Tales Quotes
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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
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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
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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
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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
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The tales of our exploits will survive as long as the human voice itself.
Augustus
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All great novels are great fairy tales.
Vladimir Nabokov
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Ireland is where strange tales begin and happy endings are possible.
Charles Haughey
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It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury; signifying nothing.
William Shakespeare
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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
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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
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With thee all tales are sweet; each clime has charms; earth - sea alike - our world within our arms.
Lord Byron
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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
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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
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A sad tale's best for winter. I have one of sprites and goblins.
William Shakespeare
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A good tale evil told were better untold, and an evil take well told need none other solicitor.
Thomas More
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If ancient tales say true, nor wrong these holy men.
Lord Byron
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Obscure as still remains the origin of that 'genre' of romance to which the tales before us belong, there is little doubt that their models, if not their originals, were once extant at Constantinople.
Joseph Jacobs
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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
