Tale Quotes

• Having achieved and accomplished love... man... has become himself, his tale is told.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Love
  • Man
  • Achieved

• Nobody has any conscience about adding to the improbabilities of a marvelous tale.

  

  Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • Conscience
  • Nobody
  • Tale

• We love a tale of heroes and villains and conflicts requiring a neat resolution.

  

  Barry Ritholtz
  • Heroes
  • Conflicts
  • Villains

• An ambitious, surreal tale of the love between a young Arab girl sold into marriage and the orphan boy she adopts, 'Habibi' spans multiple eras of conflict and change, stretching the lifetimes of its two protagonists over many centuries.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • Change
  • Marriage
  • Conflict

• Guy Rivers, a conventional piece as regards the love affair which makes a part of the plot, is a tale of deadly strife between the laws of Georgia and a fiendish bandit.

  

  Carl Clinton Van Doren
  • Piece
  • Strife
  • Bandit

• If to some my tale seems foolishness I am content that such could count me fool.

  

  Sophocles
  • Count
  • Foolishness
  • Tale

• My father once admonished me to master the laws that govern fine writing until I could weave my words into worlds. If ever I accomplish that feat, I will sign my name to the tale.

  

  Brandon Mull
  • Master
  • My Father
  • Govern

• A sense of humor is rare. It isn't telling a joke about how there are three ways to get to heaven. It's being in a restaurant and hearing someone say, Everyone's got their tale of woe, and then turning around and saying, Unfortunately, in life, there's more woe than tail.

  

  Jack Roy
  • Life
  • Heaven
  • Joke

• I am not a storyteller . . . not like the others. I only have one tale to tell.

  

  Kate Morton
  • Storyteller
  • Tale

• Nature shows us only the tail of the lion. But there is no doubt in my mind that the lion belongs with it even if he cannot reveal himself to the eye all at once because of his huge dimension.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Nature
  • Shows
  • Lion

• Yea, and if some god shall wreck me in the wine-dark deep, even so I will endure… For already have I suffered full much, and much have I toiled in perils of waves and war. Let this be added to the tale of those.

  

  Homer
  • War
  • Suffered
  • Tale

• A tale from which pieces have been raked out is like a fire that has been poked. One does not know the operation has been performed, but everyone feels the effect.

  

  Rudyard Kipling
  • Operation
  • Performed
  • Poked

• Had we lived I should have had a tale to tell of the hardihood, endurance and courage of my companions which would have stirred the heart of every Englishman. These rough notes and our dead bodies must tell the tale.

  

  Robert Falcon Scott
  • Heart
  • Courage
  • Companies

• Falsehood flies, and truth comes limping after it, so that when men come to be undeceived, it is too late; the jest is over, and the tale hath had its effect.

  

  Jonathan Swift
  • Truth
  • Falsehood
  • Tale

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

  

  Marina Tsvetaeva
  • Experience
  • Record
  • Tale

• Now it is a strange thing, but things that are good to have and days that are good to spend are soon told about, and not much to listen to; while things that are uncomfortable, palpitating, and even gruesome, may make a good tale, and take a deal of telling anyway.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Things
  • Strange
  • Listen

• What tale do you like best to hear?' 'Oh, I have not much choice! They generally run on the same theme - courtship; and promise to end in the same catastrophe - marriage.

  

  Charlotte Bronte
  • Marriage
  • Choice
  • Hear

• I began my tale in the hope that I might produce something to interest the young (perchance, also, the old) in a most momentous case—the total abolition of the African slave-trade. I close it with the prayer that God may make it a tooth in the file which shall eventually cut the chain of slavery, and set the black man free.

  

  R. M. Ballantyne
  • Hope
  • Interest
  • Produce

• A rousing tale of techno-geek rebellion, as necessary and dangerous as file sharing, free speech, and bottled water on a plane.

  

  Scott Westerfeld
  • Water
  • Speech
  • Plane

• 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
  • Secrets
  • Turn
  • Good Will

• But all this world is like a tale we hear - Men's evil, and their glory, disappear.

  

  Abolqasem Ferdowsi
  • Evil
  • Glory
  • Tale

• A truly nonviolent man would never live to tell the tale of atrocities. He would have laid down his life on the spot in non-violent resistance.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Resistance
  • Tale
  • Atrocities

• ... I feel certain that his tale is true. Feeling that certainty, I befriend him. As long as that certainty shall last, I will befriend him. And if any consideration could shake me in this resolve, I should be so ashamed of myself for my meanness, that no man's good opinion - no, nor no woman's - so gained, could compensate me for the loss of my own.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Consideration
  • Befriend
  • Good Opinion

• If you stretch your imagination, I'll tell you all a tale, about a time when everything wasn't up for sale.

  

  Tom Petty Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
  • Time
  • Imagination
  • Stretch

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