Quotes About Legend

This blend of truth and evasion was to characterise future legend. Todd did encounter words like blades but, as mouthpiece for the family, never mentions this, any more than Jane Austen's family saw fit to mention her sarcasms. Nineteenth-century families project an image of an authoress as retiring lady whose gift shades into an uneventful life. Nothing could be said of sickness, love, adultery or the rising fire of the feud.

One of many legends of the Impaler is that, trapped in a loveless marriage, he wandered the streets of his capital, Tirgoviste, picking up prostitutes on the way. So, too, Carol II Hohenzollern, king of Romania when archaeologists first came looking for Dracula's grave had his string of mistresses.

What's a Sinbad?

Sehwag shall be remembered for his explosive and natural cricketing skills. Wish him all success on his birthday.

any legend is not worth making up if it does not include a murder or two.

Men recognised her always: the same effulgent face, the same rust voice. And she and I, we recognised each other; I her face and she my legend.

the legends of friendship and love between man and man, woman and woman, or man and woman, lies this hideous narcissistic image of the single, all-sufficient self, the primitive generative force which fecundates itself, which in its irrepressible ebullience threw off a planetary system that forms the whole corpus of mythological worship and love. "In the beginning was the word and the word became flesh.

It is one of the prime errors of historical and rational analysis to suppose that the "truth" and "original form" of a legend can be separated from its miraculous elements. It is in the marvels themselves that the truth inheres.

half man and half marble.

For as long as there are poets, playwrights and men with hearts to break, tales will be told of the princess who died across the water and returned home to be crowned a queen, the queen of all our hearts.

Who are you, O noble one?' asked Gaam, 'My friend the centauress has walked these lands many times, but she has never seen one as mighty as you.' 'Then heed my words, dwarf,'--the Kol-dwellers all flinched and looked at Gaam, but he was unmoved--'and tell thy woman-horse I am Sir Cyr, Guardian of the Bridge.' 'Sir what?' asked Gaam. 'Sir Cyr.' 'Never mind. (...)

AMPHISBÆNA  (AMPHISBÆ'NA)   n.s.[Lat.    serpent supposed to have two heads. That the amphisbæna, that is, a smaller kind of serpent, which moveth forward and backward, hath two heads, or one at either extreme, was affirmed by Nicander, and others.Brown'sVulgar Errours,b. iii.

It is no surprise that the only woman in antiquity who could be the subject of a full-length biography is Cleopatra. Yet, unlike Alexander, whom she rivals as the theme of romance and legend, Cleopatra is known to us through overwhelmingly hostile sources. The reward of the 'good' woman in Rome was likely to be praise in stereotyped phrases; in Athens she won oblivion.

They say the bottles lined up along her shelves contain aphrodisiacs, poisons and perfumes, but that only she knows which ones are safe and which lethal, for they carry no labels, and that when she starts to prepare death for someone, the man or woman for whom it is intended feels a terrible shiver run through them, as if they have already been touched by the clammy cold of the grave. Or so they say. They say a great many things about Caterina Sforza. But though there is

it's not called the Rusty Ruins because some guy called Rusty found them.

Conference of the Birds inspired some of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales and gave the Swiss the legend of William Tell. Chaucer had been dead for almost a hundred years when the Spanish reconquest of Granada in 1492

and so, I went to work on a brazen head that was going to tell me how to encircle England with a wall of brass, to keep out marauding Danes and other riffraff.

Like most adventures, it was best experienced in the telling, rather than the execution.

Lenda é uma coisa, realidade é outra. Aquela, nós contamos; esta escondemos. Criamos monstros na esperança de que as lições contidas nas histórias nos sirvam de guia quando nos deparamos com o que há de mais terrível na vida. Inventamos nomes para nossos medos e rezamos para não encontrar nada pior do que aquilo que nós mesmos criamos.

High on the hilltop The old King sits; He is now so old and gray He's nigh lost his wits. —Allingham, The Fairies

There was an old woman Who lived under the hill And if she's not gone She lives there still.

Your memories become fantasies if they are not shared, and your life in all its triviality becomes a legend.

May my legend prosper and thrive. I wish it a long and happy life.

History: gossip well told.