Tale Quotes

724 Tale quotes by 523 unique authors

Don't Let Him Know is a rich, evocative and brilliantly told tale of family, of loyalties, and of love that must stay secret. Sandip Roy… — Abraham Verghese
I think every beautiful tale in the world hides the truth and reveals it little by little. — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
It never ceases to amaze us that when we were in kindergarten they taught us that a frog turning into a prince was a nursery… — Ron Carlson
Just finished 'Secrecy' - truly enthralling both as a love story and as a tale of suspense - but much more than both. — Philip Pullman
Nature is a book, a letter, a fairy tale (in the philosophical sense) or whatever you want to call it. — Johann Georg Hamann
The Unfortunate Importance of Beauty is a farcical fictional meditation on female beauty structured as a mash-up of an old episode of Friends, a fairy… — Maureen Corrigan
Anthony Ryan is a new fantasy author destined to make his mark on the genre. His debut novel, Blood Song, certainly has it all: great… — Michael J. Sullivan
At the end of the day, acting is all about telling lies. We are professional imposters and the audience accept that. We've made this deal… — Pete Postlethwaite
It won't happen yet, Ellen mused, mashing cooked carrots for Jill's lunch. Breakups seldom do. It will unfold slowly, one little tell-tale symptom after another… — Sylvia Plath
The past history of human belief is a cautionary tale. We have killed thousands of our fellow human beings because we believed they had signed… — Michael Crichton
The mere mention of the Farakka Express, which jerks its way eastward each day from Delhi to Calcutta, is enough to throw even a seasoned… — Tahir Shah
He left the name at which the world grew pale, To point a moral, or adorn a tale. — Samuel Johnson
O Reader! had you in your mind Such stores as silent thought can bring, O gentle Reader! you would find A tale in everything. — William Wordsworth
Our show is less about a girl who is doing miracles and more about the domino effect of this girl's life, and how everyone else… — Amber Tamblyn
In the fairy tale the painting represents the here and now. The book is actually divided into five sections, through which the key character, the… — Kit Williams
Then you know that Sam was the true hero of the tale,' Sayna said. 'That he faced far greater and more terrible foes than he… — Jim Butcher
Just as Hanukkah candles are lighted one by one from a single flame, so the tale of the miracle is passed from one man to… — Judah Leon Magnes
It inspired all sorts of whims and fancies that I ultimately wove into a fairy tale complete with muse, the earth, the moon, some famous… — Kit Williams
Had we lived, I should have had a tale to tell of the hardihood, endurance and courage of my companions which would have stirred the… — Robert Falcon Scott
It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness. As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but… — Seneca the Younger
A fairy tale is the kind of story in which one king goes to another king to borrow a cup of sugar — Angela Carter
I was amazed by this person who, even though she had everything, would go to feed the homeless and visit sick children and Aids victims.… — Mario Testino
To call everything that appears illogical, fantasy, fairy tale, or chimera would be practically to admit not understanding nature. — Marc Chagall
Surely I'm not the only person to ask the obvious question: How different, really, is Mr. Madoff's tale from the story of the investment industry… — Paul Krugman
I want to believe in the fairy tale. — Monica Murphy

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