Top 1039 Cautionary Tales Quotes & Sayings - Page 5

As a child, I loved fairy tales because the story, the what-comes-next, is paramount. As an adult, I'm fascinated by their logic and illogic.

Ah, now, don't cry over lost years and forgetfulness. The tales tell what they can. The rest is for us to learn.

Romance, in its earliest surviving form, was called ‘erotika pathemata’ by the Greeks - tales of erotic suffering.

All of my tales are based on the fundamental premise that common human laws and emotions have no validity or significance in the cosmos-at-large.

We're all just big kids. That's all we are. We are artistes. We grew up wanting to be part of the fantasy of the fairy tales and the stories.

I left the fairy tales lying on the floor of the nursery, and I have not found any books so sensible since.

To be honest, Peter Pan was one of those fairy tales that I sort of related to, and I think that's the case with a lot of kids.

I like the fact that kids are willing to be imaginative and go along with me when I'm telling strange tales.

The whole world had changed. Only the fairy tales remained the same. "And they lived happily ever after.

I think writers from both East and West have long been fascinated by the ancient tales and the opportunity to reinterpret them.

I began to believe the fairy tales: You know, how we're all out there looking for our magical missing half.

I like to make people happy, and with fairy tales, I can say anything I want to, but in an agreeable way.

I always wanted to be on 'Sesame Street,' that kind of a thing, puppets and fun and original songs and fairy tales.

Like a grindhouse version of Grimm's Fairy Tales, Wallwork's fiction is smart, innovative, and a hell of a lot of fun.

It's the problem with fairy tales. From far away, they seem so perfect. But up close, they're just as complicated as real life.

There was a place in childhood that I remember well, And there a voice of sweetest tone bright fairy tales did tell.

Indexing' is a police procedural about protecting the world from memetic incursions - which is to say, fairy tales.

I used to tell strange, wild, improbable tales akin to ghost stories, and discovered a taste for spinning yarns.

Once I learned, I went online and ordered every romance novel I could find. They're fairy tales for grown-ups.

The past history of human belief is a cautionary tale. We have killed thousands of our fellow human beings because we believed they had signed a contract with the devil, and had become witches. We still kill more than a thousand people each year for witchcraft. In my view, there is only one hope for humankind to emerge from what Carl Sagan called "the demon-haunted world" of our past. That hope is science.

Conservatives used to believe in confronting hard truths, not succumbing to comforting fairy tales. Some still do.

It is not the first duty of the novelist to provide blueprints for insurrection, or uplifting tales of successful resistance for the benefit of the opposition. The naming of what is there is what is important.

Poetry is one of the essential structures of civilization - carrying myth, ritual, 'tales of the tribe' and the essence of language.

Look at Jane Austen. Her characters derive in a reasonably straight line from fairy tales.

We cling to our fairy tales until the price for believing in them becomes too high.

I acquired a hunger for fairy tales in the dark days of blackout and blitz in the Second World War.

Fairy tales have a hidden power, and their appeal never ends. They're the best way to get messages across.

I have always been fascinated by the supernatural elements in stories, whether fairy tales, myths, film or literature.

It is said the boundless steppes of Asia gave flight to tales of heroes and heroines because the conditions there are so harsh.

I never saw fairy tales as an escape or a cop-out... On the contrary, speaking for myself, it is the way to understand reality.

Here about the beach I wandered, nourishing a youth sublime With the fairy tales of science, and the long result of Time.

I have no illusions concerning the precarious status of my tales and do not expect to become a serious competitor of my favorite weird authors.

The tales of Elfland do not stand or fall on their actuality but on their truthfulness, their speaking to the human condition, the longings we all have for the Faerie Other.

I'm a storyteller who uses all of the beauty and power of cinema to tell tales of human struggles for positive social change.

I think, reading the Grimm's fairy tales, they all have some sort of moral component to them, teaching you a lesson.

All the tales of miracles, with which the Old and New Testament are filled, are fit only for impostors to preach and fools to believe.

Years ago, fairy tales all began with Once upon a time... now we know they all begin with, If I am elected.

'For Those Who Can Tell No Tales' is a story of memory and the energy of places that remain full of drama, pain, and denial.

Before you enter the forest, you must leave your mind outside, because in the land of fairy tales there is no need for it!

Deeper meaning resides in the fairy tales told to me in my childhood than in the truth that is taught by life.

Fairy tales have always got to have something a bit scary for children - as long as you make them laugh as well.

Pay heed to the tales of old wives. It may well be that they alone keep in memory what it was once needful for the wise to know.

Fairy tales read before bed tend to make me dream. They're all quite violent stories, as are my dreams.

Unfortunately, unless the job description included a translation of the prologue of The Canterbury Tales, I was dreadfully under-qualified.

A child gets moral notions from the fairy-tales he delights in, as do his elders from tale and verse.

In a utilitarian age, of all other times, it is a matter of grave importance that fairy tales should be respected.

I am very much interested in fairy tales. I guess that most of the films I like to do have this kind of aspect.

It's really easy, once somebody passes away, for the tales about them to become taller, the good ones and the bad ones.

I think people should read fairy tales, because we're hungry for a mythology that will speak to our fears.

These days, tales of what Facebook did with its users during the singularity are commonly used to scare naughty children in Wales.

I will talk to people who say they loved 'Tales of the City' or 'Far and Away' or 'Love and Human Remains' or 'Barcelona.'

Who better than an Irishman can understand the Indians, while still being stirred by tales of the US cavalry?

I was born and raised in Ohio. During my childhood, I spent most of my time drawing and reading fairy tales and myths.

Though the Grimms kept about 100 of the tales from the first edition, they changed them a good deal.

Technically a memoir, 'The Woman Warrior' becomes almost magical through its inclusion of folk tales, dreams, and revisions.

Children are natural mythologists: they beg to be told tales, and love not only to invent but to enact falsehoods.

I am thrilled to get the chance to write comics - and to tell Forgotten Realms tales, to boot!

Never tell tales about a woman. No matter how far away she is, shell always hear you.

When I used to read fairy-tales, I fancied that kind of thing never happened, and now here I am in the middle of one!

Vampires have become tragic or romantic figures. Vampire are largely seduction tales. They're no longer the scary creature in the dark.