Tale Quotes

724 Tale quotes by 523 unique authors

Its good to leave each day behind, like flowing water, free of sadness. Yesterday is gone and its tale told. Today new seeds are growing. — Unknown Author
I've always had a keen sense of history. My father was an antiques dealer and he used to bring home boxes full of treasures, and… — Sara Sheridan
Kindred’s tale is a romantic, mature, and lyrical collage of heaven, hell, and a magical royal legend. The combination is divinely—and demonically—inspired. — Alethea Kontis
How it's Done is a richly woven tale of a young woman who discovers what it really means to be an adult. This story, told… — Han Nolan
Perhaps the image you have of the devil is a cartoon of a man in a red suit with horns a pointy tale and a… — David Jeremiah
The story had held us, round the fire, sufficiently breathless, but except the obvious remark that it was gruesome, as, on Christmas Eve in an… — Henry James
First, inevitably, the idea, the fantasy, the fairy tale. Then, scientific calculation. Ultimately, fulfillment crowns the dream. — Konstantin Tsiolkovsky
Sleepy Hollow had a lot of action in it, even though it was a fairy-tale movie. — Colleen Atwood
I loved [fairy stories] so, and my mother weighed down by grief had given up telling me them. At Nohant I found Mmes. d'Ardony's and… — George Sand
A child gets moral notions from the fairy-tales he delights in, as do his elders from tale and verse. — Charlotte Mason
They hold their great balls in the open air, in what is called a fairy-ring. For weeks afterward you can see the ring on the… — James M. Barrie
There's no way to explain to a child that the line between good and evil isn't nearly as black and white as a fairy tale… — Jodi Picoult
The boat dipped and swayed and sometimes took on water, but it did not sink; the two brothers had waterproofed it well. I do not… — Stephen King
You cannot make a social-consciou s picture in which you say that the intermediary between the hand and the brain is the heart. I mean,… — Fritz Lang
Success is a tale of obstacles overcome, and for every obstacle overcome, an excuse not used. — Robert Breault
Then it's settled," Harriet said. "We shall work out the smaller roles later.""What about you?" Elizabeth demanded."Oh, I'm going to be the goddess of the… — Julia Quinn
As in 'The Three Billy Goats Gruff'?" The skull howled with laughter. "You just got your ass handed to you by a nursery tale?""I wouldn't… — Jim Butcher
Sometime let gorgeous Tragedy In sceptred pall come sweeping by, Presenting Thebes, or Pelops' line, Or the tale of Troy divine. — John Milton
Guy Rivers, a conventional piece as regards the love affair which makes a part of the plot, is a tale of deadly strife between the… — Carl Clinton Van Doren
The square is your friend. Behind every missed lay-up is a tale of the square neglected. — Digger Phelps
In the tale, in the telling, we are all one blood. — Ursula K. Le Guin
Marco Polo tells the tale of The Old Man in the Mountains and how he recruits new members to his Band of Assassins by means… — W. Somerset Maugham
"What is good for a bootless bene?" With these dark words begins my tale; And their meaning is, Whence can comfort spring When prayer is… — William Wordsworth
There are so may ways to kills yourself, they're just old-fashioned with their permanganate: do you think I'd take permanganate? I wouldn't want to burn… — Christina Stead
Such is life, my fellow-mummers-just like a poor player that bluffs and feints his hour upon the stage, and then cheapens down to mere nonentity.… — Joseph Furphy

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