Tales Quotes
-
Sainthood emerges when you can listen to someone's tale of woe and not respond with a description of your own.
Andrew Mason -
You've heard tales of beauty and the beast. How a fair maid falls in love with a monster and sees the beauty of his soul beneath the hideous visage. But you've never heard the tale of the handsome man falling for the monstrous woman and finding joy in her love, because it doesn't happen, not even in a story-teller's tale.
Karen Maitland
-
Suspicions that the mind, of itself, gathers, are but buzzes; but suspicions that are artificially nourished and put into men's heads by the tales and whisperings of others, have stings.
Francis Bacon -
Many, whose hearts are conquered by acute spite, roll out balanced tales from their own heart, which do not balance when you weigh words against deeds.
Lucius Accius -
Pay heed to the tales of old wives. It may well be that they alone keep in memory what it was once needful for the wise to know.
J. R. R. Tolkien -
The tales of our exploits will survive as long as the human voice itself.
Augustus -
All great novels are great fairy tales.
Vladimir Nabokov -
Over and over, we start our own tales, compose our own stories, whether our lives are short or long. Until at last all our beginnings come down to just one end, and the tale of who we are is done.
Cameron Dokey
-
It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury; signifying nothing.
William Shakespeare -
It was one of those hot, silent nights, when people sit at windows listening for the thunder which they know will shortly break; when they recall dismal tales of hurricanes and earthquakes; and of lonely travellers on open plains, and lonely ships at sea, struck by lightning.
Charles Dickens -
Let my inspiration flow, in token lines suggesting rhythm, that will not forsake me, till my tale is told and done.
Robert Hunter Grateful Dead -
And so, from hour to hour, we ripe and ripe. And then, from hour to hour, we rot and rot; And thereby hangs a tale.
William Shakespeare -
He told them tales of bees and flowers, the ways of trees, and the strange creatures of the Forest, about the evil things and the good things, things friendly and things unfriendly, cruel things and kind things, and secrets hidden under brambles.
J. R. R. Tolkien -
Ireland is where strange tales begin and happy endings are possible.
Charles Haughey
-
With thee all tales are sweet; each clime has charms; earth - sea alike - our world within our arms.
Lord Byron -
A sad tale's best for winter. I have one of sprites and goblins.
William Shakespeare -
A good tale evil told were better untold, and an evil take well told need none other solicitor.
Thomas More -
What a poor appearance the tales of poets make when stripped of the colours which music puts upon them, and recited in simple prose.
Plato -
If ancient tales say true, nor wrong these holy men.
Lord Byron -
American cinema is international like the fairy tales were international.
Bertrand Tavernier
-
Edinburgh is an experience A city of enormous gifts Whose streets sing of history Whose cobbles tell tales.
Alan Boldun -
If your best friend's feeling tearful, Try not to be too cheerful. Just let her fill your ear full Of sad tales by the score. And when she is through, She'll feel as good as.
Beatrice Schenk de Regniers -
Among the tales of sorrow and of ruin that came down to us from the darkness of those days there are yet some in which amid weeping there is joy and under the shadow of death light that endures. And of these histories most fair still in the ears of the Elves is the tale of Beren and Lúthien.
J. R. R. Tolkien -
Henny was beautifully, wholeheartedly vile: she asked no quarter and gave none to the foul world, and when she told her children tales of the villainies they could understand, it was not to corrupt them, but because, for her, the world was really so.
Christina Stead