Quotes About Fable

We know this story isn't true, but it is truth.

The point about a great story is that it's got a beginning, a middle and end.

fama de tortuoso.

Una fábula bien contada suele tener un poderoso efecto afrodisiaco.

I don't believe in God because I don't believe in Mother Goose.

To me the most important thing is a good story, though I know how cliche that sounds.

In the famous tale by Ahiqar, later picked up by Aesop (then again by La Fontaine), the dog boasts to the wolf all the contraptions of comfort and luxury he has, almost prompting the wolf to enlist. Until the wolf asks the dog about his collar and is terrified when he understands its use. "Of all your meals, I want nothing." He ran away and is still running.*3 The question is: what would you like to be, a dog or a wolf?

That's why people call him Humphrey," Connor adds. " 'Cause 'all the king's horses and all the king's men… couldn't put Humphrey together again.'

The inquisitive monkey gets a bullet in the face.

They say a story that begins with a beet will end with the devil; that is a risk we will have to take.

He looked like a kobold who had just been told that he was mythical.

Where are the gold pieces now?' the Fairy asked. 'I lost them,' answered Pinocchio, but he told a lie, for he had them in his pocket. As he spoke, his nose, long though it was, became at least two inches longer.

Little Red Riding Hood got what she deserved. You don't go walking in the woods alone if you want to avoid wolves." I was about to say something in response, but Nicky Ballard did it for me. "You could say that about the wolf, too. If you go around attacking defenseless girls, you can expect payback.

Wherever modern Science has exploded a superstitious fable or even a picturesque error, she has replaced it with a grander and even more poetical truth.

Most of the stories you hear about dragons are fodder for fools.

A fable from the Age of Heroes." The maester tsked. "You must put these dreams aside, they will only break your heart.

As I was saying before we were so rudely interrupted," Tyrion began, "there is a serious flaw in Littlefinger's fable. Whatever you may believe of me, Lady Stark, I promise you this—I never bet against my family.

So in the Libyan fable it is told That once an eagle, stricken with a dart, Said, when he saw the fashion of the shaft, 'With our own feathers, not by others' hands, Are we now smitten.'

But that is another story.

And thereby hangs a tale.

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

Never trust the teller. Trust the tale.

as historias se cuentan a si mismas, no las cuenta uno

The beautiful thing about 'The Strain Trilogy' is the ability to move from gore to high fable to creeping dread to domestic drama to unbearable suspense to the uncanny and on and on. The epic journey is designed to support these swings in mood, and that complements my tastes, which are wide-ranging.