has been some combination of fairy-tale coincidence and joie de vivre and shocks of beauty together with some hurtful self-questioning. — Sylvia Plath
Rather than teasing the buyers, we may blame the society in which they lived for setting up a situation where the purchase of ornate cabinets… — Alain de Botton
Only those who truly love and who are truly strong can sustain their lives as a dream. You dwell in your own enchantment. Life throws… — Ben Okri
Why cover the same ground again? ... It goes against my grain to repeat a tale told once, and told so clearly. — Homer
This was not a fearie tale. This was not the movies. This was life. It hurt more. It was excruciating. It was excruciatingly beautiful. — Francesca Lia Block
I cannot bear not to know the end of a tale. I will read the most trivial things – once commenced – only out of… — A. S. Byatt
In the fairy tale, an incomprehensible happiness rests upon an incomprehensible condition. A box is opened and all evils fly out. A word is forgotten… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
At the end of the day faith is a funny thing. It turns up when you don't really expect it. Its like one day you… — Zane Grey
I Need a Good Book I need a good story. I need a good book. The kind that explodes Off the shelf. I need some… — John Lithgow
Tell the story that's been growing in your heart, the characters you can't keep out of your head, the tale story that speaks to you,… — Jennifer Weiner
The supreme adventure is being born. There we do walk suddenly into a splendid and startling trap... When we step into the family, by the… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Well — when I write my book, and tell the tale Of my adventures — all these little stars That shake out of my cloak… — Cyrano de Bergerac
In his dream she was sick and he cared for her. The dream bore the look of sacrifice but he thought differently. He did not… — Cormac McCarthy
Consider it: Who but God could have dreamed a tale so absurd and so heartless? — Mark Slouka
So it ends as I guessed it would,' his thoughts said, even as it fluttered away; and it laughed a little within him ere it… — J.R.R. Tolkien
The more truly we can see life as a fairytale, the more clearly the tale resolves itself into war with the dragon who is wasting… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
The glory of a good tale is that it is limitless and fluid; a good tale belongs to each reader in its own particular way. — Stephen King
Your tale, sir, would cure deafness. — William Shakespeare
Lastly, she pictured to herself how this same little sister of hers would, in the after-time, be herself a grown woman; and how she would… — Lewis Carroll
If art is not to be life-enhancing, what is it to be? Half the world is feminine--why is there resentment at a female-oriented art? Nobody… — May Sarton
Our subconscious works in metaphors, stories, and word play. That's why a particular story or movie may mean more to some people than to others.… — Kristine Kathryn Rusch
A sum of money is a leading character in this tale about people, just as a sum of honey might properly be a leading character… — Kurt Vonnegut
So we make stories of our own, in fevered and envious imitation of our Maker, hoping that we'll tell, by chance, what God left untold.… — Clive Barker
Children being children, however, the grotesque Hopping Pot had taken hold of their imaginations. The solution was to jettison the pro-Muggle moral but keep the… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
Arraigned at my own bar, Memory having given her evidence of the hopes, wishes, sentiments I had been cherishing since last night-- of the general… — Charlotte Bronte

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