(166 quotes found)
“Sainthood emerges when you can listen to someone's tale of woe and not respond with a description of your own.”
Andrew V. Mason
“Very old are we men; / Our dreams are tales / Told in dim Eden / By Eve's nightingales.”
Walter de La Mare
“There are few joys to compare with the telling of a well-told tale.”
Charles de Lint
“Why can't love be a fairy tale?”
Amy Davis
“Choosing forms of worship form poetic tales.”
William Blake
“When fairy tales are written in the west, they're known as folklore. In the east, fairy tales are called religions.”
Paul Henderson
“I was a great reader of fairy tales. I tried to read the entire fairy tale section of the library: Andrew Lang's Blue Fairy Book, Red Fairy Book, and so on, probably down to the Puce or Chartreuse fairy tales.”
Beverly Cleary
“For seldom shall she hear a taleSo sad, so tender, and so true.”
William Shenstone
“Never trust the meaning of fairy tales.”
Losungen
“The Tell Tale Poe”
Edgar Allan Poe
