Quotes About Tale

There was no need to wound him further, to shift from him the limelight of his own tale, which Lestat being the bright star, must always have.

Aldred the weasel took up the tale.

Not that Alexandre Dumas, Fils, excels generally in morals (in his books, I mean), but he is really a promising writer as to cleverness, and when he has learnt a little more art he will take no low rank as a novelist. Robert has just been reading a tale of his called 'Diane de Lys,' and throws it down with— 'You must read that, Ba — it is clever — only outrageous as to the morals.' Just what I should expect from Alexandre Dumas, Fils.

Well, Haimey Dz, you always wanted to make a legend for yourself. Here's your chance at becoming a really spectacular example of a cautionary tale!

There was a girl. There's always a girl, they say, and in this case it was true.

Every great legend is at its heart a tale of innocence lost, and perhaps that was the role I was destined to play.

I know the difference between the confection of live as sung in a minstrel's tale and the sustaining bread of love in reality, he defended himself. Both are to be savoured in their own way.

Here is ended the Prioress's Tale.

Nay, Sir, not of love," said he, "but a tale shall I relate as best I can, with hearty good will. I shall not disobey your request. Excuse me if I speak amiss. My intention is good. And, lo, my tale is this.

But you worshipful religious Canons, do not deem that I slander your order, although my tale may be of a Canon. In every order there is some miscreant, pardon me, and God forbid that all a company should rue a single man's folly.

There are fantastic stories yet to be told featuring Marvel's characters, old and new, and I'm thrilled to be part of them.

Your one life is a great tale, one facet of God's continuing narrative within the world.

And so the first part of my tale is told, and with it a candle goes out.

He left the name at which the world grew pale,To point a moral, or adorn a tale.

Since then, at an uncertain hour, That agony returns: And till my ghastly tale is told, This heart within me burns.

The thing about this city," Andray said. "It knows how to tell a beautiful story. It truly does. But if you're looking for a happy ending, you better be lookin' somewhere else.

I had the story, bit by bit, from various people, and, as generally happens in such cases, each time it was a different story.

Once upon a time there was a Once upon a time there was a Once upon a time there was a Stop this. It's undignified.

Try to make the time frame the minimum the story will permit.

The words of explanation Edward long to say grew tangled in smoky perfume and wet tendrils of long fair hair, conflicting thoughts of assassins and magic, insane monks and false nuns and holy quests and somewhere, long ago, the tale of a wild witch of the wood with whom, if a man fell in love, he was lost forever....

Maybe it was a consequence of reaching the end of the end, finding out the dark, mad, gleaming tale had concluded the only way it could in the real world--with mortal people doing mortal things, a father and daughter, facing their deaths.

Whether this tale be true or false, none can tell, for none were there to witness it themselves.

He, as he told his tale, did not look her in the face, but sat with his eyes fixed upon her muff.

fortuitous for me. This sort of tale serves, in many ways, the very same purpose as fairy tales did in our childhood: It operates as a theater of the mind in which internal conflicts are played out. In these tales we can parade the most reprehensible aspects of our being: cannibalism, incest, parricide. It allows us to discuss our anxieties and even to contemplate the experience of death in absolute safety.