Fable Quotes

All cartoon characters and fables must be exaggeration, caricatures. It is the very nature of fantasy and fable.

I wanted to write a new fable and see how many rules you could break.

Whosoever counts these Lays as fable, may be assured that I am not of his mind.

What is history but a fable agreed upon?

Did universal charity prevail, earth would be a heaven, and hell a fable.

From this, without doubt, sprang the fable. Man created it thus, because it was not given him to see more than himself and nature, which surrounds him; but he created it true with a truth all its own.

Fable is more historical than fact, because fact tells us about one man and fable tells us about a million men.

There are men here and there to whom the whole of life is like an after-dinner hour with a cigar; easy, pleasant, empty, perhaps enlivened by some fable of strife to be forgotten - before the end is told - even if there happens to be any end to it.

It is a myth, not a mandate, a fable not a logic, and symbol rather than a reason by which men are moved.