Allegory Quotes: top 49 famous quotes about Allegory

Allegory Quotes & Sayings

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The allegory of blood. — Anonymous

I don't like allegory. — China Mieville

Every incident in the Old Testament was considered to pre-figure in allegory what was to come in the New. — Barbara W. Tuchman

The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page. — Augustine Of Hippo

A fairytale is not an allegory. There may be allegory in it, but it is not an allegory. — George MacDonald

A priest is he who lives solely in the realm of the invisible, for whom all that is visible has only the truth of an allegory. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

At this the duchess, laughing all the while, said: Sancho Panza is right in all he has said, and will be right in all he shall say ... — Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra

I don't feel I have to struggle against allegory. I let the readers do the interpreting. — Lydia Davis

If Scripture were to describe the downfall of an empire in the style adopted by political historians, the common people would not be stirred. — Baruch Spinoza

All perishable is but an allegory. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

All my means are sane, my motive and my object mad. — Herman Melville

I was the only boy in our school what had asthma," said the fat boy with a touch of pride. "And I've been wearing specs since I was three. — William Golding

Everything for me becomes allegory. — Charles Baudelaire

Confession is a sacred rite enhanced by allegory, exaggeration, and lies. — Craig Ferguson

it is an allegory of our times. — Arthur Miller

Death is imposed only on creatures, not their creations, and has therefore always appeared in art in a broken form: as allegory. — Theodor W. Adorno

Into an allegory a man can put only what he already knows; in a myth he puts what he does not yet know and could not come by in any other way. — C.S. Lewis

It's like Tolstoy said. Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story. — Haruki Murakami

The question concerning Jesus: do you want to know the real story, or just the allegory? — Eli Of Kittim

Some writers are so enthralled by ideas (one thinks of Doris Lessing) that their characters become debaters, and their fables approach allegory. — Edmund White

Once one is beyond a certain level of commitment to the sport, life begins to seem an allegory of rowing rather than rowing an allegory of life. — Stefan Kieszling

All is allegory ... Each creature is key to all other creatures. — J.M. Coetzee

Nowhere in Chaucer do we find what can be called a radically allegorical poem. — C.S. Lewis

The Allegory of the Wolf Boy" ("At tennis and at tea/Upon the gentle lawn, he is not ours,/But plays us in a sad duplicity"). — Oliver Sacks

The writer's function is to prevent myths turning into allegories. — Michel Tournier

On the Day of Judgment , life and death are not determined by the world but by God's wisdom and law — John Bunyan

He saw in Mr Chivery, with some astonishment, quite an Allegory of Silence, — Charles Dickens

Twelve dead?" I said. "Jesus. — Dennis Lehane

Hence all original religions are allegorical, or susceptible of allegory, and, like Janus, have a double face of false and true — Percy Bysshe Shelley

No story can be devised by the wit of man which cannot be interpreted allegorically by the wit of some other man. — C.S. Lewis

When confronted with a clear definition of what it is to be Mexican, we encounter ourselves in a never ending allegory of mixes and chaos. — Gael Garcia Bernal

Sounds like another allegory, interrupted the unknown voice, if you want to be blind, then blind you will be. — Jose Saramago

A man's life of any worth is a continual allegory, and very few eyes can see the mystery of his life, a life like the scriptures, figurative. — John Keats

Religion thrives on woolly allegory, emotional commitments to texts that no one reads, and other forms of benign hypocrisy. — Steven Pinker

A little allegory of the soul - wherever it hides, God will find it. — Eileen Atkins

The Patriots deflated balls are but an allegory for America's deflated balls in dealings with Putin, the Mullahs in Iran, and Islamic terrorists. — Dennis Miller

I could end this with a moral,
as if this were a fable about animals,
though no fables are really about animals. — Margaret Atwood

A thing may happen and be a total lie; another thing may not happen and be truer then the truth — Leah Wilson

All life is only allegory and the real story is not here ... — Richard Flanagan

Each character is an allegory for every aspect of human existence. — Vanna Bonta

The philosophers stone is just an allegory. It represents everything that man wants and can never have. — Katherine Howe

She's as headstrong as an allegory on the banks of the Nile. — Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Nature is a word, an allegory, a mold, an embossing, if you will. — Charles Baudelaire

Farewell, I wish our souls may meet with comfort at the journey's end.-
The Heavenly Footman: A Puritan's View of How to Get to Heaven. — John Bunyan

Allegories are, in the realm of thought, what ruins are in the realm of things. — Walter Benjamin

I follow suit, said the lion,
vacating his coat of arms
and movie logos; and the eagle said,
Get me off this flag. — Margaret Atwood

Tolstoy said, happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story - then what does that make us? ... — John Geddes

Comparisons are like rigid fingers - eager to point at a subject but unwilling to grasp it. — Richelle E. Goodrich

An allegory is not meant to be taken literally. There is a great lack of comprehension on the part of some readers. — Naguib Mahfouz