Top 1039 Cautionary Tales Quotes & Sayings - Page 4

If I'm honest I have to tell you I still read fairy-tales and I like them best of all.

Of all tales 'tis the saddest--and more sad, Because it makes us smile.

Dead men hear no tales; posthumous fame is an Irish bull.

He who would tell divers tales must know how to vary the tune.

The naive was only a part of my fairy tales; humour was the real salt in them.

All the ancient classic fairy tales have always been scary and dark.

Dragons and bridges are very much something out of fairy tales and fantasy.

Apparently I'm well-known for my stories, my raconteur tales, that sort of thing.

It's not just dead men who tell no tales. Live ones don't have much to say for themselves, either.

The laundry has its hands on my dirty shirts, sheets, towels and tablecloths, and who knows what tales they tell.

So we'll live, And pray, and sing, and tell old tales, and laugh at gilded butterflies.

Fairy tales are experienced by their hearers and readers, not as realistic, but as symbolic poetry.

I became a writer, a teller of tales, because otherwise I would have died... or worse.

Soils and national characters differ, but fairy tales are the same in plot and incidents, if not in treatment.

I like being scared, so I've always liked fairy tales because they're kind of creepy.

Fairy Tales always have a happy ending.' That depends... on whether you are Rumpelstiltskin or the Queen.

I'm a great believer in fairy tales. I think it is important to have something you can lose yourself in.

Fairy tales only happen in movies." -George Melies from The Invention of Hugo Cabret

I had to grow up fast because we know it's not all fairy tales out there; it's full of rubbish.

Spring blossoms are fairy tales, autumn leaves are tragic dramas.

If you want to tell grown-up fairy tales, you have to look for the dark side.

On that other novels followed: but I still wrote fairy tales and dreamy poems of another world.

I can tell you all kinds of moral tales, but fashion and reality are vaguely different.

It's not the tales of Stephen King that I've read, I need protection from the things in my head . . .

As a reader, I tend not to get too much from tales of unrelenting grimness.

For my teachers, unfortunately, certain things were, as they are for you, only tales of power

I liked Hans Christian Andersen because the tales were so dark and tragic.

I grew up with a lot of fairy tales. And they had an essence of darkness to them.

Until the lion learns to speak, the tales of hunting will be weak.

Butterflies and zebras And moonbeams and fairy tales That's all she ever thinks about Riding with the wind.

Is there anything more tedious than the often repeated tales of the old and forgetful?

Folk tales, which are usually written for children, become a bigger lesson for adults.

Be careful, boy. In some tales, the hero gets eaten by the monster after all .

As a story teller I have used characters, epic tales, poetry and rasa in my performances.

Folk tales are the most authentic way of understanding a region, its legend and people.

Truly songs and tales fall utterly short of the reality, O Smaug the Chiefest and greatest of Calamities.

I found a lot of fairy tales scary. They really didn't sit well with me.

Fairy tales and myths are forms of cultural storage for the natural history of life.

Overnight Success Happens Only in Fairy Tales, Trashy Novels, and Bad Movies.

Sharing tales of those we've lost is how we keep from really losing them.

Fairy tales lie just as much as statistics do, but sometimes you can find a grain of truth in them.

We read the weird tales in newspapers to crowd out the even weirder stuff inside us.

I've come to believe that what draws women to true crime tales is an instinctual understanding that this is the world they live in.

If ancient tales say true, nor wrong these holy men.

Stuff that's truly off-trail was what appealed to 'Weird Tales' editors.

Shark Tales: How I turned $1,000 into a Billion Dollar Business.

I love all that stuff like 'Tales From The Crypt,' 'Twlight Zone,' and 'Amazing Stories.'

Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.

Fairy tales are stories of triumph and transformation and true love, all things I fervently believe in.

Armchair warriors often fail - and we've been poisoned by these fairy tales

Even modern wars are fought like revenge tales from some petty grievance.

The tales of our exploits will survive as long as the human voice itself.

Dead women tell no tales. Sad men write them down.

It is my childhood dream to have a Christian-style wedding, just like the fairy tales.

There are these mythic unicorn-y tales of method acting, but Marlon [Brando] wanted to have a good time.

Every once in a while I'll say something...I dropped the F-bomb early on in my career. There was this lesbian couple and they looked super-hip. One of them looked at me and shook her head, like "Don't do that." I think she was doing it to say, "It doesn't work." She didn't say anything but it was this cautionary moment. I knew it didn't work. There are just so many other words to choose from.

It's no secret that many tales of tween stardom have had unhappy endings.

You stand beneath the arthritic boughs of any English oak, and you survey a thousand tales.

Examples draw where precept fails, and sermons are less read than tales.

You perceive, do you not, that our national fairy tales reflect the inmost desires of the Briton and the Gaul?