Quotes About Fable

History is not fable agreed upon, but truth disagreed upon.

Now, then, that is the tale. Some of it is true.

Ama bu baÅŸka bir öyküdür, baÅŸka bir zaman anlat?lmal?.

even something long past could be born again if it occurred in a story

Questa è un'altra storia e andrà raccontata un'altra volta

I love, love, love fantasy, like 'Lord of the Rings' and things like that.

If it's today, you'll know it from the news. If it's a hundred thousand tomorrows from now, you'll know it as a legend. If it's later than that, you'll think it mere myth.

He was just making it up.

Lastly, matters of superstition and magic (in the common acceptation of the word) must not be entirely omitted. For although such things lie buried deep beneath a mass of falsehood and fable, yet they should be looked into a little. For it may be that in some of them some natural operation lies at the bottom, as in fascination, strengthening of the imagination, sympathy of things at a distance, transmission of impressions from spirit to spirit no less than from body to body, and the like.

Shams and delusions are esteemed for soundest truths, while reality is fabulous. If men would steadily observe realities only, and not allow themselves to be deluded, life, to compare it with such things as we know, would be like a fairy tale

The story of Terisa and Geraden began very much like a fable. She was a princess in a high tower. He was a hero come to rescue her. She was the only daughter of wealth and power. He was the seventh son of the lord of the seventh Care. She was beautiful from the auburn hair that crowned her head to the tips of her white toes. He was handsome and courageous. She was held prisoner by enchantment. He was a fearless breaker of enchantments. As in all the fables, they were made for each other.

A folktale without a moral is merely a whimsy.

It was the first time I'd realised that the giant in 'Jack and the Beanstalk' was an Afrikaner.

Better by far to embrace the hard truth than a reassuring fable

But there was more to it than that. As the Amazing Maurice said, it was just a story about people and rats. And the difficult part of it was deciding who the people were, and who were the rats.

In the original 'Fable,' Albion was kind of run by heroes and heroes were the thing, and there weren't any lords or kings, there were just heroes, and greater and greater heroes.

I first began to tell tales to delight the world and make it wiser...

So ignorant are most landsmen of some of the plainest and most palpable wonders of the world, that without some hints touching the plain facts, historical and otherwise, of the fishery, they might scout at Moby Dick as a monstrous fable, or still worse and more detestable, a hideous and intolerable allegory.

Champollion deciphered the wrinkled granite hieroglyphics. But there is no Champollion to decipher the Egypt of every man's and every being's face. Physiognomy, like every other human science, is but a passing fable.

Some stories are true that never happened.

Every story instructs. The teller ignores this truth at peril.

Each Fable is inspired by some true stories which doesn't have an happy ending, unlike the Fable.

Una leyenda es un pequeña mentira pergeñada para explicar una verdad universal.

Una leyenda es una mentira pergeñada para explicar una verdad universal.