Top Fable Quotes
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.
Alfred de Vigny
All cartoon characters and fables must be exaggeration, caricatures. It is the very nature of fantasy and fable.
Walt Disney
It is a myth, not a mandate, a fable not a logic, and symbol rather than a reason by which men are moved.
Irwin Edman
Did universal charity prevail, earth would be a heaven, and hell a fable.
Charles Caleb Colton
Whosoever counts these Lays as fable, may be assured that I am not of his mind.
Marie de France
Jeanette Winterson 
Joseph Conrad 
Irwin Edman 
Marie de France 
Walt Disney 
Napoleon Bonaparte All Fable Quotes
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.
Alfred de Vigny 
56% of people like this quote
All cartoon characters and fables must be exaggeration, caricatures. It is the very nature of fantasy and fable.
Walt Disney
54% of people like this quote
It is a myth, not a mandate, a fable not a logic, and symbol rather than a reason by which men are moved.
Irwin Edman
53% of people like this quote
Did universal charity prevail, earth would be a heaven, and hell a fable.
Charles Caleb Colton
52% of people like this quote
Whosoever counts these Lays as fable, may be assured that I am not of his mind.
Marie de France
50% of people like this quote
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.
Joseph Conrad
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Fable is more historical than fact, because fact tells us about one man and fable tells us about a million men.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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I wanted to write a new fable and see how many rules you could break.
Jeanette Winterson
44% of people like this quote