"An allegory is not meant to be taken……" — Naguib Mahfouz
"An allegory is not meant to be taken literally. There is a great lack of comprehension on the part of some readers."
More Allegory Quotes
- She's as headstrong as an allegory on the banks of the Nile. — Richard Brinsley Sheridan
- A man's life of any worth is a continual allegory, and very few eyes can see the mystery of his… — John Keats
- No words can express how much the world owes to sorrow. Most of the Psalms were born in the wilderness.… — George MacDonald
- Why, ever since Adam, who has got to the meaning of this great allegory - the world? Then we pygmies… — Herman Melville
- Much scientific truth proved to be as hypothetical as poetic allegory. The relationshiip of those rod-connected blue and red balls… — Tom Robbins
- A little allegory of the soul - wherever it hides, God will find it. — Eileen Atkins
- It's like Tolstoy said. Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story. — Haruki Murakami
- I cordially dislike allegory in all its manifestations, and always have done since I grew old and wary enough to… — J.R.R. Tolkien
- I wrote The Same Sea not as a political allegory about Israelis and Palestinians. I wrote it about something much… — Amos Oz
- The reason for you complaint lies, it seems to me, in the constraint which your intellect imposes upon your imagination.… — Friedrich Schiller
- An acquired taste, this dense Jabberwocky-ish word salad is a political allegory about a populace that's been pharmaceutically duped into… — Manohla Dargis
- I think cinema is closer to allegories than to reality. It's closer to our dreams. — Manuel Puig