Quotes About Fable

When a fictional work fails to show change, when it merely indicates that human character is set, stony, unregenerable, then you are out of the field of the novel and into that of the fable or the allegory.

WOMEN Well, I'll relate a rival fable just to show to you A different point of view: There was a rough-hewn fellow, Timon, with a face That glowered as through a thorn-bush in a wild, bleak place. He too decided on flight, This very Furies' son, All the world's ways to shun And hide from everyone, Spitting out curses on all knavish men to left and right. But though he reared this hate for men, He loved the women even then, And never thought them enemies. WOMAN O your jaw I'd like to break. MAN

I thought Earth was a fable for the young, spun out around campfires. And I thought Earth beings to be Titanides.

Fable has strong shoulders that carry far more truth than fact can.

In 'Fable 1,' the number of features was more important to me than what the features did. And as a games designer I've come to realize that it's not the number of features you have, it's the way that those features interact.

The hero is never the star of the story.

My first character was Mr. Toad.

The man who will demand ten signatures upon a promissory note and look askance at you if you tell him of interplanetary distances, will swallow any idle fable, no matter how absurd, if it be boldly asserted and surrounded with sufficient nonsensical mummery and labeled as a religion.

There was things which he stretched, but mainly he told the truth.

Bridgeport? Said I. Camelot, Said he.

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

LEGEND OF THE SPECTACULAR RUIN The

Suddenly they become the bleached bones of a story.

Nosotros contamos la verdad por cuanto en los cuentos siempre triunfa la verdad.

The action is played out on the golden horizon between reality and legend, the beguiling penumbra where fable and fact coexist.

It is the tale, not he who tells it.

And everyone lived happily, thought maybe not completely honestly, ever after. The End.

Human beings have always told their histories and truths through parable and fable. We are inveterate storytellers.

Carnivorous unicorns, I thought.

I came on board 'Clown' because it was a very simple story, and it was a very nice script and a very refreshing take on a kind of The Brothers Grimm fable, you know?

I envied those who could believe in a God and I distrusted them. I felt they were keeping their courage up with a fable of the changeless and the permanent. Death was far more certain than God, and with death there would be no longer the possibility of love dying.

Do you know the story of the scorpion and the frog? You know, the frog agrees to carry the scorpion across the river, because the scorpion promises not to sting him?' 'Yeah. And then the scorpion stings the frog, half way across the river. The drowning frog asks him why he did it, when they'll both drown, and the scorpion says that he's a scorpion, and it's his nature to sting.

It is my contention that Aesop was writing for the tortoise market. hares have no time to read.

Sometimes legends can be true.