Top 100 Quotes About Tales
#1. Once upon a time the fairy tales begin. But then they end and often you don't know really what has happened, what was meant to happen, you only know what you've been told, what the words suggest.
Joyce Carol Oates
#2. Just remember," he said. "Maybe these guys are nice, and the ants are mean. But that doesn't mean their fairy tales are true.
Robert Repino
#4. I have a daughter, Hanna, and I never read fairy tales to her. But I did tell her bedtime tales and made up many tales involving 'Gory the Goblin' and other creatures that I borrowed from the Grimms' tales and other tales I knew.
Jack Zipes
#5. No, In fairy tales When to the ill-starred Prince the lady says 'I love you!' all his ugliness fades fast But I remain the same, up to the last!
Edmond Rostand
#6. Criticism and rejection are not personal insults, but your artistic component will not know that. It will quiver and wince and run to cover, and you will have trouble in luring it out again to observe and weave tales and find words for all the thousand shades of feeling that go to make up a story.
Dorothea Brande
#7. There have been a number of us working very, very hard to bring myth and fairy tales into public consciousness, through fantasy literature and other media. I hope we're succeeding in some small way.
Terri Windling
#8. My fans are crazy, but in a good way. Very supportive, and some tweet me more like a 100 times a day. As for tour tales, I have a saying: 'What happens on tour stays on tour.'
Tiesto
#9. All good writing is persuasive writing; persuading the reader to buy what you're selling, to side with you, to believe the tales you tell.
Ramsey Isler
#10. Ah, now, don't cry over lost years and forgetfulness. The tales tell what they can. The rest is for us to learn..
Shannon Hale
#11. You never know what you're gonna find under those covers - Grandma or the wolf." Little Red, excerpt from Tales From the Hood
Betsy Schow
#12. If you look at children's stories in fairy tales, they're pretty brutal.
Susanne Bier
#13. As for you and your heart and the things you said and didn't say, she will remember them all when men are fairy tales in books written by rabbits.
Peter S. Beagle
#14. The reason why time plays a great part in so many of my tales is that this element looms up in my mind as the most profoundly dramatic and grimly terrible thing in the universe.
H.P. Lovecraft
#15. American cinema is international like the fairy tales were international.
Bertrand Tavernier
#16. Is there anything more tedious than the often repeated tales of the old and forgetful?
Charles Caleb Colton
#17. I don't feel any shame I won't apologize if there ain't nowhere you can go running away from pain when you've been victimized tales from another broken home.
Green Day
#18. Before the real city could be seen it had to be imagined, the way rumours and tall tales were a kind of charting.
Michael Ondaatje
#19. And fairy tales are make-believe. They are the stories we tell to small children to make them believe the world is a far better place than it really is.
J.L. Vallance
#22. All day Marie-Laure lies on her stomach and reads. Logic, reason, pure science: these, Aronnax insists, are the proper ways to pursue a mystery. Not fables and fairy tales.
Anthony Doerr
#23. 'Robopocalypse' joins a proud tradition of techno-apocalyptic tales, stretching from high-flying Icarus, to Frankenstein's monster, and to many a giant radioactive creature who has crashed the streets of Tokyo. And then, of course, there's the Terminator.
Daniel H. Wilson
#24. I don't know what to think about magic and fairy tales.
Richard Dawkins
#25. A man should be careful never to tell tales of himself to his own disadvantage. People may be amused at the time, but they will be remembered, and brought out against him upon some subsequent occasion.
Samuel Johnson
#26. They talked about fishing, food, winds and stonework; about growing tomatoes, keeping poultry and roasting lamb, catching crayfish and scallops; telling tales, jokes; the meaning of their stories nothing, the drift of them everything; the brittle and beautiful dream itself.
Richard Flanagan
#27. And the wind will whip your tousled hair, The sun, the rain, the sweet despair, Great tales of love and strife. And somewhere on your path to glory You will write your story of a life.
Harry Chapin
#28. It's just that you go so crazy being alone like that. Sometimes he'd forget my water or food and I'd cry and cry and cry." She stops talking and looks out the window. "I would try to tell myself stories to pass the time. Fairy tales. Parts of books. But they got used up.
Holly Black
#29. When I see throughout this book, called the Bible, a history of the grossest vices and a collection of the most paltry and contemptible tales and stories, I could not so dishonor my Creator by calling it by His name.
Thomas Paine
#30. The strong belief can make things out of imagination.
But that can also make facts as if they were fairy tales.
Toba Beta
#31. For the others, it was still just a tale, like all the tales we told, night by night, tales comical and strange, tales heroic and awe-inspiring, the tales that formed the fabric of our spirits.
Juliet Marillier
#32. Not all of E. Nesbit's children's books are fantasies, but even the most realistic somehow seem magical. In her holiday world, nobody ever goes to school, though all the kids know their English history, Greek myths, and classic tales of derring-do.
Michael Dirda
#33. This is the thing about fairy tales: You have to live through them, before you get to happily ever after. That ever after has to be earned, and not everyone makes it that far.
Kat Howard
#34. The first person to refer to Darwin's tales as Just So Stories was a Harvard paleontologist and evolutionist, Stephen Jay Gould, in 1978.61
Tom Wolfe
#35. I don't believe in fairy tales, but I believe in you and me
Natalia Kills
#36. Fairy tales have rules. You are a princess or you aren't. You are pure at heart or you aren't. If you are pure at heart, or lucky, you might catch a break.
Richard Siken
#37. When rumours fly, when false tales are being told, be the storyteller.
Bernard Cornwell
#38. Serena was very good at telling tales. She had always been convincing (that was the word her sister liked to use for lying).
Victoria Schwab
#39. Lloyd Alexander's tales were written and published when I was in diapers. Decades later, they remain utterly timeless for me. I cannot recommend them enough.
James A. Moore
#40. Heather Lende's small town is populated with big hearts
she finds them on the beach, walking her granddaughters, in the stories of ordinary peoples' lives, and knits them into unforgettable tales. Find the Good is a treasure.
Jo-Ann Mapson
#41. Fairy tales, because they have a very clear structure, are easier to interfere with. Also they have this really weird logic: the kind of logic that you only really experience when you're not feeling very well, or as a child.
Helen Oyeyemi
#42. In the fairy tales, the poor girl smiles when she becomes a princess. Right now, I don't know if I'll ever smile again.
Victoria Aveyard
#43. While dead men tell no tales, their corpses often speak volumes.
Douglas Preston
#44. I'm here because all fairy tales take place in the woods, King Cole, even those that don't.
Bill Willingham
#45. Mother didn't understand that children aren't frightened by stories; that their lives are full of far more frightening things than those contained in fairy tales.
Kate Morton
#46. How will history judge us? Will our tales be sources of inspiration, or wells of caution?
Yunus D. Saleh
#48. Miracles do not belong to fairy tales. Miracles belong to the desperate, because only the desperate believe in bullshit.
Amy Zhang
#49. Deeper meaning resides in the fairy tales told me in my childhood than any truth that is taught in life.
Friedrich Schiller
#50. Miss Hermione Jean Granger, I leave my copy of The Tales of Beedle the Bard, in the hope that she will find it entertaining and instructive.
J.K. Rowling
#51. No wonder princesses were so impotent in fairy tales, she thought. If all they could do was smile, stand straight, and speak to squirrels, then what choice did they have but to wait for a boy to rescue them? Princess
Soman Chainani
#52. The problem with fairy tales is that most of them begin with tragedy.
Kelly Oram
#53. I often forget that other people's stories aren't simply introductions to my own more engaging, more dramatic, more relevant, and better-told tales, but rather ends in themselves, tales I can learn from or repeat or dissect or savor.
Will Schwalbe
#54. You ever notice the rampant child neglect going on in faery tales" ~ Oberon
Kevin Hearne
#55. Fairy tales have always got to have something a bit scary for children - as long as you make them laugh as well.
Roald Dahl
#56. As you travel around Slovenia,
Think of the tales the hills could tell you.
Share the awe of natural wonder;
Tread the trails, but as you wander
Honor the age-old endeavors to be
Literate, informed, democratic and free.
Jacqueline Widmar Stewart
#58. Deception was an inherent trait of intelligent beings. Even his love, in her ample ardor, would weave him a guilty lie for his own good. And he treasured her just as well for those tales he was sure she'd already spun.
Darrell Drake
#59. Before you enter the forest, you must leave your mind outside, because in the land of fairy tales there is no need for it!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#60. Fairy tales are stories of triumph and transformation and true love, all things I fervently believe in.
Kate Forsyth
#61. Your tale is of the longest," observed Monks, moving restlessly in his chair.
It is a true tale of grief and trial, and sorrow, young man," returned Mr. Brownlow, "and such tales usually are; if it were one of unmixed joy and happiness, it would be very brief.
Charles Dickens
#62. Just about every science whiz can tell you how he or she took apart the TV or the radio when they were kids just to see how it worked. To see what the world was made of. Well, when I was a kid, I took apart fairy tales to see how they worked. To see what the world was made of.
Catherynne M Valente
#63. I published my first book in 1982 - a collection of Irish folklore called Irish Folk & Fairy Tales. It is still in print today. My first young adult book was published a couple of years later, and I've been writing in both genres ever since.
Michael Scott
#64. Because the great thing about fairy tales and folk tales is that there is no authentic text. It's not like the text of Paradise Lost or James Joyce's Ulysses, and you have to adhere to that exact text.
Philip Pullman
#66. There are indeed many wonders, and with regard to the stories people tell one another, it may be that such tales go beyond the true account and, embellished with iridescent lies, beguile them.
Pindar
#67. English poetic education should, really, not begin with The Canterbury Tales, not with the Odyssey, not even with Genesis, but with Song of Amergin.
Robert Graves
#68. Definitely they write themselves. It's an amazing experience. It's like the characters have come alive and are sitting on my shoulder talking to me, telling me their tales.
R.A. Salvatore
#69. In fairy tales," her mother used to say, "no one ever says I love you. They give food and they kiss. That's what love is made of.
Jacqueline Sweet
#70. The Snow White the midnight the moon tales of the mechanics
Marissa Meyer
#71. It was one of those hot, silent nights, when people sit at windows, listening for the thunder which they know will shortly break; when they recall dismal tales of hurricanes and earthquakes; and of lonely travelers on open plains, and lonely ships at sea, struck by lightning.
Charles Dickens
#72. I had a serious library at my disposal, because my Popo believed that culture entered by osmosis and it was better to start early, but my favorite books were fairy tales.
Isabel Allende
#73. Happy endings aren't just for fairy tales and massage parlors.
Susan Gloss
#74. For legends attract the very best in our times, just as ideologies attract the average, and the whispered tales of gruesome secret powers behind the scenes attract the very worst.
Hannah Arendt
#75. There are no interesting stories in these parts, just weary, never-ending tales of tragedy and woe. And toothlessness.
Mia Sheridan
#76. Fairy tales were important to me. Aren't they for any kid? My sister says I spent a good five years of my youth convinced I would grow up to be a princess.
Susannah Grant
#77. I've always loved tales of broken lovers who roam through countrysides singing their stories of woe and separation, their honey- sweet longing for the next life when they can suddenly be re united. It makes other people happy, you see. It makes people grateful that it hasn't happened to them.
Roshani Chokshi
#78. historically fairy tales were women's stories, passed orally in a time when women didn't have many rights.
Nora Roberts
#79. Fairy tales to me are never happy, sweet stories. They're moral stories about overcoming the dark side and the bad.
Joe Wright
#80. Tents are boasters, telling exaggerated tales of the weather they save you from.
Mark Lawrence
#81. We Americans are too often like children, steeped in moral tales that lack complexity and nuanced meaning.
(from the foreword in The War I survived Was Vietnam by Michael Uhl)
Steve Rees
#82. Fairy tales and folk tales are for children and childlike people, not because they are little and inconsequential, but because they are as enormous as life itself.
Anthony Esolen
#83. For a once renowned woman who loved telling tales of dodging bullets, wielding grenades and subverting dogs trained to kill, Christine's story is, surprisingly, little known today.
Clare Mulley
#84. Life is a big story. Music is just one way to tell it, to realize how many tales all kinds of people share.
Stasia Ward Kehoe
#85. The old tales of China tell us that all things may grow and change. A stone may become a plant. A plant may become an animal. An animal may become a human. A human may become a god.
Just so, a snake may become a woman. And we are told of one who did.
Aaron Shepard
#86. People have been modeling their lives after films for years, but the medium is somehow unsuited to moral lessons, cautionary tales or polemics of any kind.
Renata Adler
#87. Weigh oath with oath, and you will nothing weigh,
Your vows to her and me, put in two scales,
Will even weigh, and both as light as tales.
William Shakespeare
#88. My father loved biographies. He loved the true tales of interesting people that were shaping our culture. I get why he dug 'Vanity Fair.' You feel smarter, somehow, for reading it.
Abigail Spencer
#89. Although Branwen had no patience for dry lists of names and dates, she had always loved the thrilling tales of the old wars that were told and retold around the hearth in the Great Hall of Garth Milain.
Allan Frewin Jones
#90. I have never dreamed of being a princess. I have not longed for Prince Charming. I have and do long for something resembling a happily ever after. I am supposed to be above such flights of fantasy, but I am not. I am enamored of fairy tales.
Roxane Gay
#91. Jesus wastes none of our stories, even our tales of woe. He transforms them into epic adventures where we dare to face our past for the sake of our present.
Mary E. DeMuth
#92. When I used to read fairy-tales, I fancied that kind of thing never happened, and now here I am in the middle of one!
Lewis Carroll
#93. I have come to the conclusion that a goodly number of the fables that pass under the name of the Samian slave, Aesop, were derived from India, probably from the same source whence the same tales were utilised in the Jatakas, or Birth-stories of Buddha.
Joseph Jacobs
#94. I sighed. 'Ah spite, the stuff of fairy tales.
Molly Harper
#95. Farewell, farewell," said the swallow, with a heavy heart, as he left the warm countries, to fly back into Denmark. There he had a nest over the window of a house in which dwelt the writer of fairy tales. The swallow sang "Tweet, tweet," and from his song came the whole story.
Hans Christian Andersen
#96. The whole world had changed. Only the fairy tales remained the same. And they lived happily ever after,
Lois Lowry
#97. We poor tellers of tales have our moments too, it seems. Like great generals sitting upon horses upon the tops of hills and throwing troops into the arena, we throw the little soldier words into our battles.
Sherwood Anderson
#98. One of my ambitions has been to go back to what those great authors were doing then ... to bridge that sensibility of old Victorian Gothic tales and reconstruct them in a modern way.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
#99. Love spells are nothing but wives' tales. You can't play magic inside the heart, for it's more powerful than any spell. Lust you can order up with a wink, desire with a smile. But love is love, and there is nothing can touch it.
Nora Roberts
#100. Though the Grimms kept about 100 of the tales from the first edition, they changed them a good deal.
Jack Zipes
