Allegory Quote by 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

Everything for me becomes allegory

— Charles Baudelaire

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

— Walter Benjamin

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 allegories.

— J. R. R. Tolkien

I don't like allegory.

— China Mieville

“However, I have also argued for allegory’s positive effects. It is a process that typically takes control away from the author of a narrative…

— Helen Morales

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

I cordially dislike allegory in all its manifestations...

— Anonymous

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

— Lydia Davis

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

Why, ever since Adam, who has got to the meaning of this great allegory - the world? Then we pygmies must be content to…

— Herman Melville