Quotes of: Tale Keyword

Oh, man," said Jack. "Everyone was nice to us when we looked rich. Now it feels like the whole world's against us.

A Ghost Tale for Christmas Time

My definition of an intellectual is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture without thinking of the Lone Ranger" - Billy Connolly

Boulder Blues: A Tale of the Colorado Counterculture

Youth is but the painted shell within which, continually growing, lives that wondrous thing the spirit of a man, biding its moment of apparition, earlier in some than in others.

Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ

If thou dost think of me again, O tribune, let it not be lost in thy mind that I prayed thee only for word of my people - mother, sister.

Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ

- If you could describe my son in 3 words, what would you say? - Sweet. Cute. Funny. - That could be a description of a puppy she says dryly.

14 Twisted Tales To Enthrall

Vampires, real vampires, didn't nibble on the necks of nubile young virgins. They tore people to pieces and sucked the blood out of the chunks.

99 Coffins: A Historical Vampire Tale

Weddings, I began to understand, were vile, filthy things when they ran amuck.

Autobiography of a Fat Bride: True Tales of a Pretend Adulthood

And in what fairy tale would John ever be any sane person's idea of Prince Charming anyway? He was the opposite of charming. More like Prince Terrifying.

Abandon

[A] finished tale may give a man immortality in the light and literary sense; but an unfinished tale suggests another immortality, more essential and more strange.

Appreciations and criticisms of the works of Charles Dickens

My story is of such marvel that if it were written with a needle on the corner of an eye, it would yet serve as a lesson to those who seek wisdom.

The Arabian Nights: Tales from a Thousand and One Nights

What Hans had intended to end at a simple kiss quickly escalated into something neither one of them seemed able to stop.

Hans & Greta: a Twisted Fairy Tale Novella

The candle’s flame washed her in a sensual bath of pulsating light, and Hans became entranced by the soft glow upon her skin.

Hans & Greta: a Twisted Fairy Tale Novella

I hate math. It's hard, it's stupid, and it's nature's way of separating spinsters from women who end up breeding.

Highly Inappropriate Tales for Young People

His whole life was a sham, a fairy tale. The truth hidden behind a wall of lies, each lie another brick in the wall until he probably couldn't see the truth anymore.

The Kult

reading a good book in silence is like eating chocolate for the rest of your life and never getting fat.

Kiss Me Deadly: 13 Tales of Paranormal Love

It was a well-known fact that Lorna was leaving in six months’ time, since Lorna had been leaving in six months’ time for close to twenty-five years.

Rosie Little's Cautionary Tales for Girls

Since we live in the heads of those who remember us, we lose control of our lives and become who they want us to be.

Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives

Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it, we go nowhere - Carl Sagan

Serenity's Dream: A Collection of Tales and Poems about Mystical Journeys.

Sometimes, the only way to exorcise old ghosts is to pack your bags and move in with them.

Songs of Love and Death: All-Original Tales of Star-Crossed Love

It's like a fairy tale. . . on crack!

The Love of Three Oranges: A Play for the Theatre That Takes the Commedia Dell'arte of Carlo Gozzi and Updates It for the New Millennium

Don't you know Poole, you and I are about to place ourselves in a position of some peril?

The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Other Tales of Terror