Top 100 Moral Story Quotes
#1. I may do some good before I am dead
be a sort of success as a frightful example of what not to do; and so illustrate a moral story.
Thomas Hardy
#2. Moral of the story: Mortify yourself - when you are at your lowest, you feel ironically self-confident!
Felicia Day
#3. For as 'Wright's Ninth Rule of Writing' states, every story teaches a moral, whether intended by the author or not.
John C. Wright
#4. The story itself should force its moral upon you. You find out what the moral is by writing the story.
C.S. Lewis
#5. No. The moral of the story in so far as it has one is that cannibals can study logic, and that if you are going to leave the path, you better have your wits about you and know better than to trust the first scary old lady who talks to you in public.
Nick Harkaway
#6. The short story, free from the longuers of the novel is also exempt from the novel's conclusiveness
too often forced and false: it may thus more nearly than the novel approach aesthetic and moral truth.
Edith Wharton
#7. The idea of telling a story in reverse destabilises your ordinary moral reactions. That's one of the points of art - to challenge your preconceptions.
Vincent Cassel
#8. It was an origin story pedaled to the world, but unlike the various creation stories of the old religions, there was no rich culture, no moral code, no beauty.
T.L. Zalecki
#9. To recover the fatherhood idea, we must fashion a new cultural story of fatherhood. The moral of today's story is that fatherhoodis superfluous. The moral of the new story must be that fatherhood is essential.
David Blankenhorn
#10. And the moral is: If you ever find yourself in the wrong story, leave. - Mo Willems, Goldilocks and the Three Dinosaurs
Elisabeth Egan
#11. Just like in Jane Eyre, the moral of the story would be 'never forget that you're nothing but a sad sausage.
Fanny Britt
#12. I know there is a moral to this story, but I don't know what it is.
Nicole Krauss
#13. Moral of the story: try to get things right, figure out what's going wrong with the scenario, and don't give up.
Cody Lundin
#15. A lot of (children's literature) beginners get bogged down by morals. A moral should never be driving the story. And a moral should never be confused with a plot. You can't preach to kids, and you can't talk down to them, either. It's amazing how they sense condescension.
Patty Smith
#16. No moral to this story, you will be saying, and I am afraid it is true.
Joan Aiken
#17. The story of the betrayal of Jesus by Judas gave a moral and religious rationale to anti-Jewish sentiment, and that's what made it persistent and vicious.
Elaine Pagels
#18. And I found there were myriad definitions of this thing called tragedy that had wormed its way through the history of literature; and the simplest of all was this: that it is the story of a figure who, through some moral flaw or personal failing, falls through force of circumstance to his doom.
Helen Macdonald
#19. So the moral of the story is that the primary ingredient for a successful nation is guns.
Cory O'Brien
#21. I think a novelist must be more tender with living or 'real' people. The moral imperative of having been entrusted with their story looms before you every day, in every sentence.
Rick Bass
#22. And the moral of the story is I'm Thom Yorke.
Thom Yorke
#23. The good were worthy of note because they battled and that battle was a great story, whereas the evil were evil because of moral laziness, or weakness, and that was ultimately a dull and uninteresting affair.
Alexander McCall Smith
#24. The moral?" Hermes asked. "Goodness, you act like it's a fable. It's a true story. Does truth have a moral?
Rick Riordan
#25. All fables, indeed, have their morals; but the innocent enjoy the story.
Henry David Thoreau
#26. I enjoyed Old Man's War immensely. A space war story with fast action, vivid characters, moral complexity and cool speculative physics, set in a future you almost want to live into, and a universe you sincerely hope you don't live in already.
Ken MacLeod
#27. The moral to the story being: Mr. Binks was a cheating dickweasel, but, you know, marriage is compromise.
Gillian Flynn
#28. The moral of the story was that if you can talk, it's better not to tell the truth.
Louis De Bernieres
#29. With any story I write, I could actually write it from three or four different perspectives, which would end with a completely different moral at the end.
Tracey Emin
#30. The moral of the story: perceptions are everything. During each moment you are in contact with a customer, you are the organization.
Jan Carlzon
#31. You always fear when you're making a movie that has a moral to the story that people are going to reject the idea of being taught a lesson.
Christina Ricci
#32. If there is a moral to this part of the story, and I distrust morals in the same way that I distrust beginnings, it is simply this: know that with which you deal.
Neil Gaiman
#33. The moral of human life is never simple, and the moral of a story which aims only at being true to human life cannot be expected to be any more so.
James Anthony Froude
#34. It was not the job of a litigator to determine facts; it was his job to construct a story from those facts by which a clear moral conclusion would be unavoidable.
Graham Moore
#35. The story of the decadence of the cathedral as a moral power, a spiritual energizer in civilization, is the sad but inevitable story of dogmatism. It is the story of the struggle of free thought with bigotry, religion making common cause with the wrong side.
Jenkin Lloyd Jones
#36. A science fiction story is just an attempt to solve a problem that exists in the world, sometimes a moral problem, sometimes a physical or social or theological problem.
Ray Bradbury
#37. I'm not sure what the moral of the bathroom-stool story is. Perhaps this: it's a good idea to settle for a few loose ends, because even if everything in your life is connected to everything else, that way madness lies.
Lorna Sage
#38. Swaminathan had never thought that this story contained a moral. But now he felt that it must have one since the question paper mentioned it.
R.K. Narayan
#39. Love: the impossible combination of being IN the deep end and being OFF the deep end.
Jennifer Harrison
#40. We all hate moral ambiguity in some sense, and yet it is also absolutely necessary. In writing a story, it is the place where I begin.
Amy Tan
#41. I was recently told by a guy friend that red lipstick during the summer is distracting, and I said, "You need to shut up because I love red lips in the summer." Guys are stupid, moral of the story.
Brittany Snow
#42. Myth and fairy-story must, as all art, reflect and contain in solution elements of moral and religious truth (or error), but not explicit, not in the known form of the primary 'real' world.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#43. Take a guy who can walk on water, who can raise people from the dead, who can look at you and tell you what you had for breakfast ... if a guy like that can't find twelve trustworthy mates, who can? Stop at eleven and call it done, that's the moral of that story.
Liam Perrin
#44. The moral of a fable is eternal. The moral of a story is temporary to a story.
Yann Martel
#45. My life is my life and I will live it my way.
Time has failed to limit me
My faith and perseverance
Has defined New-found happiness and success for me .
Moral of the story
Dare to live your dreams
Ilika Ranjan
#46. A story with a moral appended is like the bill of a mosquito. It bores you, and then injects a stinging drop to irritate your conscience.
O. Henry
#47. So when it comes down to it, a calorie is a calorie is a calorie: There is only one moral of the story: burn as many damn calories as possible whenever you work out.
Jillian Michaels
#48. A bit ridiculous, but true. The moral of this story is to separate men and women when analyzing number of sexual organs.
Des MacHale
#49. I love to read things that have moral messages, and I love to hear stories where it's not just a hook, you have to follow the story, you have to listen to the message of the song, and get it and use it in your everyday life.
Valerie June
#50. True literature is more than just a story someone has told. It must provide the reader with the essence of the world on a moral, philosophical and emotional level.
Orhan Pamuk
#51. The moral of the story was not to wear a red shirt. Or go on away missions when you're the only one whose name isn't on the opening credits.
John Scalzi
#52. The kind of juvenile story I like best to write
and read, too, for the matter of that
is a good, jolly one, "art for art's sake," or rather "fun for fun's sake," with no insidious moral hidden away in it like a pill in a spoonful of jam!
L.M. Montgomery
#53. I'm big on story structure. I studied with John Truby, who mapped out story by means of moral wants and needs, and that's what I do. Hey, so does John Irving.
Caroline Leavitt
#54. Fantasy allows you bend the world and the situation to more clearly focus on the moral aspects of what's happening. In fantasy you can distill life down to the essence of your story.
Terry Goodkind
#55. But let that not be the moral of my story. True happiness doesn't come from simply getting married. I don't believe a woman's worth should be measured by whether or not she's married.
Holly Madison
#56. The moral of the story was to be careful whom you call your best friend because he or she may or may not feel the same way about you.
Mark O'Neal
#57. People sometimes forget how to be happy due to a failure to grasp the simple truth that other people are as real as you. And only in a story could you enter these different minds and show how they had an equal footing. That was the only moral a story must have.
Ian McEwan
#58. Sometimes opinions should kept to ones self, but not in appropriate situations. Be the judge of the appropriate situation, and be prepared for backfire. Moral of the story; if everyone doesn't agree, then prepare for them to lash out in disagreement.
Liam McGrath
#59. This is how it works now with the news: the story begins with a moral, then a narrative is fashioned to support it.
Walter Kirn
#60. The only thing more powerful than words
- is the Author who chooses them.
K.A. Gunn
#61. Because people aren't always as they seem and the moral of the story is the apple isn't always sweet.
Jasmine Sandozz
#62. I've tried to live my life right, just like a story.
Angela Sidney
#63. Every story has a moral you just need to be clever enough to find it
- the Dutchess
Lewis Carroll
#64. This story has no moral. If it points out an evil at any rate it suggests no remedy.
Saki
#65. The moral of this story is not everything that's slick is non-stick, and not everything non-stick is slick.
Alton Brown
#66. Many people think of the Bible as a book of moral teachings with stories sprinkled through to illustrate the teachings. But it's a lot BETTER THAN THAT ... the Bible is a single true story with teachings sprinkled through to illustrate the story.
Timothy Keller
#67. And now dear little children, who may this story read,
To idle, silly flattering words, I pray you ne'er give heed:
Unto an evil counsellor, close heart and ear and eye,
And take a lesson from this tale, of the Spider and the Fly.
Mary Howitt
#68. In the only love story he ever attempted, "Kiss Me Again," he had written, "There is no way a beautiful woman can live up to what she looks like for any appreciable length of time." The moral at the end of that story is this: "Men are jerks. Women are psychotic.
Kurt Vonnegut
#69. And the moral of this story is?" asked Amber, and immediately regretted it because it didn't sound tough and bored at all, just snotty. "That everything looks small on paper," Meoraq replied. "But in Gann's world, shit happens." The
R. Lee Smith
#70. To be sure, the story of Hurricane Katrina does have a moral for anyone not deliberately blind. The races are different. Blacks and whites are different. When blacks are left entirely to their own devices, Western Civilization-any kind of civilization-disappears.
Jared Taylor
#71. Is that the moral of it all, he thought? the moral of the whole story: that there is time enough for everything? Is that how morals come, unbidden, in the course of events, when you least expect them?
J.M. Coetzee
#72. So the moral of the story
is that God hates vegetarians.
Cory O'Brien
#73. Well, the moral of the story, The moral of this song, Is simply that one should never be Where one does not belong. So when you see your neighbor carryin' somethin', Help him with his load, And don't go mistaking Paradise For that home across the road.
Bob Dylan
#74. Our best moral stories don't tell us what is right or wrong in every situation, but they show us what one character did in one situation at one time. Readers, viewers, and listeners are supposed to extrapolate the moral meaning from the story. We're not supposed to have it handed to us.
Jonathan D. Fitzgerald
#75. The moral of this story is that sometimes, you can attempt to make all the difference in the world, and it still is like trying to stem the tide with a sieve. The moral of this story is that no matter how much we try, no matter how much we want it ... some stories just don't have a happy ending.
Jodi Picoult
#76. The giving of the Torah is a story of God seeking to provide humanity with the opportunity to make moral decisions.
Meir Soloveichik
#77. The moral of the story is even though that seemed like the end of the world back then, right now I can look back on it and laugh. And if anyone is going through something similar right now just know it will get better.
Phil Lester
#78. Tears are like lies. The more you use them, the less they're worth. The moral of the story is: STOP FUCKING CRYING.
The Betches
#79. So, the moral of that story, other than never underestimate an independent bookseller, was that the Continental Army and its commander in chief had a soft spot for Chief Artillery Officer Henry Knox.
Sarah Vowell
#80. The moral of the story is not to listen to those who tell you not to play the violin but stick to the tambourine.
Jose Mourinho
#81. Only that type of story deserves to be called moral that shows us that one has the power within oneself to act, out of the conviction that there is something better, even against one's own inclination.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#82. The only moral it is possible to draw from this story is that one should never throw the Q letter into a privet bush, but unfortunately there are times when it is unavoidable.
Douglas Adams
#83. The fact is, that I told him a story with a moral." "Ah! that is always a very dangerous thing to do,
Oscar Wilde
#84. By God's design, I believe our hearts and minds are shaped by Story. It's how we learn. It's how we make sense of the world. Characters, situations, moral consequences are all around us.
Liz Curtis Higgs
#85. A story communicates fear, hope, and anxiety, and because we can feel it, we get the moral not just as a concept, but as a teaching of our hearts. That's the power of story.
Marshall Ganz
#86. The moral of Pete's story is:
No matter what you step in,
keep walking along and
singing your song. Because it's all good." Pete the Cat I Love My White Shoes
Eric Litwin
#87. She is so totally absorbed in a vocation - both a gift and a mastering passion - that she has no time to be absorbed with the self's worries about itself. And that is the moral of the story: You can pursue happiness by wearing a torn jersey. You can catch it by being good at something you love.
George Will
#88. I still have that drawing. Whenever I look at it, it makes me happy. That's the moral of the story. That's it.
David Levithan
#89. As a writer, I have a moral deal with you, the reader - if I hook you with a story, my part of the deal is to follow through and give you a satisfying outcome.
Karen Traviss
#90. That is the moral of this story, kids. No matter how many people try to stomp on your happiness, you have the power to do whatever you want with your life.
Carlton Mellick III
#91. What's the moral of the story?
People Above will hurt you. People Above will break you, and devour your heart raw.
Leah Bobet
#92. Every moral has a story, every story has and end. Every battle has its glory, and its consequence.
Ben Harper
#93. The moral of the story is this: sometimes, to do nothing, to do nothing at all, is the sorriest thing ever.
Binnie Kirshenbaum
#94. You are missing a key element to the story. Maybe the moral of the legend is that we are all carved, created, and formed by a master hand. Maybe we are all works of art.
Amy Harmon
#95. I never fixed a story. I didn't make judgments, I let the listener make judgments. When I got to the end of the story, if it had a moral, I let the listener find it.
Tom T. Hall
#96. The moral of the story of the Pilgrims is that if you work hard all your life and behave yourself every minute and take no time out for fun you will break practically even, if you can borrow enough money to pay your taxes.
Will Cuppy
#97. The moral of the story couldn't be clearer: you already know if your partner is fucking around behind your back, you just need to decide if you're done being a doormat. You need to wake up one morning and decide that those rose-colored glasses are so last fucking season.
Brandi Glanville
#98. I'm not sure what the moral is here ... I really just wanted to tell that story.
Tim Gunn
#99. The reason I met my husband was because I remembered a friend's birthday. The moral of the story is: Remember people's birthdays.
Julianna Margulies
#100. The story ended with a moral: Large Enterprises Depend Upon Small Details. Jeremy couldn't see why it couldn't have just as well been: It's Wrong To Trap Nonexistent Women in Clocks, or: It Would Have Worked With A Glass Spring.
Terry Pratchett
