Quotes of: Fairy-tale Keyword

The moral of the tale is this: whoever allows himself to be whipped, deserves to be whipped.

Venus in Furs

From even the greatest of horrors irony is seldom absent.

Tales of H.P. Lovecraft

I think part of being an adult is leaving the fairytale behind.

Rashida Jones

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

Karl Lagerfeld

Newton, of course, was the inventor of differential calculus so his place in the tale is quite special.

Kit Williams

Cinderella is not only an iconic character when it comes to beauty, grace and fairytale love, but also shoes.

Christian Louboutin

Vulgar and obscene, the papers run rumors daily about people in show business, tales of wicked ways and witless affairs.

Carroll O'Connor

A tale is born from an image, and the image extends and creates a network of meanings that are always equivocal.

Italo Calvino

The proper function of the critic is to save the tale from the artist who created it.

D.H. Lawrence

Moza: Good evening, a table for one? Cuenca: I see you're good at math.

Wild Tales

Modern morality and manners suppress all natural instincts, keep people ignorant of the facts of nature and make them fighting drunk on bogey tales.

Aleister Crowley

Josephine: Oh, so this is a tall tale? Senior Ed Bloom: Well, it's not a short one.

Big Fish

[Anello family eats steak once a week] Calogero 'C' Anello: I'm not in the mood for steak.

A Bronx Tale

Fairly tales are myths, and myths are only myths because there's a grain of truth in them.

Silas Weir Mitchell

We read the weird tales in newspapers to crowd out the even weirder stuff inside us.

Alain de Botton

Tales of power and ambition and intrigue and betrayal and desire - when you're telling those in a big way, you automatically want to go to Shakespeare.

Beau Willimon

A normal life? Now that’s the real fairytale." From UNDER MY SKIN

Life

What is literature but the expression of moods by the vehicle of symbol and incident? And are there not moods which need heaven, hell, purgatory, and faeryland for their expression, no less than this dilapidated earth? Nay, are there not moods which ...

The Celtic Twilight: Faerie and Folklore

This was no longer art: it even destroyed the harmony of the portrait itself. They were alive, they were human eyes! It seemed as if they had been cut out of a living man and set there. Here there was not that lofty pleasure which comes over the soul...

The Collected Tales of Nikolai Gogol

...all this convinced him that he had come to one of those revolting havens where pathetic depravity makes its abode, born of tawdry education and the terrible populousness of the capital. One of those havens where man blasphemously crushes and derid...

The Collected Tales of Nikolai Gogol

A swishing is often heard in the Carpathians, the sound as of a thousand mill wheels turning in the water. It is the dead men gnawing at the dead man, in the abyss without issue, which no man has ever seen, fearing to pass near it. It happens not sel...

The Collected Tales of Nikolai Gogol