Top 195 Tale Quotes

Words matter. These are the best Tale Quotes from famous people such as Graydon Carter, Bryan Lee O’Malley, Pindar, Al Feldstein, Victoria Aveyard, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.

History is nothing if not an epic tale of missed opport

History is nothing if not an epic tale of missed opportunities.
Graydon Carter
‘Seconds’ is grounded in the reality of this restaurant environment, and I did do plenty of research, so there’s that. It takes place in a town that is like a kinder, gentler fairy tale version of reality. Then it takes off into a story that is very strange, very mental.
Bryan Lee O’Malley
Great deeds give choice of many tales. Choose a slight tale, enrich it large, and then let wise men listen.
Pindar
When I was a kid, I used to sneak down the stairs when my folks were listening to ‘The Witch’s Tale’ and ‘Inner Sanctum’ on the radio. I went to see ‘Frankenstein’ in the movie theater and got the pants scared off of me.
Al Feldstein
I don’t necessarily set out to teach or say anything in particular in my writing. Morals and themes come out as I’m telling the tale.
Victoria Aveyard
Usually, the fairy tale ends with the girl marrying the prince. But mine started as soon as the marriage was over.
Diane von Furstenberg
I certainly don’t think of my life as a fairy tale. I think of myself as a modern, contemporary woman who has had to deal with all kinds of problems that many women today have to deal with.
Grace Kelly
‘Pride and Prejudice’ is often compared to ‘Cinderella,’ but Jane Austen’s real ‘Cinderella’ tale is ‘Mansfield Park.’
Susanna Clarke
I know that in spite of my varied career accomplishments, the one that will always excite and intrigue is the KKK investigation. It has defined me in ways unimaginable and has always fascinated those who hear its tale.
Ron Stallworth
To me, a fairy tale seems to have become reality.
Nelly Sachs
I’d love to play Constance in ‘King John’ or Paulina in ‘The Winter’s Tale.’ I’d like to go on working till I drop.
Prunella Scales
I was a great reader of fairy tales. I tried to read the entire fairy tale section of the library.
Beverly Cleary
I have definitely gone through my ups and downs and faced my adversity and my nay-sayers, but managed to do all right. It is a pretty classic tale.
Steve Nash
I remembered reading about a disease called Leishmaniasis, which matched my symptoms. I’d always thought it was an old wives’ tale – a sand fly bite that eats your flesh. But when I looked on the internet and saw pictures of people who had it, their lesions looked like mine.
Ben Fogle
To me, there is nothing but puerility in a tale in which the human form – and local human passions and conditions and standards – are depicted as native to other worlds and universes.
H. P. Lovecraft
For me, any fiction of nobles and swords necessarily has to be a story of corruption, injustice and savagely violent conflict – because any other treatment is going to have all the heft and realistic honesty of a bedtime fairy tale for five year olds.
Richard K. Morgan
When it came to ‘Concussion,’ I found myself with so many threads to weave. So integral to the whistle-blower’s tale were spirituality, the cost of hero-worshipping, what it means to be an American, and just how dangerous the truth can be.
Peter Landesman
Shirin Farhad’ is a romantic tale of an unmarried couple who feel they can live together forever. Having crossed the marriageable age, what happens to them forms the crux of the story. The movie has several comic sequences with an emotional touch to it.
Farah Khan
I’ve always liked fairy tale and spectacle. I wouldn’t say I was a fantasy fan, but anything beyond reality I’ve always found exciting – the work of David Lynch, the work of Tim Burton. But for me, I also love those things that are absolutely about human relationships.
Gwendoline Christie
I’ve tried to show in my most recent book, the ‘Irresistible Fairytale’, that in order to talk about any genre, particularly what we call simple genre – a myth, a legend, an anecdote, a tall tale, and so on – we really have to understand something about the origin of stories all together.
Jack Zipes
Through machinery, man can exert tremendous powers almost as fantastic as if he were the hero of a fairy tale. Through machinery, man can travel with an ever increasing velocity; he can fly through the air and go beneath the surface of the ocean.
Maria Montessori
I binge pretty much everything. If I’m watching something, I’m bingeing it. I binged ‘The Good Place’ recently. ‘Handmaid’s Tale.’
Shonda Rhimes
When I began work on my first book, ‘The River of Doubt,’ which tells the story of Theodore Roosevelt’s 1914 descent of an unmapped river in the Amazon rainforest, I thought of it as a tale of adventure, exploration and extraordinary courage.
Candice Millard
There was a movie that was made about ‘The Handmaid’s Tale.’ And I never watched it on purpose because I didn’t want to… I just didn’t want to know.
Reed Morano
‘The Hatfields and McCoys’ is a classic tale of American history. These are names that are widely recognized, yet few people know the real story that made them famous.
Nancy Dubuc
Hollywood always represents this big dream and fairy tale in people’s minds, but to me, it’s just hard work. Of course, we play fairy tale on the red carpet. It’s all Cinderella. But when the clock strikes midnight, I turn into a gray mouse and I go home, and I take my dress off and it’s over. That’s Hollywood.
Olga Kurylenko
I think my favorite movie I watched with my dad would be ‘A Knight’s Tale’ with Heath Ledger.
Charles Melton
Is it not the business of the conductor to convey to the public in its dramatic form the central idea of a composition; and how can he convey that idea successfully if he does not enter heart and soul into the life of the music and the tale it unfolds?
John Philip Sousa
People talk about places like Mumbai as a tale of two cities, as if the rich and poor don’t have anything to do with each other.
Katherine Boo
‘Slumdog Millionaire’ is a fairy tale, but it starts in a place you really believe, and that came from spending two months wandering around the slums picking up stories and talking to people.
Simon Beaufoy
‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ is a horrifying and horrifyingly possible vision of the future.
Phyllida Lloyd
The Long and the Short and the Tall made a great impres

The Long and the Short and the Tall made a great impression on me because it was a very ugly tale about the reality of soldiering at a time when we were being gung-ho about the whole thing of war.
Timothy West
You see the fairy tale – four minutes of glory at the Olympics. I thought my life would be cake after that.
Dorothy Hamill
Mary Trump’s ‘Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World’s Most Dangerous Man’ tells a remarkable story, the broad strokes of which many already knew. Mary Trump offers a tale of what she calls ‘malignant’ family dysfunction, and how it produced a malignantly dysfunctional president.
George T. Conway III
The idea that an author can extricate her or his own ongoing life experience from the tale being written is a conceit of very little worth.
Steven Erikson
My English teachers gave me a copy of Atwood’s ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ when I left high school, which has always been very special to me – it was the novel that introduced me to dystopian fiction. I’m also influenced by Edgar Allan Poe, Dickens, John Wyndham and Middle English dream-visions.
Samantha Shannon
When you mimic everyone, sometimes authority figures really don’t appreciate it which is not an original story. And pretty much every comedian has some tale of that.
Hank Azaria
My parents knew about the story of Aladdin far before the animation film. It’s a folk tale that is very prevalent in Egypt.
Mena Massoud
No matter what you write, you actually can’t help retelling a fairy tale somewhere along the way.
Catherynne M. Valente
My life has been nothing short of a fairy tale.
Shefali Zariwala
Seeing my parents makes me realise that life is not a fairy tale.
Mollie King
Every man’s life is a fairy tale written by God’s fingers.
Hans Christian Andersen
I’ll sit down for ‘Stranger Things’ or ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ – or a really good documentary.
Russell Howard
What feats of ingenuity have we not been forced to perform, at times, in order to meet our customers’ wishes? Those only who have had charge of a large, modern kitchen can tell the tale.
Auguste Escoffier
Miramax seems to be showing the same faith in Roberto Benigni’s ‘Pinocchio’ that the Republican Party showed in Trent Lott; the live-action version of Carlo Collodi’s fairy tale about the wooden puppet whose only ambition was to be a real live boy was sneaked into theaters Christmas Day.
Elvis Mitchell
Divorce in a young-adult novel means what being orphaned meant in a fairy tale: vulnerability, danger, unwanted independence.
Caitlin Flanagan
I absolutely knew that I wanted to play role-playing games when I saw a friend of mine playing ‘Bard’s Tale 2’ on his Commodore 64.
Chris Avellone
‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ is not a book or show advocating enslaving women or creating a theocracy. It’s not glorifying that. It’s talking about what happens if that happens.
Laeta Kalogridis
I love to be scared. Not, ‘Hey, I think I smell smoke…’ scared, but creepy, paranoid, what’s-that-out-there-in-the-dark, ghost story scared. It’s no surprise that I was the girl who got invited to the slumber parties because I could be counted on to tell a tale to scare the bejesus out of you.
Libba Bray
In the fairy tale the painting represents the here and now. The book is actually divided into five sections, through which the key character, the muse, leads us.
Kit Williams
When I was younger, I had this fairy tale that you can have the eight hours of sleep and be a healthy, balanced person and still achieve your goals. The reality is, that hasn’t always been the case.
Lilly Singh
I always wanted the fairy tale, but now I want someone who is a great partner.
Elisabeth Rohm
My grandmother, Amalia Pia Emilia Vignola, whom I called Nonna, brought out the fairy tale in everything. She used to tuck me into bed so vigorously that I never felt anything less than comforted, and then afterwards, she would sit on a cane basket box next to my bed and read Hans Christian Andersen to me.
Emilia Wickstead