Ancient Quote by Voltaire

History is fables agreed upon.

— Voltaire

What is history but a fable agreed upon?

— Napoleon Bonaparte

History is not fable agreed upon, but truth disagreed upon.

— Ivan Panin

We were breaking away from anything that linked us to this world, but by doing that those ideas remained even stronger. Fables represent the…

— Alex Abreu

I think it better to keep a profound silence with regard to the Christian fables, which are canonized by their antiquity and the credulity…

— Frederick The Great

Some of the beliefs and legends bequethed to us by Antquity are so universally and firmly established that we have become accustomed to consider…

— Frederick Soddy

[The Bible is] a mass of fables and traditions, mere mythology.

— Mark Twain

Human beings have always told their histories and truths through parable and fable. We are inveterate storytellers.

— Beeban Kidron

Fable is more historical than fact, because fact tells us about one man and fable tells us about a million men.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

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

History is a combination of reality and lies. The reality of History becomes a lie. The unreality of the fable becomes the truth.

— Jean Cocteau

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