Tales Quotes - Page 5

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

All my tales are true, drawn from life, and a life story is not a tidy thing.

UNMARKED is both gorgeous and hideous. A frightening and disturbing tale spun with great beauty. Absolutely riveting.

And every shepherd tells his tale Under the hawthorn in the dale.

Are you a minor character in my tale, or am I a lesser figure in yours?

I have no time to explain now. It is a thrilling tale, I wish to do it justice.

This is a fairy tale with teeth and claws.

Shun an inquisitive man, he is invariably a tell-tale.

He tells old wives' tales much to the point.

It is tedious to tell again tales already plainly told.

Why cover the same ground again? ... It goes against my grain to repeat a tale told once, and told so clearly.

The wordy tale, once told, were hard to tell again.

I hate To tell again a tale once fully told.

All nations love the same jests and tales, Jews, Christians, and Mahometans, and the same translated suffice for all.

In vain would I seek to discover Why sad and mournful am I, My thoughts without ceasing brood over A tale of the time gone by.

As a reader, I tend not to get too much from tales of unrelenting grimness.

Overnight Success Happens Only in Fairy Tales, Trashy Novels, and Bad Movies.

The truest tales require time and familiarity to become what they are.

Like stepping into a fairy tale under a curtain of stars.

How easy it is to tell tales!

Trust the tale, not the teller.

Dead men tell no tales, Mary.

Carlton Mellick III is one of bizarro fiction's most talented practitioners, a virtuoso of the surreal, science fictional tale.

History is a tragegy, not a morality tale.

A tale, like the universe, they tell us, expands ceaselessly each time you examine it, until there’s finally no telling exactly where it begins, or ends, or where it places you now.