(166 quotes found)
“Some leaves hang late, some fallbefore the first frost--so goesthe tale of winter branches and old bones.”
William Carlos Williams
“Do not ask questions of fairy tales”
Jewish Proverb
“There are accents in the eye which are not on the tongue, and more tales come from pale lips than can enter an ear. It is both the grandeur and the pain of the remoter moods that they avoid the pathway of sound.”
Thomas Hardy
“Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.”
C.S. Lewis
“Your tale sir, would cure deafness”
William Shakespeare
“My conscience hath a thousand several tongues, And every tongue brings in a several tale, And every tale condemns me for a villain”
“Years ago, fairy tales all began with Once upon a time... now we know they all begin with, If I am elected.”
Carolyn Warner
“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
“The shadow of a mighty Negro past flits through the tale of Ethiopia and of the Egypt the Sphinx. Throughout history, the powers of single blacks flash like falling stars, and die sometimes before the world has rightly gauged their brightness.”
W. E. B. Du Bois
“Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale.”
