Allegory Quotations

V is like a mythical situation. It's an allegory for what could happen. V has philosophies within it that actually warn against things like that happening.

An allegory is not meant to be taken literally. There is a great lack of comprehension on the part of some readers.

I dislike Allegory - the conscious and intentional allegory - yet any attempt to explain the purport of myth or fairytale must use allegorical language.

A priest is he who lives solely in the realm of the invisible, for whom all that is visible has only the truth of an allegory.

My father was a bank clerk. He was also a Utopian Socialist and he wrote a Utopian novel. It was a kind of allegory or fairy tale.

Nature seen from the point of view of common sense is commodity; from the point of view of reason it is an alphabet or allegory of divinity.

Everything for me becomes allegory

Nature is a word, an allegory, a mold, an embossing, if you will.

I don't like allegory.

I dislike allegory wherever I smell it.

I cordially dislike allegory in all its manifestations...

A fairytale is not an allegory. There may be allegory in it, but it is not an allegory.

A man's life of any worth is a continual allegory.

There's something in the human personality which resents things that are clear, and conversely, something which is attracted to puzzles, enigmas, and allegories.

Allegories are, in the realm of thought, what ruins are in the realm of things.

All perishable is but an allegory.

Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story.