64 Quotes About Fables

As we are poetical in our natures, so we delight in fable.

National literature begins with fables and ends with novels.

Human beings have always told their histories and truths through parable and fable. We are inveterate storytellers.

Oh this is reality, not a fable, that the Lord Jesus Christ is our friend. And we should not be satisfied until we are brought to this.

Willmott has very tersely said that embellished truths are the illuminated alphabet of larger children.

One good turn deserves another.

India, the new myth--a collective fiction in which anything was possible, a fable rivalled only by the two other mighty fantasies: money and God.

Better by far to embrace the hard truth than a reassuring fable. If we crave some cosmic purpose, then let us find ourselves a worthy goal.

The evil arising from mental improvement can be corrected only by a still further progress in that very improvement. Either morality is a fable, or the more enlightened we are, the more attached to it we become.