Tale Quotes

724 Tale quotes by 523 unique authors

Time in its irresistible and ceaseless flow carries along on its flood all created things and drowns them in the depths of obscurity. . .… — Unknown Author
History is a tragegy, not a morality tale. — I F Stone
Therefore, teaching, talk and tale, however lucid or fascinating, effect nothing until self-activity be set up; that is, self-education is the only possible education; the… — Charlotte Mason
No love-story has ever been told twice. I never heard any tale of lovers that did not seem to me as new as the world… — Eleanor Farjeon
A tale without love is like beef without mustard: insipid. — Anatole France
A politician's record is like a tin kettle to a dog's tale - it's a noisy appendage, wich makes the dog conspicuous and invites everybody… — Unknown Author
Your life is a sacred journey. It is about change, growth, discovery, movement, transformation, continuously expanding your vision of what is possible, stretching your soul,… — Unknown Author
Life was a fairy-tale, then, it is a tragedy now. When I was 43 and John Hay 41 he said life was a tragedy after… — Mark Twain
The difference between a fairy tale and a sea tale? A fairy tale starts with "Once upon a time". A sea tale starts with "… — Edith Widder
Conversation is the blood of baseball. It flows through the game, an invigorating system of anecdotes. Ballplayers are tale tellers who have polished their malarkey… — Thomas Boswell
I want to have the fairy-tale life with a wife and three or four kids. It will come. — Cris Judd
There is no sadder tale in the annals of architecture than the virtual disappearance of the defining architectural form of the Modern Movement - publicly… — Martin Filler
I got into reading a lot of noir and a lot of thrillers as well, and I really admired the plotting about those and the… — Joe Abercrombie
A tale is born from an image, and the image extends and creates a network of meanings that are always equivocal. — Italo Calvino
Everything is for sale in Hollywood; the fairy tale, the costume, the pumpkin, the footman and the mice. — Amanda Eliasch
Charles Wang, owner of the New York Islanders, serves as something of a cautionary tale in terms of how heavy owner involvement can sink a… — Don Yaeger
Whenever Disney asks if you want to do a fairy tale musical, you say yes. — Robert Lopez
Most writers are drawn to what is unknown, rather than what is clear in any tale. — Hannah Kent
Since I grew up, I have never deliberately used any technique at all other than the physical shaping of my tale so that it more… — Patrick O'Brian
The history of the Internet is not, as some people have tried to make it, a libertarian just-so story. It is a messy tale in… — Virginia Postrel
Many still believe that conducting political and economic reforms at the same time is not an Asian way. But this is a fairy-tale. We broke… — Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj
You see the fairy tale - four minutes of glory at the Olympics. I thought my life would be cake after that. — Dorothy Hamill
For me, any fiction of nobles and swords necessarily has to be a story of corruption, injustice and savagely violent conflict - because any other… — Richard K. Morgan
My mother was a reporter, and though she quit when they had kids, she still loved it. She told me about the people at the… — Candace Camp
We love a tale of heroes and villains and conflicts requiring a neat resolution. — Barry Ritholtz

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