Fable Quotes
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Fable Quotes & Sayings
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The artist is the child in the popular fable, every one of whose tears was a pearl.
— Heinrich Heine
There is a line of poetry, a sentence in a fable, a word in an essay, by which my existence is justified; find that line, and immortality is assured.
— Alberto Manguel
Our destinies are intertwinedlike the stems of ivy on an oak tree. — Chris Tinniswood
Pruned my subconscious. Discovered new shoots.
— Sally Jo Martine
Each Fable is inspired by some true stories which doesn't have an happy ending, unlike the Fable.
— Neetesh Dixit
Uh-uh, I would rather got hrough the front door and tackle the giants than have to life-saving-suck-kiss you for five minutes.
— Chanda Hahn
And when life's sweet fable ends,Soul and body part like friends;
No quarrels, murmurs, no delay;
A kiss, a sigh, and so away. — Richard Crashaw
For all things fade and turn to fable, and quickly too, utter oblivion covers them like sand.
— Marcus Aurelius
Fiction or fable allures to instruction.
— Benjamin Franklin
As we are poetical in our natures, so we delight in fable.
— William Hazlitt
The enduring rapture with magic and fable has always struck me as latently childish and somehow sexless (and thus also related to childlessness).
— Christopher Hitchens
The moral?" Hermes asked. "Goodness, you act like it's a fable. It's a true story. Does truth have a moral?
— Rick Riordan
Aesop fable. "You can play the clever fox all you want - but you'll never get the grapes that way.
— Rolf Dobelli
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 — Napoleon Bonaparte
Still we live meanly like ants, though the fable tells us we were long ago changed into men.
— Henry David Thoreau
The job of reflection is to add a dimension of fable to the reality!
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
What profit has not that fable of Christ brought us!
— Pope Leo X
Providence has done, and I am persuaded is disposed to do, a great deal for us; but we are not to forget the fable of Jupiter and the countryman.
— George Washington
A simple and heart-warming fable, one might think - in which case, one would reveal oneself to be an innocent nincompoop.
— J.K. Rowling
I can find my biography in every fable that I read.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
India, the new mytha collective fiction in which anything was possible, a fable rivalled only by the two other mighty fantasies: money and God. — Salman Rushdie
Like a fable, Night when a Milky Way goes through the other Milky WayMy hope is standing
He walked with the speed of memories — Lewis Carroll
Every myth has a modicum of truth
— Lonny Lee
Read my little fable: He that runs may read. Most can raise the flowers now, For all have got the seed.
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
Perhaps to love is to learnto walk through this world.
To learn to be silent
Like the oak and linden of fable.
To learn to see — Octavio Paz
Did universal charity prevail, earth would be a heaven, and hell a fable.
— Charles Caleb Colton
At heart, 'Chef' is a daddy-daycare fable about an overextended man who teaches his 10-year-old son the family business and learns to love him.
— Richard Corliss
The Allwise Creator hath been dishonored by being made the author of fable and the human mind degraded by believing it.
— Thomas Paine
A text from Fable and it says one word. Marshmallow
— Monica Murphy
Fable is more historical than fact, because fact tells us about one man and fable tells us about a million men.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
I could end this with a moral,as if this were a fable about animals,
though no fables are really about animals. — Margaret Atwood
When I was quite a boy I had a spasm of religion which lasted six weeks ... But I never since have swallowed the Christian fable.
— George Meredith
Pope Leo Xth is reported as saying, "The fable of Christ has been quite profitable to us.
— Elliot George
History is a combination of reality and lies. The reality of History becomes a lie. The unreality of the fable becomes the truth.
— Jean Cocteau
Nobody gets me like paper and pen
— Lisa Sharpe
Is that not the Promethean fable, that the fire stolen from the gods will light men their way even while it burns their hands?
— Zia Haider Rahman
I wanted to write a new fable and see how many rules you could break.
— Jeanette Winterson
The fable says that the tortoise won in the end, which is consoling, but the hare shows a good deal of speed and few signs of tiring.
— Northrop Frye
People talk of natural sympathies ; I have heard of good genii ; there are grains of truth in the wildest fable.
— Charlotte Bronte
Oh this is reality, not a fable, that the Lord Jesus Christ is our friend. And we should not be satisfied until we are brought to this.
— George Muller
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
My mom was pretty dead on when she named me Fable, wasn't she? I don't feel real to anyone.
— Monica Murphy
Oh, this is a reality, not a fable, that the Lord Jesus Christ is our friend. And we should not be satisfied till we are brought to this
— George Muller
![Fable Quotes By Josephine De Beauharnais: [On Napoleon assuming power in France:] The time](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/fable-quotes-by-josephine-de-beauharnais-1200851.jpg "Fable Quotes By Josephine De Beauharnais: [On Napoleon assuming power in France:] The time")
[On Napoleon assuming power in France:] The time of Fable is over, the time of History has begun.
— Josephine De Beauharnais
