Quotes About Fables

Giraffes are fairytale animals, almost heraldic - as if from the land of fables. They have extremely beautiful faces, huge eyes, very sensitive nostrils and oh, blue tongues!

'Thou shalt not' might reach the head, but it takes 'Once upon a time' to reach the heart.

Myths are the stories we tell ourselves about how we behave, when we don't know how it is we behave or even why.

Ä°nsanlar olmayacak masallar anlat?p çocuklar?n her ÅŸeye inanaca??n? zannediyorlar.

One writes fables in periods of oppression.

If you read the fables, 'Beowulf,' for example, you will know something about the person who writes them, and I like that. Secondly, they will not be about individuals; they will be about community. Thirdly, they're all about moralizing. Fourthly, the way they express themselves takes its tone from the oral tradition.

I directed a piece of theater in Italy. We took nine fables from the town and we created a play.

As a reader of fables, she must have recognized that I would need one of my own. . . . she knew a city would be the cure to the small life I had lived, the one I'd lost.

think I none so simple would say that Aesop lied in the tales of his beasts: for who thinks that Aesop writ it for actually true were well worthy to have his name chronicled among the beasts he writeth of.

We are full of dreams [...] We long for the unattainable. We believe in the nonsense of fables. There is no pure love; there is lust and there is need.

I'm not a fan of Dr. Seuss's better-known work, but his fables leave me awe-struck. 'Ten Tall Tales' is a collection of stories where his trademark anarchy is combined with a tautness of writing that shines an affectionate yet uncompromising spotlight on some of the absurdities of human behaviour.

Fables should be taught as fables, myths as myths, and miracles as poetic fantasies. To teach superstitions as truths is a most terrible thing. The child mind accepts and believes them, and only through great pain and perhaps tragedy can he be in after years relieved of them.

After all, I believe that legends and myths are largely made of 'truth'.

Myths are fun, as long as you don't confuse them with the truth.

Unbind the charms that in slight fables lie and teach that truth is truest poesy.

There are truths, and there are legends touched with truth, and all can teach you something.

Lies, fables and romances must needs be probable, but not the truth and foundation of our faith.

Sure, I love fairy tales.

I love fairy tales and feel very affected by them.

No thanks. This is a lovely dream, but it's a child's dream. I know some who'd argue the point, but I grew up long ago. - Rose Red (Fables: Vol.21, Happily Ever After)

Lascelles threw himself into the carriage, snorting with laughter and saying that he had never in his life heard of anything so ridiculous and comparing their snug drive through the London streets in Mr. Norrell's carriage to ancient French and Italian fables where fools set sail in milk-pails to fetch the moon's reflection from the bottom of a duckpond...

The party, having run out of fables, or the wish to deal in them, drifted apart apart with moist-eyed regrets.

I had rather believe all the fables in the legends and the Talmud and the Alcoran, than that this universal frame is without a mind.

History is fables agreed upon.