Tale Quotes - page 16

You could tell 'The Handmaid's Tale' from a male point of view. People have mistakenly felt that the women are oppressed, but power tends to organise itself in a pyramid. I could pick a male narrator from somewhere in that pyramid. It would interesting. (Margaret Atwood)
Maybe my fairy tale has a different ending than I dreamed it would. But that's OK. View quote
Kim Kardashian
A touch of science, even bogus science, gives an edge to the superstitious tale. View quote
V. S. Pritchett
But you will soon pay for it, my friend, when you take off your clothes, and with distended stomach carry your peacock into the bath undigested! Hence a sudden death, and an intestate old age; the new and merry tale runs the round of every dinner-table, and the corpse is carried forth to burial amid the cheers of enraged friends! View quote
Juvenal
Frances and Sebastian accept each other right from the get go, and the world the characters live in is one that is willing to change. I think you buy it because it's wrapped in this fairy tale theme and playing off these Disney Princess movie tropes. It would be a lot harder if I went for a strict historical theme. View quote
Jen Wang
As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters. View quote
Seneca
Let merchants traverse seas and lands, For silver mines and golden sands; Whilst I beside some shadowy rill, Just where its bubbling fountain swells, Do sit and gather stones and shells, And hear the tale the blackbird tells. View quote
Luis de Góngora
If the weak hand, that has recorded this tale, has, by its scenes, beguiled the mourner of one hour of sorrow, or, by its moral, taught him to sustain it - the effort, however humble, has not been vain, nor is the writer unrewarded. View quote
Ann Radcliffe
A fairy tale is the kind of story in which one king goes to another king to borrow a cup of sugar. View quote
Angela Carter
To be the object of desire is to be defined in the passive case. To exist in the passive case is to die in the passive case – that is, to be killed. This is the moral of the fairy tale about the perfect woman. View quote
Angela Carter
Our family histories are like fairy tales we're told from a very early age. In the tale, we're cast as hero or victim, as the infant rescued or abandoned, discounted or deified. From this we form an image of ourselves and our relationship to the world. Often it's a story we act out over and over again, trying to make the ending come out right instead of the way it did. (Sue Grafton)
She laced her fingers through his. "Good night," she whispered. With their hands clasped like children in a fairy tale, she fell asleep beside him in the dark. View quote
Cassandra Clare
I'm not sure if it's fair to call it a 'fairy tale,' but I really loved 'Mulan,' the Disney film. It was my favorite. I guess it's not really a fairy tale, but you do get Eddie Murphy as a dragon. View quote
Lily Cole
I'm bruised again, I wear it well, The self-inflicted tale they tell. View quote
Alicia Witt
Nearly every tale that men tell of magic and witches and such is born out of foolishness and ignorance and sickness of mind-or is a way of explaining things they do not understand. View quote
Susan Cooper
Sweet semblance of the children who have forsaken me, Archemorus, solace of my lost estate and country, pride of my servitude, what guilty gods took your life, my joy, whom but now in parting I left at play, crushing the grasses as you hastened in your forward crawl? Ah, where is your starry face? Where your words unfinished in constricted sounds, and laughs and gurgles that only I could understand? How often would I talk to you of Lemnos and the Argo and lull you to sleep with my long tale of woe! View quote
Statius
For me, any fiction of nobles and swords necessarily has to be a story of corruption, injustice and savagely violent conflict - because any other treatment is going to have all the heft and realistic honesty of a bedtime fairy tale for five year olds. View quote
Richard Morgan
Pretty much anything you care to imagine can happen in a fantasy, which in turn means you can really crank up the intensity of the tale you're telling. View quote
Richard Morgan
The elevation of Foucault to guru status by American and British academics is a tale that belongs to the history of cults. View quote
Camille Paglia
I adopted a healthier diet. I take at least a tablespoon of apple-cider vinegar a day. It's an old wives' tale, but it really is one of the best things you can put in your mouth. View quote
Melissa Etheridge
I cannot hear thy voice with others' ears, Who make of thy lost liberty a gain; And in thy tale of blighted hopes and fears Feel not that every note is born with pain. (Jones Very)
Sainthood emerges when you can listen to someone's tale of woe and not respond with a description of your own. View quote
Andrew Mason
Bullies are often people who are shy and can't make friends easily, so, as the theme of the movie 'A Bronx Tale' tells us, it is better to be feared if you can't be loved. View quote
Philip Zimbardo
My own story is like a fairy tale nobody would believe because it's exactly what you expect but it never happened. View quote
François-Eudes Chanfrault
A tale should be judicious, clear, succinct The language plain, and incidents well linkd Tell not as new what evry body knows and, new or old, still hasten to a close. View quote
William Cowper