Tales Quotes - Page 3

One tell-tale sign of a Wingnut: they always confuse partisanship with patriotism.

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

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

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.

For pines are gossip pines the wide world through And full of runic tales to sigh or sing.

Only a fairy tale calls a constant condition 'happiness'.

What so tedious as a twice-told tale?

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

Dead women tell no tales. Sad men write them down.

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

American cinema is international like the fairy tales were international.

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

It is the tale, not he who tells it.

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.

History is nothing if not an epic tale of missed opportunities.

But al be that he was a philosophre, Yet hadde he but litel gold in cofre.

Talk health. The dreary, never-changing tale Of mortal maladies is worn and stale. You cannot charm, or interest, or please By harping in that minor chord, disease. Say you are well, or all is well with you, And God shall hear your words and make them true.

In the tale, in the telling, we are all one blood.

Idle man, chases after fairy tales.

The biggest awakening is the awakening from the childish deceptions and the invented tales of the religion.

It could have been like a fairy tale. But fairy tales aren't real. Things don't work like that. There's a price for everything.

I tell you this as a cautionary tale: beware of getting what you want. It's bound to disappoint you.

It is not a bad thing in a tale that you understand only half of it.

Who tells a finer tale than any of us. Silence does.

A woman and a mouse, they carry a tale wherever they go.