Tales Quotes - Page 4

Is there anything more tedious than the often repeated tales of the old and forgetful?

Fairy tales only happen in movies." -George Melies from The Invention of Hugo Cabret

This act is an ancient tale new told; And, in the last repeating, troublesome, Being urged at a time unseasonable.

A sad tale's best for winter. I have one of sprites and goblins.

All great novels are great fairy tales.

I have to believe in fairy tales and I have to believe in love.

At the centre of every fairy tale lay a truth that gave the story its power

The tale is often wiser than the teller.

A key and a strangler - this is all a simple tale requires.

The bigger question to ask about 300 is why, for a supposedly rousing tale of heroism, it's so curiously unaffecting.

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

You perceive, do you not, that our national fairy tales reflect the inmost desires of the Briton and the Gaul?

There never was a scandalous tale without some foundation.

Tale-bearers are as bad as the tale-makers.

What they don't know is that I went over the edge years ago, and lived to tell the tale.

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

The tales we tell ourselves about ourselves makes us who we are.

Examples draw where precept fails, and sermons are less read than tales.

Consider it: Who but God could have dreamed a tale so absurd and so heartless?

All lives are tales. Some spread, and grow in the telling. Others are just told between us and the gods, muttered back and forth behind our days, but those tales grow too and shake us just as fierce.

Whether this tale be true or false, none can tell, for none were there to witness it themselves.

He who would tell divers tales must know how to vary the tune.

I'm sure you can even find ménage à trois in medieval tales.

A schoolboy's tale, the wonder of an hour!

Whether histories have a happy ending or not depends on when the chronicler ends the tale.