(147 quotes found)
“Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.”
C.S. Lewis
““But that’s not the way of it with the tales that really mattered, or the ones that stay in the mind. Folk seem to have just landed in them, usually - their paths were laid that way, as you put it. But I expect they had lots of chances, like us, of turning back, only they didn’t. And if they had, we shouldn’t know, because they’d have been forgotten. We hear about those as just went on - and not all to a good end, mind you; at least not to what folk inside a story and not outside it call a good end””
J.R.R. Tolkien
“Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man”
William Shakespeare
“Ay me! for aught that ever I could read, could ever hear by tale or history, the course of true love never did run smooth.”
“If you see the magic in a fairy tale, you can face the future.”
Danielle Steel
“I could a tale unfold whose lightest wordWould harrow up thy soul, freeze thy young blood,Make thy two eyes, like stars, start from their spheres.”
“Of all the tall tales, I think my favorite is the one about Eli Whitney and the interchangeable parts.”
Jack Handy
“Life is a tale told by an idiot -- full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.”
“I do not know if you remember the tale of the girl who saves the ship under mutiny by sitting on the powder barrel with her lighted torch and all the time knowing that it is empty? This has seemed to me a charming image of the women of my time. There they were, keeping the world in order by sitting on the mystery of life, and knowing themselves that there was no mystery.”
Isak Dinesen
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