Tale

Famous quotes containing the word tale:

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

“Never trust the artist. Trust the tale. The proper function of the critic is to save the tale from the artist who created it.”
—D.H. (David Herbert)

“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)