Tale

Famous quotes containing the word tale:

“Having achieved and accomplished love ... man ... has become himself, his tale is told.”
—D.H. (David Herbert)

“In the tale proper—where there is no space for development of character or for great profusion and variety of incident—mere construction is, of course, far more imperatively demanded than in the novel.”
—Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849)

“With a tale, forsooth, he cometh unto you; with a tale which holdeth children from play, and old men from the chimney corner.”
—Sir Philip Sidney (1554–1586)