Tale Quotes

The difference between a fairy tale and a sea tale? A fairy tale starts with "Once upon a time". A sea tale starts with " This ain't no $hit"!

I always felt and still feel that fairy tales have an emotional truth that is so deep that there are few things that really rival them

The dead have need of fairy tales too.

Fairy tales lie just as much as statistics do, but sometimes you can find a grain of truth in them.

Even nightingales can’t be fed on fairy tales.

All the ancient classic fairy tales have always been scary and dark.

The naive was only a part of my fairy tales; humour was the real salt in them.

It is not children only that one feeds with fairy tales.

There is the great lesson of 'Beauty and the Beast,' that a thing must be loved before it is lovable.

Religions are the great fairy tales of conscience.

Deeper meaning resides in the fairy tales told to me in my childhood than in the truth that is taught by life.

Yes, hell exists. It is not a fairy tale. One indeed burns there. This hell is not at the end of life. It is here. At the beginning. Hell is what the infant must experience before he gets to us.

Some fairy tales end with the girl marrying the prince... some start there.

I was a great reader of fairy tales. I tried to read the entire fairy tale section of the library.

What so tedious as a twice-told tale?

The fairy tale always takes place in worlds that are between, unidentifiable.

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.

Maybe it's a fairy tale, but I believe in happily ever after.

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.

Maybe my fairy tale has a different ending than I dreamed it would. But that's OK.

Only a fairy tale calls a constant condition 'happiness'.

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 always wanted the fairy tale, but now I want someone who is a great partner.

I don't want to look at something that determines me so completely.

Philosophy is the opposite of fairy tales

Waste not want not. I am not being wasted. Why do I want?

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.

Just as with the man in the fairy tale who turned whatever he touched into gold, with me everything is turned into newspaper clamor.

These are characters in a fairy tale for grown-ups. Wouldn't it be lovely? Yes.

Remember all fairy tales end at some point.

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.

I don't believe in fairy tales, but I believe in you and me

Well, Company of Wolves was about that literally, about fairy tales.

Why can't love be a fairy tale?

And Death spoke to them —’” “Sorry,” interjected Harry, “but Death spoke to them?” “It’s a fairy tale, Harry!” “Right, sorry. Go on.

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.

We cling to our fairy tales until the price for believing in them becomes too high.

I don't know what to think about magic and fairy tales.

American cinema is international like the fairy tales were international.

I want to talk about political and economic fairy tales.

Nature is a book, a letter, a fairy tale (in the philosophical sense) or whatever you want to call it.

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.

I'll be left writing picture books and fairy tales

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.

Drive him fast to his tomb. This, from Jacques.

Then tell Wind and Fire where to stop," returned madame; "but don't tell me.

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.

Gifts fall from heaven only in fairy tales.

Our tree became the talking tree of the fairy tale; legends and stories nestled like birds in its branches.