Quotes about tales
tales forgetful tedious
Is there anything more tedious than the often repeated tales of the old and forgetful? Charles Caleb Colton
tales ends universe
A tale, like the universe, they tell us, expands ceaselessly each time you examine it, until there’s finally no telling exactly where it begins, or ends, or where it places you now. Chang-Rae Lee
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Trust the tale, not the teller. David Knopfler
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Every tale is not to be believed. Aesop
tales wiser
The tale is often wiser than the teller. Susan Fletcher
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It is the tale, not he who tells it. Stephen King
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I don't think you mess around when you talk about tales of valor. David Gregory
tales mice
A woman and a mouse, they carry a tale wherever they go. Gelett Burgess
tales familiarity truest
The truest tales require time and familiarity to become what they are. Erin Morgenstern
tales tact discretion
I have tales to tell, but I don't tell them. Discretion. Discretion. Gregory Peck
tales grain repeats
Why cover the same ground again? ... It goes against my grain to repeat a tale told once, and told so clearly. Homer
tales hard
The wordy tale, once told, were hard to tell again.
tales repetition tedious
What so tedious as a twice-told tale?
tales tedious
It is tedious to tell again tales already plainly told.
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Fairy tales are really violent, the original ones. Jane Levy
tales idle ifs
If history is deprived of the Truth, we are left with nothing but an idle, unprofitable tale. Polybius
tales improbability marvelous
Nobody has any conscience about adding to the improbabilities of a marvelous tale. Nathaniel Hawthorne
tales storyteller
I am not a storyteller . . . not like the others. I only have one tale to tell. Kate Morton
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A tale in everything. William Wordsworth