Tales Quotes

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

Cautionary tales were fantastic in the '70s.

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

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

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

History is a tragedy, not a morality tale.

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

We have been poisoned by fairy tales.

As one tale ends, so another begins.

Sing your song. Dance your dance. Tell your tale.

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

Chess is a fairy tale of 1001 blunders.

Every constellation’s like its own fairy tale.

For the spell is older than experience. For the tale is older than the record.

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

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

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

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

...a tale of too many cooks in the defence.

Evolution is a fairy tale for grown-ups.

But are not the dreams of poets and the tales of travellers notoriously false?

A tale in everything.

A drink is shorter than a tale

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

To hunt for symbols in a fairy tale is absolutely fatal.

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

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

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.

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

All of mathematics is a tale about groups.

A riveting, exciting and thoroughly compelling tale of adventure.

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

Tell tales out of school.

A false tale often betrays itself.

A touch of science, even bogus science, gives an edge to the superstitious tale.

Even nightingales can’t be fed on fairy tales.

Religions are the great fairy tales of conscience.

I don't believe in fairy tales, but I believe in you and me

Every tale is not to be believed.

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

What so tedious as a twice-told tale?

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

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

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.

American cinema is international like the fairy tales were international.

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

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

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

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

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