Character Allegory Quotes & Sayings

Steiner's skin went grey at that, a tremble — T.J. McFadden

I don't condone anyone causing damage in my name, or doing anything malicious in support of my plight. There are more productive ways to help me. As a hacker myself, I never intentionally damaged anything. — Kevin Mitnick

A letter is an unannounced visit, the postman the agent of rude surprises. One ought to reserve an hour a week for receiving letters and afterwards take a bath. — Friedrich Nietzsche

The twenty-first chapter gives the novel the quality of genuine fiction, an art founded on the principle that human beings change. There is, in fact, not much point in writing a novel unless you can show the possibility of moral transformation, or an increase in wisdom, operating in your chief character or characters. Even trashy bestsellers show people changing. When a fictional work fails to show change, when it merely indicates that human character is set, stony, unregenerable, then you are out of the field of the novel and into that of the fable or the allegory. — Anthony Burgess

The loveliest, sweetest flower that bloomed in paradise, and the first that died, has rarely blossomed since on mortal soil. It is so frail, so delicate, a thing, it is gone if it but look upon itself; and she who ventures to esteem it hers proves by that single thought she has it not. — Elizabeth Fry

Listen To Then Follow The Whispers of Your Heart. — Steven Redhead

Each character is an allegory for every aspect of human existence. — Vanna Bonta

I'd rather pour myself into a world I love and understand than try to make something up out of nothing. — Rainbow Rowell

Let it go and be free to feel the joy of life. — Debasish Mridha

Oh, no, I'm not saying she isn't a nut
she is
but I've noticed before that sometimes someone like that behaves quite ordinarily with everybody, manages everything, you'd never think she was a nut, but there's just one person, with that person, she's out of control. It makes you wonder,' said Alice. — Doris Lessing

But the character of the music emphasized the tale as allegory
humorous, poignant, humane allegory
disclosing the metamorphosis of life itself, in which man moves from confident inexperience through the bitterness of experience, toward the rueful wisdom of self-knowledge. — Robertson Davies

We've got to start thinking of school as a lifelong process. That's the only way we'll keep abreast and be able to share in the wealth of the new "knowledge society." — Price Pritchett

I longed to know what it felt like to have one person eclipse everything bad in your life - be a place of pure joy. — Cara Lynn Shultz

Every sun casts a shadow, and genius's shadow is Resistance. — Steven Pressfield

Cable news is 24 hours long so you have to fill it up with something. No, the Muppets are not communist. And the character of Tex Richman is not an allegory for capitalism in any way. The character is called Tex Richman. It's a joke. Clearly he is a classic, old school bad guy. He's bad not because he works for an oil company but because he's evil. No, it's not a communist movie in any way. — James Bobin

Your limitation lies in your imagination. — Lailah Gifty Akita