Allegory Quote by Naguib Mahfouz

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 so since I grew old and wary enough to detect its presence.…

— Anonymous

“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 dislike Allegory – the conscious and intentional allegory – yet any attempt to explain the purport of myth or fairytale must use allegorical…

— J.R.R. Tolkien

I don't like allegory.

— China Mieville

[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

Each character is an allegory for every aspect of human existence.

— Vanna Bonta

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

— Joseph Addison

I cordially dislike allegory in all its manifestations...

— Anonymous

“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

I don't like allegories.

— J. R. R. Tolkien

Everything for me becomes allegory

— Charles Baudelaire