Fairy Tale Quotes
I was a great reader of fairy tales. I tried to read the entire fairy tale section of the library.
Deeper meaning resides in the fairy tales told to me in my childhood than in the truth that is taught by life.
The naive was only a part of my fairy tales; humour was the real salt in them.
Fairy tales lie just as much as statistics do, but sometimes you can find a grain of truth in them.
Just as with the man in the fairy tale who turned whatever he touched into gold, with me everything is turned into newspaper clamor.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The minute that you bring a unicorn into a story, you know that it's a fairy tale or a fable, because unicorns don't exist as animals. They exist as fantasy creatures.
And Death spoke to them —’” “Sorry,” interjected Harry, “but Death spoke to them?” “It’s a fairy tale, Harry!” “Right, sorry. Go on.
Nature is a book, a letter, a fairy tale (in the philosophical sense) or whatever you want to call it.
In the fairy tale the painting represents the here and now. The book is actually divided into five sections, through which the key character, the muse, leads us.
I took lots of photographs and had planned to write a treatise on how it worked, but I quickly got bored with that idea and wrote a scientific fairy tale instead.
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!
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.
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.
Our tree became the talking tree of the fairy tale; legends and stories nestled like birds in its branches.
In Grimm's fairy tales, you kiss a frog and in two seconds, it becomes a prince. That is a fairy tale. In evolution, you kiss a frog and in two million years, it becomes a prince.
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.
She felt as if she had strayed into a fairy tale, as full of peril as of wonder, a place where anything could happen.
The whole world had changed. Only the fairy tales remained the same. "And they lived happily ever after.
I never grew up reading or fantasizing about fairy tales. I was always too busy, like, outside being a kid.
Every fairy tale offers the potential to surpass present limits, so in a sense the fairy tale offers you freedoms that reality denies.
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.