“It is the tale, not he who tells it.”

“The tales we tell ourselves about ourselves makes us who we are.”

“Who so shall telle a tale after a man,
He moste reherse, as neighe as ever he can,
Everich word, if it be in his charge,
All speke he never so rudely and so large;
Or elles he moste tellen his tale untrewe,
Or feinen thinges, or finden wordes newe.”

“Masters, I have to tell a tale of woe,
A tale of folly and of wasted life”

“There are ghosts and there is love,
And both are present here,
To those who listen, this tale will tell
The truth of love and if it's near.”

“How easy it is to tell tales!”

“I shudder as I tell the tale.”
Horresco referens.

“I quail,
E'en now, at telling of the tale.”

“I'm fascinated with the stories that we tell. Real histories become fantasies and fairy tales, morality tales and fables.”

“This suffering will yield us yet
A pleasant tale to tell.”