Tale Quotes

724 Tale quotes by 523 unique authors

That's the thing about being the product of happily marries parents, You grow up thinking the fairy tale is real, and more than that, you… — Nicholas Sparks
Nothing is too long or too short either if you have a true and interesting tale and what I call a "graphic" writing style combined… — Charles Portis
There is a tale...It tells of the days when a blight hung over our land. Nothing prospered. Nothing flourished. Not even zucchini would grow. — Cameron Dokey
The value of life lies not in the length of days, but in the use we make to them; a man may live long, yet… — Barbara Taylor Bradford
That's how you get deathless, volchitsa. Walk the same tale over and over, until you wear a groove in the world, until even if you… — Catherynne M. Valente
That's the fairy tale. You meet, you fall in love, you kiss, and neither of you is revolted by it. You get married and have… — Sarah Addison Allen
When we stop believing in gods we can start believing in their stories, I retort. There are of course no such things as miracles, but… — Salman Rushdie
Comedy and tragedy are so mixed up in life, Gilbert. The only thing that haunts me is that tale of the two who lived together… — Lucy Maud Montgomery
How I keep trying to force our story into a fairy tale, but from the beginning, it's been more like a nursery rhyme." "Bizarre and… — Shannon Hale
My conscience hath a thousand several tongues, And every tongue brings in a several tale, And every tale condemns me for a villain. Perjury, perjury,… — William Shakespeare
That means life itself is a fairy tale. Like the characters, we all live and love and search for a happily-ever-after. — Gena Showalter
What tale do you like best to hear?' 'Oh, I have not much choice! They generally run on the same theme - courtship; and promise… — Charlotte Bronte
Sometimes I think that love is one big fairy tale. I wonder if people who say they are in love, if – really – they’ve… — Elizabeth Chandler
In fairy tales there's always one person who is made for one other, and they find each other and live happily ever after. Cal was… — Cate Tiernan
I tell you this as a cautionary tale: beware of getting what you want. It's bound to disappoint you. — Jodi Picoult
Fairy tales do not give the child his first idea of bogey. What fairy tales give the child is his first clear idea of the… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
And in what fairy tale would John ever be any sane person's idea of Prince Charming anyway? He was the opposite of charming. More like… — Meg Cabot
I call her Wild Woman, for those very words, wild and woman, create llamar o tocar a la puerta, the fairy-tale knock at the door… — Clarissa Pinkola Estes
In that moment, Lux felt complete for the first time. He hadn’t even realized anything was missing until he met her, but now, with her… — Amanda Hocking
How could you do nothing to him, if you fought so hard?” she asked. “I’m lust and he’s wrath!” he yelled. “I’m a lover, he’s… — Amanda Hocking
We have a long way to go to being the perfect couple, we certainly don’t live the fairy tale marriage, he doesn’t shower me with… — Cecelia Ahern
There were hundreds of them spread across the floor, each telling its own tale of triumph or sadness, each letter representing a phase in her… — Cecelia Ahern
It's easy to believe in magic when you're young. Anything you couldn't explain was magic then. It didn't matter if it was science or a… — Charles de Lint
Everything you look at can become a fairy tale and you can get a story from everything you touch. — Hans Christian Andersen
You once told me that I make you believe in the impossible. You make me believe in love, which I’d given up on. Thank you… — Simone Elkeles

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