Fairy Quotes
When I went back to England after a year away, the country seemed stuck, dozing in a fairy tale, stifled by the weight of tradition.
I said that I’m a fairy… and I prefer to dance and fly with the butterfly but they made me talk and walk - and I hate walking and talking.
We almost need another word for fairy, that's the thing. Once people get to see what fairies' real power is, then they understand.
I also like the whole idea of fairy tales and folk tales being a woman's domain, considered a lesser domain at the time they were told.
When I used to read fairy-tales, I fancied that kind of thing never happened, and now here I am in the middle of one!
There was a place in childhood that I remember well, And there a voice of sweetest tone bright fairy tales did tell.
The more one knows fairy tales the less fantastical they appear; they can be vehicles of the grimmest realism, expressing hope against all the odds with gritted teeth.
In a utilitarian age, of all other times, it is a matter of grave importance that fairy tales should be respected.
I began to believe the fairy tales: You know, how we're all out there looking for our magical missing half.
Every child can remember laying his head in the grass, staring into the infinitesimal forest and seeing it grow populous with fairy armies.
The longing of my heart is a fairy portrait of myself: I want to be pretty; I want to eliminate facts and fill up the gap with charms.
We sometimes received - and I would read - 200 manuscripts a week. Some of them were wonderful, some were terrible; most were mediocre. It was like the gifts of the good and bad fairies.
In kindergarten that used to be my job, to tell them fairytales. I liked Hans Christian Andersen, and the Grimm fairy tales, all the classic fairy tales.
I know my hair is out of the '60's, my clothes are '50's and the shoes I wear are from the '40's. But I like looking like I came out of a fairy tale.
As a child, my mother told me lots of fairy stories, many her own invention. She, too, tended to reverse the norm.
A drop of poison on that gathering snow. That moment in the fairy tale when we know what just happened but the princess doesn’t.
The fairy tale is in a perpetual state of becoming and alteration. To keep to one version or one translation alone is to put robin redbreast in a cage.
Chicago is partly a fairy tale because it's inside one person's head, so that part of it's made up and the rest of it is reality.
I am agnostic only to the extent that I am agnostic about fairies at the bottom of the garden
Our tree became the talking tree of the fairy tale; legends and stories nestled like birds in its branches.
Just as with the man in the fairy tale who turned whatever he touched into gold, with me everything is turned into newspaper clamor.
You may scoff at the Tooth Fairy if you like. But the Tooth Fairy's approach has gotten more politicians elected than any economist's analysis.
He is only rich who owns the day. There is no king, rich man, fairy, or demon who possesses such power as that.
If you wish for something hard enough, the fairy tales teach us, you can get it in the end. But it's hardly ever the way you thought it would be, and the endings aren't always happy ones.
If you want to make your children brilliant, tell them fairy tales. If you want to make them more brilliant, tell them more fairy tales.
In fairy tales the bad guy is very easy to spot. The bad guy is always wearing a black cape so you always know who he is.
You and I who still enjoy fairy tales have less reason to wish actual childhood back. We have kept its pleasures and added some grown-up ones as well.
The dances ended, all the fairy train For pinks and daisies search'd the flow'ry plain.