Quotes About Fable

My favourite Ghibli film is maybe lesser known: the 'Tale of Princess Kaguya.' It's a different visual style, by a different director to most of the films, but it's really beautiful, and an old Japanese fable brought to life in an almost moving-watercolour kind of way.

The notion of art as a compromise is a simplification, for no one knows entirely what he is doing. A writer can conceive a fable, Kipling acknowledged, without grasping its moral. He must be true to his imagination, and not to the mere ephemeral circumstances of a supposed 'reality'.

nuestro siglo XX había transformado la fábula de Mahoma y de la montaña; las montañas, ahora, convergían sobre el moderno Mahoma.

If you're going to have a story, have a big story, or none at all.

If you are going to have a story, have a big story, or none at all.

Legends are always better from afar.

The old tales of China tell us that all things may grow and change. A stone may become a plant. A plant may become an animal. An animal may become a human. A human may become a god. Just so, a snake may become a woman. And we are told of one who did.

such memories are woven from gossamer threads; time eats holes in the fabric, and these she must darn with myth and fable. The

Adin Even-Israel Steinsaltz

All beyond this is portentous and fabulous, inhabited by poets and mythologers, and there is nothing true or certain.

As no man had ever a point of pride that was not injurious to him, so no man had ever a defect that was not somewhere made useful to him. The stag in the fable admired his horns and blamed his feet, but when the hunter came, his feet saved him, and afterwards, caught in the thicket, his horns destroyed him.

Once upon a time! What kind of talk is that?

Fiction is a lie that tells us true things, over and over.

Fiction is a lie that tells us true things, over and over. I

Of course there are men here and there to whom the whole of life is like an after-dinner hour with a cigar; easy, pleasant, empty, perhaps enlivened by some fable of strife to be forgotten before the end is told—before the end is told—even if there happens to be any end to it.

What hap­pens to me if this slip­per fits? I turn you into a hand­some frog.

Verifiable knowledge makes its way slowly, and only under cultivation, but fable has burrs and feet and claws and wings and an indestructible sheath like weed-seed, and can be carried almost anywhere and take root without benefit of soil or water.

All cartoon characters and fables must be exaggeration, caricatures. It is the very nature of fantasy and fable.

A bluebear has twenty-seven lives. I shall recount thirteen-and-a-half of them in this book but keep quiet about the rest. A bear must have his secrets, after all; they make him seem attractive and mysterious.

I cannot tell how the truth may be;I say the tale as 'twas said to me.

The renowned and antient city of Gotham.

History fades into fable; fact becomes clouded with doubt and controversy; the inscription molders from the tablet; the statue falls from the pedestal. Columns, arches, pyramids, what are they but heaps of sand—and their epitaphs, but characters written in the dust?

There are a lot of unicorns, but I've never seen them.

Celui-là sent la mangue. Encore une histoire avec plus de noyau que de chair.