Tale Quotes

724 Tale quotes by 523 unique authors

A lie took two parties - the weaver of the tale and the sucker who so badly wanted to believe it. — Jodi Picoult
I watched our friends' wary, intelligent faces droop at our tale. Their shock was a mere shadow of our own, resembling more the goodwilled imitation… — Ian Mcewan
Every fairy tale, it seems, concludes with the bland phrase "happily ever after." Yet every couple I have ever known would agree that nothing about… — Catherine Gilbert Murdock
And ever, as the story drained The wells of fancy dry, And faintly strove that weary one To put the subject by, "The rest next… — Lewis Carroll
One of my heroes, G.K. Chesterton, said, "The old fairy tales endure forever. The old fairy tale makes the hero a normal human boy; it… — Regina Doman
For this too I learned, that a storyteller's tale may end, but history goes on always. These events, so distant in legend, play a part… — Jacqueline Carey
Then a person has only one tale?” No, some have two or three separate ones or more,” Fleet said. “Some people have many tales. Sometimes… — Chris Wooding
The old tale of Sleeping Beauty might end happily in French or English, but he was in Russia, and only a fool would want to… — Orson Scott Card
And our lady friend, she thinks life works like a fairy tale.' Well, that’s harmless, isn’t it?' Yeah, but in fairy tales, when someone dies...… — Terry Pratchett
Vlad had found himself longing to encounter those of his own kind, to travel to the streets of Elysia-that far away world, but after a… — Heather Brewer
Everything in creation has its appointed painter or poet and remains in bondage like the princess in the fairy tale 'til its appropriate liberator comes… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
So maybe it wasn't the fairy tale. But those stories weren't real anyway. Mine were. — Sarah Dessen
Now it is a strange thing, but things that are good to have and days that are good to spend are soon told about, and… — J.R.R. Tolkien
And that's the way of a real tale. Take any one that you're fond of. You may know, or guess, what kind of a tale… — J.R.R. Tolkien
Blood in the water I sing, and one who shed it: deadliest hunger I sing, and one who fed it- weaving the ancient-most tale of… — Diane Duane
Fiction cannot recite the numbing numbers, but it can be that witness, that memory. A storyteller can attempt to tell the human tale, can make… — Jane Yolen
Every fairy tale offers the potential to surpass present limits, so in a sense the fairy tale offers you freedoms that reality denies. — Azar Nafisi
Over and over, we start our own tales, compose our own stories, whether our lives are short or long. Until at last all our beginnings… — Cameron Dokey
Victor Vigny: It is like the old fairy tale. The boy saves the princess; they fall in love. He invents a flying machine - along… — Eoin Colfer
...which fairy-tale princess ever chose her maid over her prince? — Kate Morton
There was a tale he had read once, long ago, as a small boy: the story of a traveler who had slipped down a cliff,… — Neil Gaiman
Your tale is of the longest," observed Monks, moving restlessly in his chair. It is a true tale of grief and trial, and sorrow, young… — Charles Dickens
The road and the tale have both been long, would you not say so? The trip has been long and the cost has been high...… — Stephen King
Fiction allows us to slide into these other heads, these other places, and look out through other eyes. And then in the tale we stop… — Neil Gaiman
In the fairy tale you mentioned last night, I would probably be the villain. But it's possible the villain would treat you far better than… — Lisa Kleypas

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