Tales Quotes

When I used to read fairy-tales, I fancied that kind of thing never happened, and now here I am in the middle of one!

Of all tales 'tis the saddest--and more sad, Because it makes us smile.

The tricks of magic follow the archetypes of narrative fiction — there are tales of creation and loss, death and resurrection, and obstacles that must be overcome.

Remember all fairy tales end at some point.

But surely to tell these tall tales and others like them would be to spread the myth, the wicked lie, that the past is always tense and the future, perfect.

Change is the essence of life; change is the great challenge, the great constant. Change is the ultimate teller of tales.

I began to believe the fairy tales: You know, how we're all out there looking for our magical missing half.

In spite of all the dishonour, the broken standards, the broken lives, The broken faith in one place or another, There was something left that was more than the tales Of old men on winter evenings.

I don't know what to think about magic and fairy tales.

We cling to our fairy tales until the price for believing in them becomes too high.

I want to talk about political and economic fairy tales.

The more one knows fairy tales the less fantastical they appear; they can be vehicles of the grimmest realism, expressing hope against all the odds with gritted teeth.

The fairy tale always takes place in worlds that are between, unidentifiable.

Old wives' tales are not enough in a day when old wives and old men, too, are constantly moving away from their labours.

Well, Company of Wolves was about that literally, about fairy tales.

Delivers in such apt and gracious words that aged ears play truant at his tales; And younger hearings are quite ravished; So sweet and voluble is his discourse.

People populate the darkness; with ghosts, with gods, with electrons, with tales.

I don't believe in fairy tales, but I believe in you and me

What a poor appearance the tales of poets make when stripped of the colours which music puts upon them, and recited in simple prose.

Misses! the tale that I relate This lesson seems to carry-- Choose not alone a proper mate, But proper time to marry.

Gifts fall from heaven only in fairy tales.

Many a wretch has rid on a hurdle who has done less mischief than utterers of forged tales, coiners of scandal, and clippers of reputation.

There was a place in childhood that I remember well, And there a voice of sweetest tone bright fairy tales did tell.

Spring blossoms are fairy tales, autumn leaves are tragic dramas.

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.

In fairy tales the bad guy is very easy to spot. The bad guy is always wearing a black cape so you always know who he is.

Everyone would tell me they couldn't identify with sexual abuse. No one says they can't identify with the tales of the Greek gods and goddesses because they don't live on Mt. Olympus.

Tell me the tales that to me were so dear, Long, long ago, long, long ago.

They were written on cheap blue notebooks bought by poor women. I'm interested in folk tales in the way that medicine and magic in women's stories are all kind of combined.

When I was little, I made up my own fairy tales, and the ghostly echo of Once upon a time shapes all the fiction Ive ever written.

All my tales are based on the fundamental premise that common human laws and interests and emotions have no validity or significance in the vast cosmos-at-large.

The protagonist of folktale is always, and intensely, a young person moving through ordeals into adult life. . . . and this is why there are no wicked stepchildren in the tales.

If you wish for something hard enough, the fairy tales teach us, you can get it in the end. But it's hardly ever the way you thought it would be, and the endings aren't always happy ones.

I think people are interested in anything that's a little bigger than life and that's colorful and - you know, what they like? They like fairy tales for grownups.

People seem always actually to know, with a degree of pain that has required the comfort of fairy tales, that when you are dressed in any particular way at all, you are revealed rather than hidden.

I never grew up reading or fantasizing about fairy tales. I was always too busy, like, outside being a kid.

Fairy tales have rules. You are a princess or you aren’t. You are pure at heart or you aren’t. If you are pure at heart, or lucky, you might catch a break.

Years ago, fairy tales all began with Once upon a time... now we know they all begin with, If I am elected.

[Fairy tales] make rivers run with wine only to make us remember, for one wild moment, that they run with water.

Books are the building blocks of civilization and a people without books are a people without history, a people with no story older than the tales of the oldest man or woman.

You and I who still enjoy fairy tales have less reason to wish actual childhood back. We have kept its pleasures and added some grown-up ones as well.

Content, it dreams awake, and spins the fabric of tales. There is really nothing to be done with such imagery except to use it: in writing, in art.

Never tell tales about a woman. No matter how far away she is, shell always hear you.

We believed the fairy tales we told our children and we loved them beyond reason even when we were green and bungling about it. We were children loving our children. And that's who we are still.

Fairy tales and folk tales have always played a role in my writing in one way or another.

So we'll live, And pray, and sing, and tell old tales, and laugh at gilded butterflies.

Truly songs and tales fall utterly short of the reality, O Smaug the Chiefest and greatest of Calamities.

The whole world had changed. Only the fairy tales remained the same. "And they lived happily ever after.

There are no events but thoughts and the heart's hard turning, the heart's slow learning where to love and whom. The rest is merely gossip, and tales for other times.

In fairy tales, the children are saved by caring adults. We need more caring adults in the lives of our children.