Allegory Quote by J. R. R. Tolkien

I cordially dislike allegory in all its manifestations...

— Anonymous

I don't like allegory.

— China Mieville

I don't like allegories.

— 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

Everything for me becomes allegory

— Charles Baudelaire

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

— Lydia Davis

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

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 don't like the word 'allegorical', I don't like the word 'symbolic' - the word I really like is 'mythic', and people always think…

— William Golding

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

— Walter Benjamin

Narrow minds devoid of imagination. Intolerance, theories cut off from reality, empty terminology, usurped ideals, inflexible systems. Those are the things that really frighten…

— Haruki Murakami