Books Quote by Richard Whately Download Open image “A certain class of novels may with propriety be called fables.” — Richard Whately ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.0 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Books Certain Class Fables May Novel Propriety
What stories are new? All types of all characters march through all fables. — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
They (fables) teach us that human beings learn and absorb ideas and concepts through narrative, through stories, not through lessons or theoretical speeches. — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
“Martin, fables are possibly one of the most interesting literary forms ever invented. Do you know what they teach us? Moral lessons? No. They… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
A novel is what you call something that won't sell if you call it poems or short stories. — Walker Percy Copy Share Image
The thing about 'Fable' is that it was such a rich world. It was, well, what the name says it is. It's all about… — Peter Molyneux Copy Share Image
I am thoroughly tired of the fable style of narrative and shall do my best to get up something entirely different and possibly little… — George Ade Copy Share Image
Well, the most incredible thing about 'Fable' is the fact that there are lots of examples where people play the game in a certain… — Peter Molyneux Copy Share Image
“If you listen to the fables in your childhood, that is great; if you listen to the fables when you grow up, that is… — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
It is worth noticing that those who assume an imposing demeanor and seek to pass themselves off for something beyond what they are, are… — Richard Whately Copy Share Image
Of Rhetoric various definitions have been given by different writers; who, however, seem not so much to have disagreed in their conceptions of the… — Richard Whately Copy Share Image
The power of duly appreciating little things belongs to a great mind... — Richard Whately Copy Share Image
Falsehood, like the dry-rot, flourishes the more in proportion as air and light are excluded. — Richard Whately Copy Share Image
Of all hostile feelings, envy is perhaps the hardest to be subdued, because hardly any one owns it even to himself, but looks out… — Richard Whately Copy Share Image
Geologists complain that when they want specimens of the common rocks of a country, they receive curious spars; just so, historians give us the… — Richard Whately Copy Share Image
Reason can no more influence the will, and operate as a motive, than the eyes which show a man his road can enable him… — Richard Whately Copy Share Image
Eloquence is relative. One can no more pronounce on the eloquence of any composition than the wholesomeness of a medicine, without knowing for whom… — Richard Whately Copy Share Image
Falsehood, like poison, will generally be rejected when administered alone; but when blended with wholesome ingredients may be swallowed unperceived. — Richard Whately Copy Share Image
Though not always called upon to condemn ourselves, it is always safe to suspect ourselves. — Richard Whately Copy Share Image
I think a new world will arise out of the religious mists when we approach our Bible with the idea that it is not… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
If I had a dollar for every time I couldn’t sleep, I could buy a billion locks and finally read a book in peace. — Aesop Rock Copy Share Image
If what I write is literature, I guess you'd better emphasize the 'litter.' — Lydia Lunch Copy Share Image
My sentences got sharper and my stories more efficient, and I gradually learned to imagine the reader more clearly and to empathize with that… — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
“Within the pages of books, I've journeyed to Mandalay, the Milky Way and Santa Fe, without once having to leave my armchair.” — Kevin Ansbro Copy Share Image
“Tacitus did not write a most dangerous book. His readers made it so.” — Christopher K. Krebs Copy Share Image
“Take some books and read; that’s an immense help; and books are always good company if you have the right sort.” — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
Reader, if you are gifted with nerves like mine, aspire to any character but that of a wit. — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
I have many who keep me going, I am very fortunate in this sense. There is nothing like a child who knows more about… — Floyd Cooper Copy Share Image
I think books in which people are really happy and things are going well are probably the most challenging novels there are to write,… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
