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