
“Tell me a story of deep delight.”
The Works of Publius Virgilius Maro (2nd ed. 1654), Virgil's Æneis
“Tell me a story of deep delight.”
“When you hide another story in a story, that’s the story I am telling the children.”
Quoted in an interview, "Sendak on Sendak," Rosenbach Museum & Library, Philadelphia (2007/2008)
“It is futile to spend time telling stories about the fleetness of each day.”
“The Day,” p. 57
The Creator (2000), Sequence: “The Whisper of Eternity”
“Whoever survives a test, whatever it may be, must tell the story. That is his duty.”
“You may do this, I tell you, it is permitted. Begin again the story of your life.”
Source: The Lives of the Heart
“If an idiot were to tell you the same story every day for a year, you would end by believing it.”
Edmund Burke, as quoted in Lacon in Council (1865) by John Frederick Boyes, p. 124
Misattributed