Allegory Quote by Charles Baudelaire

I don't like allegory.

— China Mieville

I cordially dislike allegory in all its manifestations...

— Anonymous

Allegories, when well chosen, are like so many tracks of light in a discourse, that make everything about them clear and beautiful.

— Joseph Addison

[Allegory] is a flight by which the human wit attempts at one and the same time to investigate two objects, and consequently is fitted…

— Sarah Fielding

I don't like allegories.

— J. R. R. Tolkien

I cordially dislike allegory in all its manifestations, and always have done since I grew old and wary enough to detect its presence.

— J. R. R. Tolkien

I cordially dislike allegory in all its manifestations, and always have done so since I grew old and wary enough to detect its presence.…

— Anonymous

Allegories are, in the realm of thought, what ruins are in the realm of things.

— Walter Benjamin

I don't feel I have to struggle against allegory. I let the readers do the interpreting.

— Lydia Davis

An allegory is not meant to be taken literally. There is a great lack of comprehension on the part of some readers.

— Naguib Mahfouz

“I have been all things, black and white ,short and tall, rich and poor, orphaned, homeless, ostracized, Gay, Asian, Jewish , Moslem, ridiculed and…

— Lenita Vangellis

Most times when you try to be all things to all people, you end up being nothing.

— John Mayer