Quotes About Tale

And if to some my tale seems foolishness I am content that such could count me fool.

What woe is lacking to my tale of woes?

Everything in life is arbitrary yet must be over-determined in literature. Jean McGarry knows how to tell a persuasive tale illuminating these truths.

Or call up him that left half toldThe story of Cambuscan bold.

Once upon a time there was what there was, and if nothing had happened there would be nothing to tell.

Conventions, that all the champions of our sex feel the same way. Well, since I must come to an end somewhere, let it be here. To quote Lord Bacon again, take my "round, unvarnished tale," and perhaps the world will yet acknowledge that some good has been done by Yours truly,

Oh, by the way, while I was having a glass of your delicious gueuze beer, I spotted a crook…

What happened to-day, a narrative

It's a beautiful tale, and today is a beautiful day without any bugs.

The joy in telling a story is in the magic of spinning the tale, not in the number of exaggerations you can create." "So you say. And who's to say I was exaggerating?" "I do." "That's because you're six-foot-plus and more brawn than--" "More brawn than what?" "Than a five-foot-tall woman of undisclosed weight." "Now there's another difference in how I'd tell the story. I'd use the word insufficient to describe your weight.

There is a compelling story within each person and every organization.

This act is an ancient tale new told; And, in the last repeating, troublesome, Being urged at a time unseasonable.

But that is another story and shall be told another time.

Now, then, that is the tale. Some of it is true.

Many a reader who wanted to read a tale through was not able to do it because of delays on account of the weather. Nothing breaks up an author's progress like having to stop every few pages to fuss-up the weather. Thus it is plain that persistent intrusions of weather are bad for both reader and author.

T[he rules of writing] require that the episodes in a tale shall be necessary parts of the tale, and shall help to develop it.

When death tells a story yo really have to listen

When Death has a story to tell; you listen.

Ich erinnerte mich, wie der Baronet mir erzählt hatte, dass

I've lived my life again just telling it to you.

Their story drew a heated response.

Suppose that which is taking place here and now is not reality, but only a tale, a tale of some higher order that contains within it the tale of the machine: a reader might well wonder why you and your companions are shaped like spheres, inasmuch as that sphericality serves no purpose in the narration and would appear to be a wholly superfluous embellishment...

It is the tale, not he who tells it.

The story of their fellowship ends here, on this make-believe street and beneath this artificial sun; the rest of the tale will be short and brutal compared to all that's gone before. Because when katet breaks, the end always comes quickly. Say sorry.