Best Tales Qoutes
1135 Tales quotes by 765 unique authors
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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
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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
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Independently of the curious circumstance that such tales should be found existing in very different countries and languages, which augurs a greater poverty of human…
— Walter Scott
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I foresee that the Andersen and Fairy Tale fashion will not last; none of these things away from general nature do.
— Mary Russell Mitford
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In a utilitarian age, of all other times, it is a matter of grave importance that fairy tales should be respected.
— Charles Dickens
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Fairy tales are experienced by their hearers and readers, not as realistic, but as symbolic poetry.
— Unknown Author
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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
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It is only in folk tales, children's stories, and the journals of intellectual opinion that power is used wisely and well to destroy evil. The…
— Noam Chomsky
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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
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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
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Fairy-tales are nice.
— Syd Barrett
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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
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Good Advice If your best friend's feeling tearful, Try not to be too cheerful. Just let her fill your ear full Of sad tales by…
— Unknown Author
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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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I believe in the truth of fairy-tales more than I believe in the truth in the newspaper.
— Lotte Reiniger
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Very often, I confess, the teller of dreams bores me. His dream could perhaps interest me if it were frankly worked on. But to hear…
— Gaston Bachelard
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When I write what publishers call 'fantasy' I am writing in what I think is the most important tradition of fiction: starting with Homer and…
— Janet Morris
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Those evening bells! those evening bells! How many a tale their music tells Of youth and home, and that sweet time When last I heard…
— Charles Lamb
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I'm removed in my real life, and unable to express certain things face to face. So I have always found myself in this fantasy world.…
— Jenny Lewis
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By turns sad and uplifting, Life in the Valley of Death tells the amazing tale of Alan Rabinowitz's courageous and spirited efforts to protect Burma's…
— Unknown Author
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Definitely they write themselves. It's an amazing experience. It's like the characters have come alive and are sitting on my shoulder talking to me, telling…
— R A Salvatore
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Delivers in such apt and gracious words that aged ears play truant at his tales; And younger hearings are quite ravished; So sweet and voluble…
— William Shakespeare
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A tale should be judicious, clear, succinct; The language plain, and incidents well link'd; Tell not as new what ev'ry body knows; and, new or…
— William Cowper
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History is not a nightmare from which. I am trying to awaken, but rather, a glorious tale which I wish to be cast in.
— Unknown Author
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They were written on cheap blue notebooks bought by poor women. I'm interested in folk tales in the way that medicine and magic in women's…
— Alice Hoffman
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