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He who would tell divers tales must know how to vary the tune. — Marie De France

Life is a big story. Music is just one way to tell it, to realize how many tales all kinds of people share. — Stasia Ward Kehoe

I'll tell you a secret.
Old storytellers never die.
They disappear into their own story. — Vera Nazarian

Shun an inquisitive man, he is invariably a tell-tale. — Horace

Gnostic tales tell of the homesickness of the soul, its yearning for its own milieu ... — Thomas Moore

I have tales to tell, but I don't tell them. Discretion. Discretion. — Gregory Peck

How easy it is to tell tales! — Denis Diderot

Great novels are above all great fairy tales ... literature does not tell the truth but makes it up. — Vladimir Nabokov

Half the lies I tell are not true. To tell you the truth, half the true tales I tell are lies. — Jack Thanatos

The best of fiction, as we know, of course, doesn't tell the truth; it tales the truth. — Criss Jami

There was a place in childhood that I remember well, And there a voice of sweetest tone bright fairy tales did tell. — Samuel Lover

I hate To tell again a tale once fully told. — Homer

Gusty McCabe, tha's m' name and tellin' stories, tha's m' game, If they all ain't true I ain't t' blame, I'll tell 'em all just the same. — Gusty McCabe

Sing Me no songs tell me no tales cry me no tears, but remember me kindly. — Danielle Steel

When thou dost tell another's jest, therein Omit the oaths, which true wit cannot need; Pick out of tales the mirth, but not the sin. — George Herbert

If you want to tell grown-up fairy tales, you have to look for the dark side. — Juan Antonio Bayona

While dead men tell no tales, their corpses often speak volumes. — Douglas Preston

I am thrilled to get the chance to write comics - and to tell Forgotten Realms tales, to boot! — Ed Greenwood

The laundry has its hands on my dirty shirts, sheets, towels and tablecloths, and who knows what tales they tell. — Joseph Smith Jr.

Edinburgh is an experience
A city of enormous gifts
Whose streets sing of history
Whose cobbles tell tales. — Alan Bold

Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten. — Neil Gaiman

Tell tales out of school. — John Heywood

The tales we tell ourselves about ourselves makes us who we are. — Megan McCafferty

Dead women tell no tales. Sad men write them down. — Lemony Snicket

Like all tales, it takes on the attributes that make it most appealing to those who tell it. — George R R Martin

Storytelling is a dangerous vocation, for the fairies punish those who return to tell their secrets. — Marina Warner

It's not just dead men who tell no tales. Live ones don't have much to say for themselves, either. — Michael Feldman

Fairy tales dont tell you that dragons are real, but that they can be defeated! — Kate DiCamillo

What they don't know is that I went over the edge years ago, and lived to tell the tale. — Rebecca Wells

Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed. — G.K. Chesterton

We might give her presents, tell some tales, but would she ever be able to really understand what the journey had been like for us? — Sara Sheridan

Messersmith, in a dispatch, observed that even smart, well-traveled Germans will "sit and calmly tell you the most extraordinary fairy tales. — Erik Larson

If I'm honest I have to tell you I still read fairy-tales and I like them best of all. — Audrey Hepburn

So we'll live, And pray, and sing, and tell old tales, and laugh at gilded butterflies. — William Shakespeare

It's all a farce, - these tales they tell About the breezes sighing, And moans astir o'er field and dell, Because the year is dying. — Paul Laurence Dunbar

Tell me the tales that to me were so dear, Long, long ago, long, long ago. — Thomas Haynes Bayly

Our selves are are rough and unrehearsed tales we tell the world. — William Alexander

People gave names to things so they could tell stories about them, goddam fairy tales about children who got out alive. — Sam Lipsyte

I can tell you all kinds of moral tales, but fashion and reality are vaguely different. — Karl Lagerfeld

In winter's tedious nights sit by the fire With good old folks, and let them tell thee tales Of woeful ages, long ago betid — William Shakespeare

I used to tell strange, wild, improbable tales akin to ghost stories, and discovered a taste for spinning yarns. — Algernon Blackwood

( ... ) every story one chooses to tell is a kind of censorship, it prevents the telling of other tales ( ... ) — Salman Rushdie

All good writing is persuasive writing; persuading the reader to buy what you're selling, to side with you, to believe the tales you tell. — Ramsey Isler

The wordy tale, once told, were hard to tell again. — Homer

Never tell tales about a woman. No matter how far away she is, shell always hear you. — Bryan Brown

Ah, now, don't cry over lost years and forgetfulness. The tales tell what they can. The rest is for us to learn.. — Shannon Hale

Your life have to be filled with interesting tales that it should not bore your grandchildren, when you tell them someday. — Pradeepa Pandiyan

What appalling tales we shall have to tell of the strange lands we visited; and of those lands, surely none was stranger or more barbaric than Rome! — Steven Saylor

Dead men tell no tales, Mary. — Daphne Du Maurier

I've met talespinners before, Jake, and they're all cut more or less from the same cloth. They tell tales because they're afraid of life. — Stephen King

We're not the sort of people who tell tales about what others do, — Fredrik Backman

If you want to make your children brilliant, tell them fairy tales. If you want to make them more brilliant, tell them more fairy tales. — Albert Einstein

I'm a storyteller who uses all of the beauty and power of cinema to tell tales of human struggles for positive social change. — Pamela Yates

It is tedious to tell again tales already plainly told. — Homer