Monseigneur A Tale Quotes

IV. Congratulatory V. The Jackal VI. Hundreds of People VII. Monseigneur in Town VIII. Monseigneur in the Country ~ Charles Dickens

VI. Hundreds of People VII. Monseigneur in Town VIII. Monseigneur in the Country IX. The Gorgon's Head X. Two Promises XI. A ~ Charles Dickens

Paint my sky red,
For I am fed up with the blues. ~ Shweta Tale

The difference between a fairy tale and a sea tale? A fairy tale starts with "Once upon a time". A sea tale starts with " This ain't no $hit"! ~ Edith Widder

A beautiful tale is pleasantly interesting, but a tale re-told is not only sweeter but lacks the bitter truth. ~ Uzoma Nnadi

The idea of my life as a fairy tale is itself a fairy tale, ~ Grace Kelly

Yes. It took four men, all four ablaze with gorgeous decoration, and the Chief of them unable to exist with fewer than two gold watches in his pocket, emulative of the noble and chaste fashion set by Monseigneur, to conduct the happy chocolate to Monseigneur's lips. One lacquey carried the chocolate-pot into the sacred presence; a second, milled and frothed the chocolate with the little instrument he bore for that function; a third, presented the favoured napkin; a fourth (he of the two gold watches), poured the chocolate out. It was impossible for Monseigneur to dispense with one of these attendants on the chocolate and hold his high place under the admiring Heavens. Deep would have been the blot upon his escutcheon if his chocolate had been ignobly waited on by only three men; he must have died of two. ~ Charles Dickens

CHAPTER V - MONSEIGNEUR BIENVENU MADE HIS CASSOCKS LAST TOO LONG ~ Victor Hugo

He, "how many beds do you think this hall alone would hold?" "Monseigneur's dining-room?" exclaimed ~ Victor Hugo

The Ramayana has never been a tale of Ram's life. It is a tale of how Ram lived for others. By retelling his tale, storytellers hope to inspire themselves and others to live as Ram did. ~ Devdutt Pattanaik

Every fairy tale offers the potential to surpass present limits, so in a sense the fairy tale offers you freedoms that reality denies. ~ Azar Nafisi

Town VIII. Monseigneur in the Country IX. The Gorgon's Head ~ Charles Dickens

You believe in love, just as a child believes in Santa Claus or a fairy tale."
"What is love then, if not a fairy tale meant for adults? ~ Abhaidev

The implication of this particular tale is: Trust strangers. Believe in magic. ~ Michael Cunningham

I am not the wicked stepmother in this fairy's tale. ~ Barry Webster

The fireplace is warm nook Penina Mezei's house in fairy tale in which the "fairy-tale-in Jukebox" can listen to while in the "fairy library" books are fairy tales and books of fairy tales, but also some fairy-tale subject. ~ Penina Mezei

The Snow Leopard's Tale is a mystical pilgrimage into that wild country where animal passion and the human heart begin to walk the very same trail. Whether one has been in the business of adventuring, as Thomas McIntyre has, or has enjoyed such adventures from the safety of one's armchair, The Snow Leopard's Tale is a haunting, beautifully written, and thought-provoking tale, as all great parables are. ~ Ted Kerasote

Your love story was no fairy tale. More like a witch tale. Wicked and real and painful. ~ L.J. Shen

To hunt for symbols in a fairy tale is absolutely fatal. ~ W. H. Auden

There are men who dig for gold; [Monseigneur Bienvenu] dug for compassion. ~ Victor Hugo

The delight we experience when we allow ourselves to respond to a fairy tale, the enchantment we feel, comes not from the psychological meaning of the tale (although this contributes to it) but from its literary qualities-the tale itself as a work of art, ~ Bruno Bettelheim

Every constellation's like its own fairy tale. ~ Lauren Miller

You have suspicions, nevertheless?" "Yes, monseigneur; but these suspicions appeared to be disagreeable to Monsieur the Commissary, and I no longer have them. ~ Alexandre Dumas

It was as if I had been dropped into the first chapter of a fairy tale - but we all know how fairy tales go. ~ Kathy Hatfield

It is a strange tale and utterly Barsoomian. ~ Edgar Rice Burroughs

Why can't love be a fairy tale? ~ Amy Davis

Thy loving smile will surely hail
The love-gift of a fairy tale. ~ Lewis Carroll

These are characters in a fairy tale for grown-ups. Wouldn't it be lovely? Yes. ~ Diane Arbus

Reality withing the depths of night has no more substance than the lucid dream. ~ The Tale Of Genji

The old tale of Sleeping Beauty might end happily in French or English, but he was in Russia, and only a fool would want to live through the Russian version of any fairy tale. ~ Orson Scott Card

Chess is a fairy tale of 1001 blunders. ~ Savielly Tartakower

Life has no fairy-tale endings. But it has fairy tale moments. ~ Tracy Winegar

The biggest fairy tale is that justice works because it doesn't. ~ Lauren Beukes

And that was our beginning. It's not a thrilling tale of adventure or the kind of fairy-tale romance portrayed in movies, but it felt like divine intervention. ~ Nicholas Sparks

When the moon is at its best and the sun at its worst, you have a hard time finding where's the nest and where's the bird! ~ Shweta Tale

To destroy abuses is not enough; Habits must also be changed. The windmill has gone, but the wind is still there."
~old man G--- to Monseigneur Bienvenu Myriel ~ Victor Hugo

Give Mozart a fairy tale and he creates without effort an immortal masterpiece. ~ Camille Saint-Saens

I never swear, Monseigneur. I say Yes or No, and as I am a gentleman, I keep my word. ~ Alexandre Dumas

It is not the broken heart that kills, but broken pride, monseigneur. ~ Gilbert Parker

From a tale one expects a bit of wildness, of exaggeration and dramatic effect. The tale has no inherent concern with decorum, balance or harmony ... A tale may not display a great deal of structural, psychological, or narrative sophistication, though it might possess all three, but it seldom takes its eye off its primary goal, the creation of a particular emotional state in its reader. Depending on the tale, that state could be wonder, amazement, shock, terror, anger, anxiety, melancholia, or the momentary frisson of horror. ~ Peter Straub

Make a fairy tale and go and live in it. ~ Annabel Tollman

Now it seemed unbelievable, the innocence of a girl in a fairy tale. ~ Janet Fitch

Child, you do not know me. You have created a mythical being in my likeness whom you have set up as a god. It is not I. Many times, infant, I have told you that I am no hero, but I think you have not believed me. I tell you now that I am no fit mate for you...My reputation is damaged beyond repair, child. I come from vicious stock, and I have brought no honor to the name I bear. To no women have I been faithful; behind me lies scandal upon sordid scandal...You have seen perhaps the best of me; you have not seen the worst'

'Ah, Monseigneur, you need not have told me this! I know--I have always known, and still I love you. I do not want a boy. I only want Monseigneur. ~ Georgette Heyer

Who am I kidding? This isn't a fairy tale. It's my life. ~ Zoe Cruz

Everyone wants the fairy tale, but don't forget there are dragons in those stories. ~ R. Queen

Actually everybody has a story, a fairy tale in their heart that they adhere to. ~ Phoebe Stone

Suppose that which is taking place here and now is not reality, but only a tale, a tale of some higher order that contains within it the tale of the machine: a reader might well wonder why you and your companions are shaped like spheres, inasmuch as that sphericality serves no purpose in the narration and would appear to be a wholly superfluous embellishment ... ~ Stanislaw Lem

Evolution is a fairy tale for grown-ups. ~ Duane Gish

Not everything has the ability to break you and if something does then it was something precious to you. ~ Shweta Tale

Who then," she continues, "tells a finer tale than any of us? Silence does. And where does one read a deeper tale than upon the most perfectly printed page of the most precious book? Upon the blank page. When a royal and gallant pen, in the moment of its highest inspiration, has written down its tale with the rarest ink of all -- where, then, may one read a still deeper, sweeter, merrier and more cruel tale than that? Upon the blank page. ~ Isak Dinesen

Fresh ideas are easier to retain with fresh air. ~ Chris Colfer, A Tale Of Magic

I planned that Aintree Tale #1 would have a halo while the soon to be published Aintree Tale #2 in comparison would have red horns and a fork tail. ~ Susan Francis

It is a tale that you sing. As long as you believe it, it makes you powerful. ~ Kieron Gillen

A Shadow's Tale - I'm going to keep calling it A Shadow's Tale because fuck America for wanting to be different and special all the time. ~ Yahtzee Croshaw

Monseigneur, I have killed you! You are dead! You are dead!"
You display an unseemly joy," he remarked. "I had no notion you were so bloodthirsty. ~ Georgette Heyer

But the storytellers would never know that. Even if people had known the truth, they wouldn't have been interested in telling it. Flowers pouring from Windows like falling stars made a better tale. ~ Alwyn Hamilton

My, how certain we mortals can be ... of things even angels do not know. ~ Gene Edwards A Tale Of Three Kings

I love fairy tale retellings and mash-ups. ~ Sarah J. Maas

Only a fairy tale calls a constant condition 'happiness'. ~ Jacob Burckhardt

You see the magic in a fairy tale, you can face the future ~ Danielle Steel

I am the serpent that devours her own tail--her own tale. If you tell a tale well enough, it becomes a path to follow. I shed my skin and begin again. ~ Mary Sharratt

T[he rules of writing] require that the episodes in a tale shall be necessary parts of the tale, and shall help to develop it. ~ Mark Twain

When you look at Mark Zuckerberg and Snapchat and all these twentysomething billionaires, it's really kind of fascinating; a classic tale of the haves and have-nots. ~ Steven Bochco

I have had you in my life for so long, I want to know when the dream ends and the fairy-tale begins... ~ Virginia Alison

Fairy tale doesn't always have a happy ending. But still, it's a fairy tale.
So does first love. It might not be happy, but it doesn't have always to be sad. It's just love. ~ Dian Purnomo

This is a twisted, twisted tale. A tale of twisted love. ~ Ryohgo Narita

I'll be ready when you are, esclave. A life for a life. A tale for a tale. ~ Pepper Winters

But, the comfort was, that all the company at the grand hotel of Monseigneur were perfectly dressed. If the Day of Judgment had only been ascertained to be a dress day, everybody there would have been eternally correct. ~ Charles Dickens

Why didn't my father get to give Mom the fairy tale? Why do most people fail to give each other the fairy tale? ~ Matthew Quick

We often see a temper of the times connection, and it's just like a fairy tale. It's not true. ~ Cass Sunstein

Life to me is a bit of a (Brothers) Grimm fairy tale. ~ Alexander McQueen

While they were thus embarrassed, a large chest was brought and deposited in the presbytery for the Bishop, by two unknown horsemen, who departed on the instant. The chest was opened; it contained a cope of cloth of gold, a mitre ornamented with diamonds, an archbishop's cross, a magnificent crosier, - all the pontifical vestments which had been stolen a month previously from the treasury of Notre Dame d'Embrun. In the chest was a paper, on which these words were written, "From Cravatte to Monseigneur Bienvenu."
"Did not I say that things would come right of themselves?" said the Bishop. Then he added, with a smile, "To him who contents himself with the surplice of a curate, God sends the cope of an archbishop."
"Monseigneur," murmured the cure, throwing back his head with a smile. "God - -or the Devil."
The Bishop looked steadily at the cure, and repeated with authority, "God! ~ Victor Hugo

I do not know the meaning of my sadness; there is an old fairy tale that I cannot get out of my mind. ~ Heinrich Heine

To know what is right and to do it are two different things. ~ Chushingura, A Tale Of The Forty-Seven Ronin

Only with the Internet can a peasant I have never met hear my voice and I can learn what's on his mind. A fairy tale has come true. ~ Ai Weiwei

The Goldilocks Enigma is the idea that everything in the universe is just right for life, like the porridge in the fairy tale. ~ Paul Davies

Oh yeah. That's why. Like a fairy tale. I was marrying the Prince. I just happened to be in love with the pauper. ~ Amanda Hocking

A child gets moral notions from the fairy-tales he delights in, as do his elders from tale and verse. ~ Charlotte M. Mason

I think, a secret love is something none of your friends would understand. And it's like a fairy tale, but more serious. ~ Yunho

To me, a fairy tale seems to have become reality. ~ Nelly Sachs

You see, a truth parted with has its own way of becoming a tale. It is told so often that it stumbles in the telling, little bits flaking off, little bits sticking on, and the years accrete and they tend to warp the truth, press it into something it was not at the beginning---not a lie, but a tale. It's easier to see the truth when you disguise it. ~ Roshani Chokshi

As long as you keep one foot in the real world while the other foot's in a fairy tale, that fairy tale is going to seem kind of attainable. ~ Aaron Sorkin

Every affair is a fairy tale or a tragedy. ~ Cherie Priest

Now that I think about it, this might all have been inevitable. The reason we all ended up here, the reason I couldn't leave her alone...it all had to be a ridiculous fairy tale. ~ Jun Mochizuki

The Watch is a powerful tale, courageous both in concept and creation: an ancient tale made modern, passed through different narrators in extraordinary shape-shifting prose that makes this not just an important novel, but a remarkable read. ~ Aminatta Forna

For the others, it was still just a tale, like all the tales we told, night by night, tales comical and strange, tales heroic and awe-inspiring, the tales that formed the fabric of our spirits. ~ Juliet Marillier

And who among the company at Monseigneur's reception in that seventeen hundred and eightieth year of our Lord, could possibly doubt, that a system rooted in a frizzled hangman, powdered, gold-laced, pumped, and white-silk stockinged, would see the very stars out! ~ Charles Dickens

Everything you look at can become a fairy tale and you can get a story from everything you touch. ~ Hans Christian Andersen

The world is a fairy tale; we are its guardians. ~ Dejan Stojanovic

Monseigneur Bienvenu was simply a man who took note of the exterior of mysterious questions without scrutinizing them, and without troubling his own mind with them, and who cherished in his own soul a grave respect for darkness. ~ Victor Hugo

I'd imagine my wedding as a fairy tale ... huge, beautiful and white. ~ Paris Hilton

Man's lesson is another man's tale, but often, a man's tale can be another's lesson. ~ Cecelia Ahern

The peach siding created a gorgeous contrast to the stucco walls and the dark-brown roof tiles - a fairytale house in a fairytale suburban neighborhood. She rolled her eyes. Too bad life had been anything but. ~ Katherine McIntyre

Jack Vance's Lyonesse books are the greatest fairy tale of the twentieth century. ~ Jack Vance

Never trust the teller, trust the tale. The proper function of a critic is to save the tale from the artist who created it. ~ D.H. Lawrence

My heart beats more for a raw, average vulgar art, which doesn't live between sleepy fairy-tale moods and poetry but rather concedes a direct entrance to the fearful, commonplace, splendid and the average grotesque banality in life. ~ Max Beckmann

The whole thing becomes like this evil enchantment from a fairy tale, but you're made to believe the spell can never be broken. ~ Jess C. Scott

A bitter reality of truth
can be wisely told
in a sweet tale of lullaby. ~ Toba Beta

Don't Let Him Know is a rich, evocative and brilliantly told tale of family, of loyalties, and of love that must stay secret. Sandip Roy has broken new ground in this tale of the modern Indian family. A lovely read ~ Abraham Verghese

Does the Sower feed the tale
Or the tale feed the Sower? ~ Rachna Gilmore