Quotes about Fable
A myth is a lie that conveys a truth.
— CS Lewis
Myths, told for their own sake, are not stories that have meanings, but stories that give meanings.
— James Carse
I am sure the grapes are sour.
— Aesop
If you're going to have a story, have a big story, or none at all.
— Joseph Campbell
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
She is a monster, without being a myth, which is rather unfair.
— Oscar Wilde
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
One story is good, till another is told.
— Aesop
By myth I mean the arrangement of the incidents
— Aristotle
I can find my biography in every fable that I read.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
A folktale without a moral is merely a whimsy.
— Stephen Sondheim
Stop telling such outlandish tales. Stop turning minnows into whales.
— Dr. Seuss