Quotes About Fables

Everywhere I am hindered of meeting God in my brother, because he has shut his own temple doors and recites fables merely of his brother's, or his brother's brother's God.

It is quite easy for stupid people to be happy; they believe in fables, and they trot on in a beaten track like a horse on a tramway.

History is fables agreed upon.

All the ancient histories, as one of our wits say, are just fables that have been agreed upon

Hubo así dos historias: una, de índole criminal, hecha de cárceles, torturas, prostituciones, robos, muertes e incendios; otra, de carácter escénico, hecha de necedades y fábulas para consumo de patanes".

For all that I loved the old tales of magic, I did not actually want there to be talking animals and mysterious requests on storm-tossed nights. Such things were for stories and ought to remain there.

A modern Greek, who could write the life of a saint without adding fables and miracles, is entitled to some commendation.

When you write it's like braiding your hair. Taking a handful of coarse unruly strands and attempting to bring them unity. Your fingers have still not perfected the task. Some of the braids are long, others are short. Some are thick, others are thin. Some are heavy. Others are light. Like the diverse women in your family. Those whose fables and metaphors, whose similes, and soliloquies, whose diction and je ne sais quoin daily slip into your survival soup, by way of their fingers

If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales.

Somos contos contando contos. Nada.

Myths are simply stories about truths we've forgotten.

Myths are simply stories about truths we've forgotten.

The Sun is bad enough even while he is single, drying up our marshes with his heat as he does. But what will become of us if he marries and and begets other suns?

Science has always been in conflict with narratives. Judged by the yardstick of science, the majority of them prove to be fables. But to the extent that science does not restrict itself to stating useful regularities and seeks truth, it is obliged to legitimate the rules of its own game.

It's what we do with the myths we grow up with that matters.

Many forgotten things live still in children's tales.

Lorsque tu verras une bonne D'enfants, et non autre personne, Assise au milieu d'un tender Ou wagon de chemin de fer, Découvres-toi sur son passage, Salut à son noble visage ! Moralité A bonne en tender, salut. " (Fables de Joinville)

We do not just fear our predators, we are transfixed by them. We are prone to weave stories and fables and chat endlessly about them.

The movies I make, I never see them as accurately portraying a life, but more like fables.

I'm fascinated with the stories that we tell. Real histories become fantasies and fairy tales, morality tales and fables. There's something interesting and funny and perverse about the way fairytale sometimes passes for history, for truth.

I love fairy tales because I think that behind fairy tales, there is always a meaning.

What works about fairy tales is that they endure, and the great thing about fairy tales is that you can explore big, epic things that you can't really explore in other situations.

I loved fairy tales growing up.

I love fairy tales.