Quotes Tagged With :allegory

If a writer of prose knows enough about what he is writing about he may omit things that he knows and....

I cordially dislike allegory in all its manifestations, and always have done so since I grew old and....

I thought I saw how stories of this kind could steal past a certain inhibition which had paralysed much....

In order to get over the ethical difficulties presented by the naive naturalism of many parts of those....

...Tolstoy said, happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story - then what does that make us?...

Long before there was ever a King James Version of our Bible, there was a gospel truth...and long before....

On this material plane, each living being is like a street lantern lamp with a dirty lampshade.The inside....

He was no god, just an artist; and when an artist is a man, he needs a woman to create like a god.

A man inherited a field in which was an accumulation of old stone, part of an older hall. Of the old....

It's terrible to have to fear that your powers will activate at any given moment. Especially when you....