Quotes of: Tale Keyword

Children being children, however, the grotesque Hopping Pot had taken hold of their imaginations. The solution was to jettison the pro-Muggle moral but keep the warty cauldron, so by the middle of the sixteenth century a different version of the tale...

The Tales of Beedle the Bard

Fairy tales in childhood are stepping stones throughout life, leading the way through trouble and trial. The value of fairy tales lies not in a brief literary escape from reality, but in the gift of hope that goodness truly is more powerful than evil...

L.R. Knost

When I was a little girl I used to read fairy tales. In fairy tales you meet Prince Charming and he's everything you ever wanted. In fairy tales the bad guy is very easy to spot. The bad guy is always wearing a black cape so you always know who he is...

Taylor Swift

Fairy tales die hard in the minds and hearts of some girls. Quinn

Chose the Wrong Guy, Gave Him the Wrong Finger

He was no stranger to compassion: his heart was open to many good impulses, though his rank often prevented their manifestation.

The Collected Tales of Nikolai Gogol

Beer bottles, whiskey bottles, brown glass, green. They fell to the lawn and I'd feel serene. Adam was king to my stilted queen.

The Complete Tales of Ketzia Gold

They were still all beautiful and there was still enchantment and wonder, but she had crossed a line and now the fairy tale was green with corruption and evil.

Carrie

Here be dragons to be slain, here be rich rewards to gain; If we perish in the seeking, why, how small a thing is death!

Catholic Tales and Christian Songs

Reader, you must know that an interesting fate (sometimes involving rats, sometimes not) awaits almost everyone, mouse or man, who does not conform.

Despereaux = Tale of Despereaux

Once I learned, I went online and ordered every romance novel I could find. They're fairy tales for grown-ups.

The Darkest Night

You know you have received the invitation when your heart is ready to risk everything to hold the hand of God.

DAMASCENA - The Tale of Roses and Rumi

The only mistake you have made is asking the wrong question. It isn't about what you did wrong. It's what you have not yet done.

DAMASCENA - The Tale of Roses and Rumi

Aunt Syl must have conveniently stopped reading the childhood fairy tales when the knight left the damsel in distress to pursue a better damsel out of my bedtime routine.

Endless Magic

Yet he saw that in all places there was originality, resulting from the human efforts at decoration and ingenious methods of survival.

The Father's Tale: A Novel

This was like being in one of those National Geographic magazines. We were among the natives now.

Faerie Tales: The Misfortune of a Teenage Socialite

The wounded were crying, and the rest were dying. Jack stood alone in a hallway of mangled men, who had been trained for this

Friedkin's Curse: A Werewolf Tale of Terror

A mouth of no distinction but well practiced, before I entered my teens, in irony. For what is irony but the repository of hurt? And what is hurt but the repository of hope?

Faithless: Tales of Transgression

Through seeing the good in others, you also see the best within yourself.

The Farm of Wisdom: 25 Unforgettable Tales that Will Ignite a Wiser You!

One who has a clear mind can never be fooled by his senses.

The Farm of Wisdom: 25 Unforgettable Tales that Will Ignite a Wiser You!

And Death spoke to them —’” “Sorry,” interjected Harry, “but Death spoke to them?” “It’s a fairy tale, Harry!” “Right, sorry. Go on.

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

It is neither wise nor honest to detract from beauty as a quality. There cannot be a refined soul insensible to its influence.

Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ