(167 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
“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.”
William Shakespeare
“Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man”
“Life is a tale told by an idiot -- full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.”
“Of all the tall tales, I think my favorite is the one about Eli Whitney and the interchangeable parts.”
Jack Handy
“If you see the magic in a fairy tale, you can face the future.”
Danielle Steel
“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.”
“Never trust the teller, trust the tale.”
D.H. Lawrence
