Quotes about Fable
She is a monster, without being a myth, which is rather unfair.
- Oscar Wilde
I can find my biography in every fable that I read.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
According to an eastern fable, the rose was white when God created it, but when, as it unfolded, it felt Adam's eyes upon it, it blushed in modesty and turned pink.
- Victor Hugo
The whole God thing is actually an ancient fairy tale that people have been telling one another for thousands of years. We made it all up. Like Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny.
- Ernest Cline
Better by far to embrace the hard truth than a reassuring fable. If we crave some cosmic purpose, then let us find ourselves a worthy goal.
- Carl Sagan
A myth is a lie that conveys a truth.
- CS Lewis
A folktale without a moral is merely a whimsy.
- Stephen Sondheim
By myth I mean the arrangement of the incidents
- Aristotle
I am sure the grapes are sour.
- Aesop
One story is good, till another is told.
- Aesop
Stop telling such outlandish tales. Stop turning minnows into whales.
- Dr. Seuss
What child is this? "The Infinite has become a finite fact." Everything depends on this, or the nativity story is just a child's fable that no thinking adult can believe.
- Fleming Rutledge