Tale Quotes

Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player, that struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and then is heard no more; it is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.
William Shakespeare

Life, Nothing, Idiot

Life is as tedious as twice-told tale, vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.
William Shakespeare

Life, Dull, Tedious

All men are children, and of one family. The same tale sends them all to bed, and wakes them in the morning.
Henry David Thoreau

Family, Men, Morning

The value of life lies not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them... Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will.
Michel de Montaigne

Life, Find, Days

As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Life, Good, Long

I like Cinderella, I really do. She has a good work ethic. I appreciate a good, hard-working gal. And she likes shoes. The fairy tale is all about the shoe at the end, and I'm a big shoe girl.
Amy Adams

Work, Good, Girl

I should be very willing to redress men wrongs, and rather check than punish crimes, had not Cervantes, in that all too true tale of Quixote, shown how all such efforts fail.
Lord Byron

Men, True, Rather

Nobody has any conscience about adding to the improbabilities of a marvelous tale.
Nathaniel Hawthorne

Conscience, Nobody, Marvelous

Maybe my fairy tale has a different ending than I dreamed it would. But that's OK.
Kim Kardashian

Different, Maybe, Ending

Life itself is the most wonderful fairy tale.
Hans Christian Andersen

Life, Wonderful, Fairy

I'd imagine my wedding as a fairy tale... huge, beautiful and white.
Paris Hilton

Wedding, Beautiful, White

'Snow White' is an old fairy tale, so obviously the idea of vanity and obsession with youth is long-standing. With today's science, people have become crazy with trying to move their face around. It's bizarre.
Julia Roberts

Science, Today, Crazy

Having achieved and accomplished love... man... has become himself, his tale is told.
David Herbert Lawrence

Love, Become, Himself

The teller of a mirthful tale has latitude allowed him. We are content with less than absolute truth.
Charles Lamb

Truth, Him, Less

Never trust the artist. Trust the tale. The proper function of the critic is to save the tale from the artist who created it.
David Herbert Lawrence

Trust, Artist, Save

If you see the magic in a fairy tale, you can face the future.
Danielle Steel

Future, Face, Magic

When I went back to England after a year away, the country seemed stuck, dozing in a fairy tale, stifled by the weight of tradition.
Brian Eno

Country, After, Away

I have definitely gone through my ups and downs and faced my adversity and my nay-sayers, but managed to do all right. It is a pretty classic tale.
Steve Nash

Through, Pretty, Adversity

Some of the evil of my tale may have been inherent in our circumstances. For years we lived anyhow with one another in the naked desert, under the indifferent heaven.
T. E. Lawrence

Evil, May, Another

As I live and am a man, this is an unexaggerated tale - my dreams become the substances of my life.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Life, Dreams, Live

Great deeds give choice of many tales. Choose a slight tale, enrich it large, and then let wise men listen.
Pindar

Great, Men, Wise

Every man's life is a fairy tale written by God's fingers.
Hans Christian Andersen

Life, God, Written

I've learned that I want what I deny. I want someone who is crazy about me, who treats me like a princess. I want the picture-perfect fairy tale stuff.
Selena Gomez

Crazy, Someone, Learned

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

Reality, Become, Seems

I am your fairy tale. Your dream. Your wishes and desires, and I am your thirst and your hunger and your food and your drink.
Klaus Kinski

Food, Dream, Drink

Who tells a finer tale than any of us. Silence does.
Isak Dinesen

Silence, Finer, Tells

And I thought, when I have kids, that's the sort of well told, silly, and fun fairy tale that I would want to take them to. But it was an amazing experience. And I think Shrek is a real classic, a fairy tale classic.
Mike Myers

Experience, Amazing, Fun

Aside from that reservation, a fictive tale even has the advantage of manifesting symbolic necessity more purely to the extent that we may believe its conception arbitrary.
Jacques Lacan

May, Advantage, Necessity

The mind's passion is all for singling out. Obscurity has another tale to tell.
Adrienne Rich

Mind, Passion, Another

I always wanted the fairy tale, but now I want someone who is a great partner.
Elisabeth Rohm

Great, Someone, Wanted

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