Tale Quotes

724 Tale quotes by 523 unique authors

There have been brilliant satires about the tax bureaucracy before, from the Beatles song ‘The Taxman’ to the film ‘Harry’s War,’ but in some ways… — John Fund
Yes, hell exists. It is not a fairy tale. One indeed burns there. This hell is not at the end of life. It is here.… — Frederick Leboyer
I was just then going through a healthy reaction from the orthodoxy of my youth; religion had become for me not so much a possession… — Laurence Housman
Bicycling beyond the Divide did what all great books do: it told me about me. In its tale of a journey made by two different… — Bret Lott
I took lots of photographs and had planned to write a treatise on how it worked, but I quickly got bored with that idea and… — Kit Williams
I always wanted the fairy tale, but now I want someone who is a great partner. — Elisabeth Rohm
Well the wedding in the words of the Archbishop of Canterbury was a fairy tale and there was a huge public impress, investment of goodwill,… — Anthony Holden
The Italian prose tale had begun to exercise that influence as early as Chaucer's time: but circumstances and atmosphere were as yet unfavourable for its… — George Saintsbury
Now, I just made an animated movie a few years ago, 'The Tale of Desperaux', and that had twelve hundred shots in it. Twelve hundred… — Gary Ross
Ben Farmer brings a legend to life in Evangeline, evoking with grace and panache the travails of the Acadians in mid-eighteenth century America from Nova… — Keith Donohue
A woman and a mouse, they carry a tale wherever they go. — Gelett Burgess
Who tells a finer tale than any of us. Silence does. — Isak Dinesen
The film drama is the opium of the people…down with bourgeois fairy-tale scenarios…long live life as it is! — Dziga Vertov
That's the thing about a folk tale: It is always addressing incredibly key issues about how you should live and what the right thing to… — Benh Zeitlin
At the centre of every fairy tale lay a truth that gave the story its power — Susan Wiggs
Patti Callahan Henry seamlessly combines mystery, family love, and personal journey all in one engrossing tale. From the intriguing beginning to the touching ending, The… — Diane Chamberlain
Story of O is a fairy tale for another world, a world where some part of me lived for a long time, a world that… — Anne Desclos
Europe is often held up as a cautionary tale, a demonstration that if you try to make the economy less brutal, to take better care… — Paul Krugman
There's nothing in this world can make me joy: Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale Vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man;… — William Shakespeare
I foresee that the Andersen and Fairy Tale fashion will not last; none of these things away from general nature do. — Mary Russell Mitford
The tale of the Monkey Girl gave me wat I needed most at a critical time in my life: the image of the creative and… — Midori Snyder
Careful the spell you cast, not just on children. Sometimes the spell may last Past what you can see And turn against you... Careful the… — Stephen Sondheim
With a tale, forsooth, he cometh unto you; with a tale which holdeth children from play, and old men from the chimney corner. — Philip Sidney
All those "and they lived happily ever after" fairy tale endings need to be changed to "and they began the very hard work of making… — Unknown Author
The Dead and Those About to Die is a gripping, first-hand account of the desperate battle for Omaha Beach on D-Day by the legendary 1st… — Unknown Author

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