Character Quote by Oscar Micheaux

A story with a moral appended is like the bill of a mosquito. It bores you, and then injects a stinging drop to irritate…

— O. Henry

I never fixed a story. I didn't make judgments, I let the listener make judgments. When I got to the end of the story,…

— Tom T. Hall

If a story seems moral, do not believe it. If at the end of a war story you feel uplifted, or if you feel…

— Tim O'Brien

Well, the moral of the story, The moral of this song, Is simply that one should never be Where one does not belong. So…

— Bob Dylan

When romances do really teach anything, or produce any effective operation, it is usually through a far more subtle process than the ostensible one.…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

Every story has a moral you just need to be clever enough to find it - the Dutchess

— Lewis Carroll

“This story has no moral, this story has no end, this story only goes to show, that there ain’t no good in men…”

— Charlie Cochet

A true war story is never moral.

— Tim O'Brien

I often feel that with a crime story, the moral standards have to be higher. You're deal with real victims and with real consequences.

— David Grann

Every step is basically a word, especially with musical theatre, because you're not doing it for dance's sake, you're promoting a story - and,…

— Ann Reinking

“A true war story is never moral. It does not instruct, nor encourage virtue, nor suggest models of proper human behavior, nor restrain men…

— Tim O'Brien

“A lot of (children's literature) beginners get bogged down by morals. A moral should never be driving the story. And a moral should never…

— Patty Smith