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A touch of science, even bogus science, gives an edgeto the superstitious tale.

—Pritchett, Sir V(ictor) S(awdon)

Had we lived, I should have had a tale to tell of the hardihood, endurance, and courage of my companions which would have stirred the heart of every Englishman. Theserough notes andourdead bodiesmusttell thetale.

—Scott, Robert Falcon

History is a tale of efforts that failed†aspirations that weren't realized, or wishes that were fulfilled and then turned out to be different from what one expected.

—Kissinger, HenryAlfred

Nobody has any conscience about adding to the improbabilities of a marvelous tale.

—Hawthorne, Nathaniel

A mere tale of a tub, my words are idle.

—Webster,John

Some kind of moral discovery should be the object of every tale.

—Connor, Sir William Neil pseudonym Cassandra

And is it true? And is it true, This most tremendous tale of all, Seen in a stained-glass window's hue, A Baby in an ox's stall? The Maker of the stars and sea Become a Child on earth for me?

—Betjeman, SirJohn

Notale everhappened intheway wetell it.Butthemoral is always correct.

—Barthelme, Donald

Ningue¤  m no cais tem um nome so¤  .Todos te"  m tambe¤  m um apelido ou abreviam o nome, ou o aumentam, ou lhe acrescentam qualquer coisa que recorde uma histo¤  ria, uma luta, um amor. No one onthe dockshasjust onename.Everybody has a nickname too, or the name is shortened, or lengthened, or something is added that recalls a tale, a fight, a woman.

—Amado,Jorge

But there's a tree, of many, one, A single field which I have looked upon, Both of them speak of something that isgone: The pansyat my feet Doth the same tale repeat: Whither is fled the visionary gleam? Where is it now, the glory and the dream?

—Wordsworth,William

Never mind my grace, lassie; just speak out a plain tale, and show you have a Scotch tongue in your head.

—Scott, Sir Walter

Arma virumque cano,Troiae qui primus ab oris Italiam fato profugus Laviniaque venit Litora. Thisis a tale of arms and of a man.Fated to be an exile, he wasthe first tosail fromtheland of Troyand reach Italy, at its Lavinian shore.

—Virgil full name Publius Vergilius Maro

A tale should be judicious, clear, succinct; The language plain, and incidents well linked; Tell not as new what ev'ry body knows, And new or old, still hasten to a close.

—Cowper,William

I tell the tale that I heard told. Mithridates, he died old.

—Housman, A(lfred) E(dward)

  The maid (and thereby hangs a tale) For such a maid no Whitson-ale Could ever yet produce: No grape that's kindly ripe, could be So round, so plump, so soft as she, Nor half so full of juice.

—Suckling, SirJohn

Never trust the artist. Trust the tale.

—Lawrence, D(avid) H(erbert)

With a tale forsooth he cometh unto you, with a tale which holdeth children from play, and old men from the chimney corner.

—Sidney, Sir Philip