Tale

Famous quotes containing the word tale:

“The teller of a mirthful tale has latitude allowed him. We are content with less than absolute truth.”
—Charles Lamb (1775–1834)

“I tell the tale that I heard told.
Mithridates, he died old.”
—A.E. (Alfred Edward)

“The monument of death will outlast the memory of the dead. The Pyramids do not tell the tale which was confided to them; the living fact commemorates itself.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)