Tale Quotes

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.

Sleepy Hollow had a lot of action in it, even though it was a fairy-tale movie.

Every fairy tale offers the potential to surpass present limits, so in a sense the fairy tale offers you freedoms that reality denies.

I never grew up reading or fantasizing about fairy tales. I was always too busy, like, outside being a kid.

She felt as if she had strayed into a fairy tale, as full of peril as of wonder, a place where anything could happen.

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.

You see the fairy tale - four minutes of glory at the Olympics. I thought my life would be cake after that.

The whole world had changed. Only the fairy tales remained the same. "And they lived happily ever after.

A man is just a woman's strategy for making other women.

we lived in the gaps between the stories

That is what you have to do before you kill, I thought. You have to create an it, where none was before.

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.

We haven't yet got eyes that can gaze into all the splendour that God has created, but we shall get them one day; and that will be the finest fairy tale of all, for we shall be in it ourselves.

Two forces create eternity - a fairy tale and a dream from the fairy tale.

Fairy tales only happen in movies." -George Melies from The Invention of Hugo Cabret

Life isn't a fairy tale, and happy endings are few and far between

I do not know the meaning of my sadness; there is an old fairy tale that I cannot get out of my mind.

From sentence to sentence, in fairy tales there is no reality that is subordinated to any other. Just as, outside the pages there is no reality.

Conservatives used to believe in confronting hard truths, not succumbing to comforting fairy tales. Some still do.

No, In fairy tales When to the ill-starred Prince the lady says 'I love you!' all his ugliness fades fast But I remain the same, up to the last!

Everything that I have told you is, of course, a fairy tale. Life is magical, after all. Nothing is safe and everything changes.

Fairy tales have a hidden power, and their appeal never ends. They're the best way to get messages across.

Sure, I love fairy tales.

Idle man, chases after fairy tales.

I don't think anything is as magical as a fairy tale experience by a child.

This was not a fairy-tale castle and there was no such thing as a fairy-tale ending, but sometimes you could threaten to kick the handsome prince in the ham-and-eggs.

Once upon a time, fairy tales were AWESOME!

I've always had a keen sense of history. My father was an antiques dealer and he used to bring home boxes full of treasures, and each item always had a tale attached.

The sound of the pages turning was the sound of magic. The dry liquid feel of paper under fingertips was what magic felt like.

He was the most ordinary man in all the world, and yet in her memory he'd become luminous, like the prince in a fairy tale.

How could you do nothing to him, if you fought so hard?” she asked. “I’m lust and he’s wrath!” he yelled. “I’m a lover, he’s a fighter!” Virtue - A Fairy Tale

When I was 14 or 15, our teacher introduced us to Dickens' 'A Tale of Two Cities.' It was just for entertainment - we read it aloud - and all of a sudden it became a treasure.

In college, I became interested in folk tales and fairy tales. Gradually I became more and more interested in the underlying meaning of it all and the possibility of the reality of real fairies.

I'm romantically inclined. No human being on Earth is not attracted to other people. There is no fairy tale that they only have eyes for you. You just choose to act on it or not.

There were the fairy tales my father told to me at bedtime. All the standards. I thought my father invented wolves.

It just wasn't the fairy tale I had hoped for.

Make a fairy tale and go and live in it.

We're all just big kids. That's all we are. We are artistes. We grew up wanting to be part of the fantasy of the fairy tales and the stories.

As a self-respecting dude, I'd never believed in fairy tales, but in that moment, I did. I'd found my angel to live happily-ever-after with.

...which fairy-tale princess ever chose her maid over her prince?

A fairy tale is the kind of story in which one king goes to another king to borrow a cup of sugar

Dragons and bridges are very much something out of fairy tales and fantasy.

I don't believe in this fairy tale of staying together for ever. Ten years with somebody is enough. In ten years, you can give a lot of love.

I want to be the best mum and I want everything to be perfect - I want a fairy tale really.

I love fairy tales and feel very affected by them.

With their hands clasped like children in a fairy tale, she fell asleep beside him in the dark.

A cult hero? I don't think of myself as any kind of hero. I don't want to say it's a fairy tale, but two years ago if you would've told me I'd be in this position, I wouldn't believe it hardly.

Oh yeah. That's why. Like a fairy tale. I was marrying the Prince. I just happened to be in love with the pauper.