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Tales Quotes

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The tales of our exploits will survive as long as the human voice itself.
Augustus

Authors on Tales Quotes: Homer Erin Morgenstern Cass Sunstein Aesop Horace Isak Dinesen William Shakespeare Lord Byron Richard Brinsley Sheridan J. R. R. Tolkien Natalia Kills Sophocles Johann Kaspar Lavater Alfonso Cuaron Nicolas Winding Refn Christopher Hitchens Ian Brown Maureen Johnson Thomas Haynes Bayly Mark Lawrence Amanda Hocking Jacqueline Carey Rudyard Kipling John Heywood Ursula K. Le Guin Greg van Eekhout Brom Jackie Chan Ella Wheeler Wilcox Stephanie Zacharek John Avlon W. H. Auden James Elroy Flecker
2.
Cautionary tales were fantastic in the '70s.
Alfonso Cuaron

3.
If history is deprived of the Truth, we are left with nothing but an idle, unprofitable tale.
Polybius

4.
An old paleontological in joke proclaims that mammalian evolution is a tale told by teeth mating to produce slightly altered descendant teeth.
Stephen Jay Gould

5.
The teller of a mirthful tale has latitude allowed him. We are content with less than absolute truth.
Charles Lamb

6.
History is a tragedy, not a morality tale.
I. F. Stone

7.
Who better than an Irishman can understand the Indians, while still being stirred by tales of the US cavalry?
John Ford

8.
We have been poisoned by fairy tales.
Anais Nin

9.
As one tale ends, so another begins.
Jackie Chan

10.
Sing your song. Dance your dance. Tell your tale.
Frank McCourt

11.
I have tales to tell, but I don't tell them. Discretion. Discretion.
Gregory Peck

12.
Chess is a fairy tale of 1001 blunders.
Savielly Tartakower

13.
Every constellation’s like its own fairy tale.
Lauren Miller

14.
For the spell is older than experience. For the tale is older than the record.
Marina Tsvetaeva

15.
I know little of women. But I've heard dread tales.
Harold Pinter

16.
Shark Tales: How I turned $1,000 into a Billion Dollar Business.
Barbara Corcoran

17.
Each of us embodies, in a particular tale and clothed in the garments of time & place, universal truth and everlasting life.
J. R. R. Tolkien

18.
Life to me is a bit of a (Brothers) Grimm fairy tale.
Alexander McQueen

19.
...a tale of too many cooks in the defence.
Ian Brown

20.
Evolution is a fairy tale for grown-ups.
Duane Gish

21.
But are not the dreams of poets and the tales of travellers notoriously false?
H. P. Lovecraft

22.
A tale in everything.
William Wordsworth

23.
Tales From Topographic Oceans is like a woman's padded bra.
Rick Wakeman

24.
A drink is shorter than a tale
Omar Khayyam

25.
To hunt for symbols in a fairy tale is absolutely fatal.
W. H. Auden

26.
To me, a fairy tale seems to have become reality.
Nelly Sachs

27.
There are few joys to compare with the telling of a well-told tale.
Charles de Lint

28.
Tell tales out of school.
John Heywood

29.
A false tale often betrays itself.
Aesop

30.
For my teachers, unfortunately, certain things were, as they are for you, only tales of power
Carlos Castaneda

31.
Listen not to a tale-bearer or slanderer, for he tells thee nothing out of good-will; but as he discovereth of the secrets of others, so he will of thine in turn.
Socrates

32.
All of mathematics is a tale about groups.
Henri Poincare

33.
A riveting, exciting and thoroughly compelling tale of adventure.
John Grisham

34.
A good tale evil told were better untold, and an evil take well told need none other solicitor.
Thomas More

35.
A touch of science, even bogus science, gives an edge to the superstitious tale.
V. S. Pritchett

36.
Even nightingales can’t be fed on fairy tales.
Ivan Turgenev

37.
Religions are the great fairy tales of conscience.
George Santayana

38.
I don't believe in fairy tales, but I believe in you and me
Natalia Kills

39.
I was a great reader of fairy tales. I tried to read the entire fairy tale section of the library.
Beverly Cleary

40.
Every tale is not to be believed.
Aesop

41.
Only a fairy tale calls a constant condition 'happiness'.
Jacob Burckhardt

42.
For pines are gossip pines the wide world through And full of runic tales to sigh or sing.
James Elroy Flecker

43.
One tell-tale sign of a Wingnut: they always confuse partisanship with patriotism.
John Avlon

44.
Misses! the tale that I relate This lesson seems to carry-- Choose not alone a proper mate, But proper time to marry.
William Cowper

45.
Dead women tell no tales. Sad men write them down.
Daniel Handler

46.
What so tedious as a twice-told tale?
Homer

47.
Of all tales 'tis the saddest--and more sad, Because it makes us smile.
Lord Byron

48.
Well, Company of Wolves was about that literally, about fairy tales.
Neil Jordan

49.
The tales of Elfland do not stand or fall on their actuality but on their truthfulness, their speaking to the human condition, the longings we all have for the Faerie Other.
Jane Yolen

50.
American cinema is international like the fairy tales were international.
Bertrand Tavernier