Tales Quotes

If you want to make your children brilliant, tell them fairy tales. If you want to make them more brilliant, tell them more fairy tales.

It's the problem with fairy tales. From far away, they seem so perfect. But up close, they're just as complicated as real life.

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!

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

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

Conservatives used to believe in confronting hard truths, not succumbing to comforting fairy tales. Some still do.

I always thought storytelling was like juggling [...] You keep a lot of different tales in the air, and juggle them up and down, and if you're good you don't drop any.

Darwinism is dynamic. It is about change, not stasis; about process, not pattern; about tales, not tableaux; about becoming, not being.

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

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.

Fairy tales have a hidden power, and their appeal never ends. They're the best way to get messages across.

Idle man, chases after fairy tales.

The laundry has its hands on my dirty shirts, sheets, towels and tablecloths, and who knows what tales they tell.

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

No society that feeds its children on tales of successful violence can expect them not to believe that violence in the end is rewarded.

From sentence to sentence, in fairy tales there is no reality that is subordinated to any other. Just as, outside the pages there is no reality.

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

Fairy tales have always got to have something a bit scary for children - as long as you make them laugh as well.

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

Sure, I love fairy tales.

With thee all tales are sweet; each clime has charms; earth - sea alike - our world within our arms.

If your best friend's feeling tearful, Try not to be too cheerful. Just let her fill your ear full Of sad tales by the score. And when she is through, She'll feel as good as.

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

In winter's tedious nights sit by the fire With good old folks, and let them tell thee tales Of woeful ages, long ago betid

I love cats. I have a lot of cat tales, ha ha, so to speak. A lot of my cats come to me. They show up at my house. I'm kind of a cat lady that way.

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

How convinced are you that man was created in the image of God when you can't see the image of God?

This is a wonderful joke to play upon a prisoner, to promise forgiveness.

You can do more with a castle in a story than with the best cardboard castle that ever stood on a nursery table.

Sometimes you must shed your skin to save it.

Once upon a time – for that is how all stories should begin – there was a boy who lost his mother.

I left the fairy tales lying on the floor of the nursery, and I have not found any books so sensible since.

Once I learned, I went online and ordered every romance novel I could find. They're fairy tales for grown-ups.

My feelings for Raphael are mine, and mine alone. I loved him, and that is all anyone needs to know. The rest is no business of any man's.

And in what fairy tale would John ever be any sane person's idea of Prince Charming anyway? He was the opposite of charming. More like Prince Terrifying.

But most dragons seem to have interesting personalities--besides probably having quite good reasons for what they do, if only one could understand them

Imagine having a mother who worries that you read too much. The question is, what is it that's supposed to happen to people who read too much? How can you tell when someone's crossed the line.

Think what you would have been now, if instead of being fed with tales and old wives' fables in childhood, you had been crammed with geography and natural history!

Music is not my life. My life is music.

Since there are thousands of fairy tales, one may safely guess that there are probably equal numbers where the courage and determination of females rescue males, and vice versa.

The tale is often wiser than the teller.

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

For some reason, I write about crash-landed spaceships quite a lot and my wife is sick of hearing of hearing my ideas for new tales about them.

When thou dost tell another's jest, therein Omit the oaths, which true wit cannot need; Pick out of tales the mirth, but not the sin.

I read a lot of 'The Canterbury Tales' on my phone last year, because I was cycling between three different editions, and I needed to have a middle-of-the-night edition for the insomniac reading.

I grew up with a lot of fairy tales. And they had an essence of darkness to them.

I mentioned before, these [classic Disney films] are classic mythological tales, a hero's journey, and have been told for thousands of years. Disney has updated them, and made them accessible for us.

People gave names to things so they could tell stories about them, goddam fairy tales about children who got out alive.

We no longer believe in fairy tales. But we will learn to believe in monsters

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