Quotes About Tale

Then he told them another story and it was this story.

Never trust the teller, trust the tale. The proper function of a critic is to save the tale from the artist who created it.

The artist usually sets out -- or used to -- to point a moral and adorn a tale. The tale, however, points the other way, as a rule. Two blankly opposing morals, the artist's and the tale's. Never trust the artist. Trust the tale. The proper functions of a critic is to save the tale from the artist who created it.

The proper function of the critic is to save the tale from the artist who created it.

The proper function of a critic is to save the tale from the artist who created it.

if part of an integrated system. His tale is thus both instructive and cautionary, filled with lessons about innovation, character, leadership, and values. Shakespeare's Henry V—the story of a willful and immature prince

According to a tale recorded by James McHenry of Maryland, he made his point in a pithier way to an anxious lady named Mrs. Powel, who accosted him outside the hall. What type of government, she asked, have you delegates given us? To which he replied, "A republic, madam, if you can keep it.

Nothing is too long or too short either if you have a true and interesting tale and what I call a "graphic" writing style combined with educational aims.

Who can take the measure of a child? The Genie of the Arabian tale is nothing to him. He, too, may be let out of his bottle and fill the world. But woe to us if we keep him corked up.

He who always prefaces his tale with laughter, is poised between impertinence and folly.

The hero of my tale, whom I love with all the power of my soul, whom I have tried to portray in all his beauty, who has been, is, and will be beautiful, is Truth.

Myth is not about facts

This is the most amazing event in the whole sorry tale: that finally people who sincerely wanted to strengthen great cities should adopt recipes frankly devised for undermining their economies and killing them.

That's the damnedest story I think I've ever heard. It's so unbelievable, I actually believe it.

And now may the blessing of God rest upon all men. I have told unto them the Epic of Kings, and the Epic of Kings is come to a close, and the tale of their deeds is ended.

A good urban legend is something that actually did happen but it got twisted in the telling over time.

It's the story that counts.

It's nice to know when you're a part of a story, it's nice to know at least something about the beginning, middle, and end.

The nature of storytelling, since the dawn of man, has a beginning, a middle, and an end.

Then you are quite behind the age," said the Water-rat.  "Every good story-teller nowadays starts with the end, and then goes on to the beginning, and concludes with the middle. 

I don't know if you have had the same experience, but the snag I always come up against when I'm telling a story is this dashed difficult problem of where to begin it.

It was late morning when Kassad finished his story.

Now he asked, his voice as careful and unslurred as only a true alcoholic's can be, whose turn it was to tell a tale.

What he had to tell them was a story