Tale

Famous quotes containing the word tale:

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

“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)

“My conscience hath a thousand several tongues,
And every tongue brings in a several tale,
And every tale condemns me for a villain.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)