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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 William Shakespeare Lord Byron Richard Brinsley Sheridan J. R. R. Tolkien Erin Morgenstern Cass Sunstein Aesop Isak Dinesen Horace Marie de France Bertrand Tavernier Nathaniel Hawthorne Daniel Handler Stephen Jay Gould John Ford Linda Gordon Annabel Tollman Ivan Turgenev Charles Caleb Colton Omar Khayyam Polybius Vladimir Nabokov Marina Tsvetaeva Alexander McQueen Harold Pinter Denis Diderot Steve Aylett Matt Prior William Wordsworth Henri Poincare Alan Bold Kate Morton
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.
Life to me is a bit of a (Brothers) Grimm fairy tale.
Alexander McQueen

17.
Shark Tales: How I turned $1,000 into a Billion Dollar Business.
Barbara Corcoran

18.
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

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.
A drink is shorter than a tale
Omar Khayyam

24.
Tales From Topographic Oceans is like a woman's padded bra.
Rick Wakeman

25.
To me, a fairy tale seems to have become reality.
Nelly Sachs

26.
There are few joys to compare with the telling of a well-told tale.
Charles de Lint

27.
To hunt for symbols in a fairy tale is absolutely fatal.
W. H. Auden

28.
All of mathematics is a tale about groups.
Henri Poincare

29.
A riveting, exciting and thoroughly compelling tale of adventure.
John Grisham

30.
A good tale evil told were better untold, and an evil take well told need none other solicitor.
Thomas More

31.
Tell tales out of school.
John Heywood

32.
A false tale often betrays itself.
Aesop

33.
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

34.
For my teachers, unfortunately, certain things were, as they are for you, only tales of power
Carlos Castaneda

35.
Religions are the great fairy tales of conscience.
George Santayana

36.
I don't believe in fairy tales, but I believe in you and me
Natalia Kills

37.
Every tale is not to be believed.
Aesop

38.
I was a great reader of fairy tales. I tried to read the entire fairy tale section of the library.
Beverly Cleary

39.
A touch of science, even bogus science, gives an edge to the superstitious tale.
V. S. Pritchett

40.
Even nightingales can’t be fed on fairy tales.
Ivan Turgenev

41.
Well, Company of Wolves was about that literally, about fairy tales.
Neil Jordan

42.
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

43.
American cinema is international like the fairy tales were international.
Bertrand Tavernier

44.
The square is your friend. Behind every missed lay-up is a tale of the square neglected.
Digger Phelps

45.
My fairy-tale life ended the moment I wanted to apply for a passport.
Joan Chen

46.
Edinburgh is an experience A city of enormous gifts Whose streets sing of history Whose cobbles tell tales.
Alan Bold

47.
Having achieved and accomplished love, then the man passes into the unknown. He has become himself, his tale is told.
D. H. Lawrence

48.
The fairy tale always takes place in worlds that are between, unidentifiable.
Nicolas Winding Refn

49.
He who always prefaces his tale with laughter, is poised between impertinence and folly.
Johann Kaspar Lavater

50.
Only a fairy tale calls a constant condition 'happiness'.
Jacob Burckhardt