tale quotes

Ningue  m no cais tem um nome so  .Todos te"  m tambe  m um apelido ou abreviam o nome, ou o aumentam, ou lhe acrescentam qualquer coisa que recorde uma histo  ria, uma luta, um amor. No one onthe dockshasjust onename.Everybody has a nickname too, or the name is shortened, or lengthened, or something is added that recalls a tale, a fight, a woman.

-Jorge Amado
  Mar morto (Sea of Death,1984),'Iemanja ' .

Notale everhappened intheway wetell it.Butthemoral is always correct.

- Donald Barthelme
  The Dead Father, ch.6.

And is it true? And is it true, This most tremendous tale of all, Seen in a stained-glass window's hue, A Baby in an ox's stall? The Maker of the stars and sea Become a Child on earth for me?

- SirJohn Betjeman
  A Few Late Chrysanthemums,'Christmas'.

Some kind of moral discovery should be the object of every tale.

- Sir William Neil pseudonym Cassandra Connor
Under Western Eyes, prologue.

A tale should be judicious, clear, succinct; The language plain, and incidents well linked; Tell not as new what ev'ry body knows, And new or old, still hasten to a close.

-William Cowper
  Poems,'Conversation', l.235^8.

Nobody has any conscience about adding to the improbabilities of a marvelous tale.

- Nathaniel Hawthorne
  The Marble Faun, ch.4.

I tell the tale that I heard told. Mithridates, he died old.

- A(lfred) E(dward) Housman
  A Shropshire Lad, no.62.

History is a tale of efforts that failed†aspirations that weren't realized, or wishes that were fulfilled and then turned out to be different from what one expected.

- HenryAlfred Kissinger
  In the NewYork Times,13 Oct.

Never trust the artist. Trust the tale.

- D(avid) H(erbert) Lawrence
  Studies in Classic  American Literature, ch.1.

A touch of science, even bogus science, gives an edgeto the superstitious tale.

- Sir V(ictor) S(awdon) Pritchett
  The Living Novel,'An Irish Ghost'.

Had we lived, I should have had a tale to tell of the hardihood, endurance, and courage of my companions which would have stirred the heart of every Englishman. Theserough notes andourdead bodiesmusttell thetale.

- Robert Falcon Scott
  Message to the public. Quoted in TheTimes,11 Feb1913.

Never mind my grace, lassie; just speak out a plain tale, and show you have a Scotch tongue in your head.

- Sir Walter Scott
  The Duke of Argyle toJeanie Deans.The Heart of Midlothian, ch.35.

With a tale forsooth he cometh unto you, with a tale which holdeth children from play, and old men from the chimney corner.

- Sir Philip Sidney
  Of the poet.The Defence of Poetry.

  The maid (and thereby hangs a tale) For such a maid no Whitson-ale Could ever yet produce: No grape that's kindly ripe, could be So round, so plump, so soft as she, Nor half so full of juice.

- SirJohn Suckling
  'Ballad: Upon aWedding'.

Arma virumque cano,Troiae qui primus ab oris Italiam fato profugus Laviniaque venit Litora. Thisis a tale of arms and of a man.Fated to be an exile, he wasthe first tosail fromtheland of Troyand reach Italy, at its Lavinian shore.

-Virgil full name Publius Vergilius Maro
Aeneid, opening lines (translated byW F Jackson Knight).

A mere tale of a tub, my words are idle.

-John Webster
  TheWhite Devil, act 2, sc.1.

But there's a tree, of many, one, A single field which I have looked upon, Both of them speak of something that isgone: The pansyat my feet Doth the same tale repeat: Whither is fled the visionary gleam? Where is it now, the glory and the dream?

-William Wordsworth
c.1802^1803  'Ode. Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood', stanza 4 (published1807).