Quotes About Fable

Some stories are real. And a lot of stories that aren't real are still true.

Much like to the mole in Æsopes fable, that, being blynd her selfe, would in no wise be perswaded that any beast could see.

I had clung to the fable of the Steppenwolf, believing that his redemption would also become mine.

some things were just meant to be good stories

Is this how you repay my goodness--with badness?" cried the boy. "Of course," said the crocodile out of the corner of his mouth. "That is the way of the world.

We've got plans for 'Fable' III, IV, and V. It's a big story arc, and if you play Fable II, you'll recognize things from 'Fable I.'

For me, art is make-believe. It's enchantment. It's a fable. I'm enjoying that and playing with it. Of course it's serious, and art is serious, but I'm not going to rarefy it.

Suspense films are often based on communication problems, and that affects all of the plot points. It almost gives it kind of a fable feeling.

It is a myth, not a mandate, a fable not a logic, and symbol rather than a reason by which men are moved.

Se Cuenta y se vuelve a contar con estas mismas palabras que he estado usando, que son las palabras que se usan en aquel Belén de Chamí que aún no aparece en el mapa, la fábula real de la madre que un día bisiesto fue de verdugo en verdugo pidiendo a los gritos que los mataran a ella y a sus dos hijos porque les habían dejado la familia sin padre.

Happy the Dragon was not so happy.

Another gift is Pansy's love. Bathed in that love, Lyle in turn is gentle with other kids, especially with kids uneasy under their bragging, kids really as frightened as rabbits when a hawk darkens their world. Lyle's underweight presence steadies them, and he is sought after—but not exactly as a friend. He is more like Anansi the helpful spider of his favorite tales—a quiet ally who prefers his own company but skitters over to join you when you need him.

The hare of whom the proverb goes,Whose valor plucks dead lions by the beard.

History is a fable agreed upon.

A drop of poison on that gathering snow. That moment in the fairy tale when we know what just happened but the princess doesn't.

Il ouvre un large bec, laisse tomber sa proie. Le Renard s'en saisit, et dit : "Mon bon Monsieur, Apprenez que tout flatteur Vit aux dépens de celui qui l'écoute : Cette leçon vaut bien un fromage, sans doute.

What makes 'The Lorax' such a powerful fable is partly its shamelessness. It pulls no punches; it wears its teacher heart on its sleeve.

To me, a fairy tale seems to have become reality.

But Goldilocks, like many freaks, Does not appreciate antiques.

It's what we call a fanciful life construction. Also known as baloney.

HEAR and attend and listen; for this befell and behappened and became and was, O my Best Beloved, when the Tame animals were wild. The Dog was wild, and the Horse was wild, and the Cow was wild, and the Sheep was wild, and the Pig was wild—as wild as wild could be—and they walked in the Wet Wild Woods by their wild lones. But the wildest of all the wild animals was the Cat. He walked by himself, and all places were alike to him.

There were forty wolves, and forty times a wolf was killed, so that at last they all lay dead in a heap before the Woodman.

Ah, reader, put thy trust in thy creator, and thou wilt be safe; but if thou trustest to the book called the scriptures thou trustest to the rotten staff of fable and falsehood.

Myth is someone else's religion.