Charlotte Bronte Quotes

Bigamy is having one husband too many. Monogamy is the same.

I think that everyone should get married at least once, so you can see what a silly, outdated institution it is.

'Star Wars' is more fairy tale than true science fiction.

I don't believe in storks. I know they don't deliver babies; they deliver pickles.

Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.

Jack’s life had more to do with myth, legend, saga, and story than with political theory or political science.

So here is my story, may it bring Some smiles and a tear or so, It happened once upon a time, Far away, and long ago, Outside the night wind keens and wails, Come listen to me, the Teller of Tales!

A woman and a mouse, they carry a tale wherever they go.

I love stories, I love myths, I love fairytales, I love Kafka.

There's a quality of legend about freaks. Like a person in a fairy tale who stops you and demands that you answer a riddle.

Fairy tales since the beginning of recorded time, and perhaps earlier, have been “a means to conquer the terrors of mankind through metaphor.

At the centre of every fairy tale lay a truth that gave the story its power

And Death spoke to them —’” “Sorry,” interjected Harry, “but Death spoke to them?” “It’s a fairy tale, Harry!” “Right, sorry. Go on.

Strange to say what delight we married people have to see these poor fools decoyed into our condition.

I love storytelling. I love stories, and I love the way in which we connect through stories.

Well I'm the Prince and I'm sort of slaying a dragon - which is something I've never done before, obviously.

In grammar school they taught me that a frog turning into a prince was a fairy tale. In the university they taught me that a frog turning into a prince was a fact!

The two basic stories of all times are Cinderella and Jack the Giant Killer-the charm of women and the courage of men.

It’s so much more romantic to end a story up with a funeral than a wedding.

Old stories often turn out to be true.

If you read folklore and mythology, any kind of myths, any kind of tall tales, running is always associated with freedom and vitality and youthfulness and eternal vigor. It's only in our lifetime that running has become associated with fear and pain.

Myths are seldom simple, and never irresponsible.

Fiction is Truth's elder sister. Obviously. No one in the world knew what truth was till some one had told a story.

(I am) dealing not with the particular anecdote, but rather with the Spirit of Myth, which is generic to all myths at all times.

Maidens who stay maidens turn into saints. Old women become sorceresses. Tough jobs, both of these.