Quotes About Fable

Myths, told for their own sake, are not stories that have meanings, but stories that give meanings.

Myth doesn't mean something untrue, but a concentration of truth.

Every tale is not to be believed.

The Wolf in Sheep's Clothing.

A huge gap appeared in the side of the mountain. At last a tiny mouse came forth.

Doth someone say that there be gods above? There are not, no, there are not. let no fool, led by the old false fable, thus deceive you. Look at the facts themselves, yielding my words No undue credence; for I say that kings Kill, rob, break oaths, lay cities to waste by fraud, And doing thus are happier than those who live calm pious lives day by day.

I'd love personally... this is not an announcement at all, but I would love to see 'Fable 2' on the PC.

But are the serpents real, or just a story?" Pathka's eyes swiveled quizzically. "There's nothing 'just' about stories. Stories are the most real.

Well, I suppose I'm interested in ways of storytelling and in stories that are about storytelling.

I have played the fox, now I must play the cat of the fable.

Once upon a time...long ago in a far-off place that everyone knows is not here or now or us.

Aber sie halten es für eine Legende!' 'Weil sie es dafür halten wollen. Vielleicht würden sich manche Märchen und Mythen als wahr herausstellen, wenn nur jemand den Mut aufbrächte, in einem Brunnen nach einer goldenen Kugel zu suchen oder die Dornenhecke vor einem Schloss zu zerschneiden.

Is there a character in all of fiction more isolated than the little red hen?

That is a question you have to ask the Old Man of the Moon.

Still we live meanly like ants, though the fable tells us we were long ago changed into men.

India, the new myth--a collective fiction in which anything was possible, a fable rivalled only by the two other mighty fantasies: money and God.

All the great masters have understood that there cannot be great art without the little limited life of the fable, which is always better the simpler it is, and the rich, far-wandering, many-imaged life of the half-seen world beyond it

A good story is like a bitter pill, with the sugar coating inside of it.

I think I'm always drawn to a good story

What I like best is a good story with a moral.

History is the recital of facts represented as true. Fable, on the other hand, is the recital of facts represented as fiction.

History often resembles myth, because they are both ultimately of the same stuff.

History is filled with fictional people.

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