Tale Quotes

724 Tale quotes by 523 unique authors

This is a test, isn't it? It's like choosing out of three caskets in a fairy tale. Everyone knows the rules. You never choose the… — Sophie Kinsella
Everything is a tale, Martin. What we believe, what we know, what we remember, even what we dream. Everything is a story, a narrative, a… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon
She felt as if she had strayed into a fairy tale, as full of peril as of wonder, a place where anything could happen. — Kate Forsyth
The ache of empty arms was an old tale to you. — Sara Teasdale
And Death spoke to them —’” “Sorry,” interjected Harry, “but Death spoke to them?” “It’s a fairy tale, Harry!” “Right, sorry. Go on. — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
My tale doesn't end there, for the end has yet to be written. — Unknown Author
The therapist can interpret, advise, provide the emotional acceptance and support that nurtures personal growth, and above all, he can listen. I do not mean… — Sheldon B. Kopp
Away! Away! The spell of arms and voices: the white arms of roads, their promise of close embraces and the black arms of tall ships… — James Joyce
As no two people see the world the same way, all trips from here to there are imaginary; all truth is a tale I am… — Brion Gysin
Yet what keeps me from dissolving right now into a complete fairy-tale shimmer is this solid truth, a truth which has veritably built my bones… — Elizabeth Gilbert
The people in this house, I felt, and I included myself, were like characters each from a different grim and gruesome fairy tale. None of… — Lorrie Moore
He said,'Trust yourself, mon ami. You are not your friend with his so-sad tale. And Anita is not human. Through us she is more than… — Laurell K. Hamilton
Cassandra always hid when she read, though she never quite knew why. It was as if she couldn't shake the guilty suspicion that she was… — Kate Morton
Yea, and if some god shall wreck me in the wine-dark deep, even so I will endure… For already have I suffered full much, and… — Homer
There is always a place where, if you listen closely in the night, you will hear a mother telling a story and at the end… — Edwidge Danticat
Sing your song. Dance your dance. Tell your tale. — Frank McCourt
It could have been like a fairy tale. But fairy tales aren't real. Things don't work like that. There's a price for everything. — Maureen Johnson
Father may have been wanting in some things, but here he was masterful. Night upon night, I marveled at his power to hold listeners in… — Seth Grahame-Smith
I had read a Tale of Two Cities and found it up to my standards as a romantic novel. She opened the first page and… — Maya Angelou
Who would condescend to strike down the mere things that he does not fear? Who would debase himself to be merely brave, like any common… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
I had become so quiet and so small in the grass by the pond that I was barely noticeable, hardly there. I sat there watching… — Richard Brautigan
Unhappy man! Do you share my maddness? Have you drunk also of the intoxicating draught? Hear me; let me reveal my tale, and you will… — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
True love, like any other strong and addicting drug, is boring — once the tale of encounter and discovery is told, kisses quickly grow stale… — Stephen King
Ay me! for aught that ever I could read, could ever hear by tale or history, the course of true love never did run smooth. — William Shakespeare
There was a small wooden gazebo built out over the water; Isabelle was sitting in it, staring out across the lake. She looked like a… — Cassandra Clare

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