Definition of Fable

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Definition of Fable

Fable

A Feigned story or tale, intended to instruct or amuse; a fictitious narration intended to enforce some useful truth or precept; an apologue. See the Note under Apologue.

The plot, story, or connected series of events, forming the subject of an epic or dramatic poem.

Any story told to excite wonder; common talk; the theme of talk.

Fiction; untruth; falsehood.

To compose fables; hence, to write or speak fiction ; to write or utter what is not true.

To feign; to invent; to devise, and speak of, as true or real; to tell of falsely.

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Fable Quotations

All cartoon characters and fables must be exaggeration, caricatures. It is the very nature of fantasy and fable.
Walt Disney

What is history but a fable agreed upon?
Napoleon Bonaparte

Fable is more historical than fact, because fact tells us about one man and fable tells us about a million men.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

There are men here and there to whom the whole of life is like an after-dinner hour with a cigar; easy, pleasant, empty, perhaps enlivened by some fable of strife to be forgotten - before the end is told - even if there happens to be any end to it.
Joseph Conrad

I wanted to write a new fable and see how many rules you could break.
Jeanette Winterson

Did universal charity prevail, earth would be a heaven, and hell a fable.
Charles Caleb Colton

From this, without doubt, sprang the fable. Man created it thus, because it was not given him to see more than himself and nature, which surrounds him; but he created it true with a truth all its own.
Alfred de Vigny

Whosoever counts these Lays as fable, may be assured that I am not of his mind.
Marie de France

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

Fable Translations

fable in Danish is fabel
fable in Dutch is fabel
fable in French is fable
fable in German is Fabel
fable in Latin is fabula
fable in Norwegian is fabel, fable, dikte
fable in Swedish is myt, legend, fabel, saga

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