Tale Quotes

We no longer believe in fairy tales. But we will learn to believe in monsters

I'm reading Barnaby Rudge, one of the less well-known Dickens novels. I've been a life-long lover of Charles Dickens ever since I think A Tale of Two Cities was the first Dickens novel I read.

I am concerned with a certain way of looking at life, which was created in me by the fairy tales, but has since been meekly ratified by the mere facts.

This is a fairy tale with teeth and claws.

Jack Vance's Lyonesse books are the greatest fairy tale of the twentieth century.

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

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.

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.

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

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

Jed Perl writes precisely and ecstatically. Antoine' s Alphabet is a history and a fairy tale, a work of criticism, and a work of art.

If you want to tell grown-up fairy tales, you have to look for the dark side.

I wished that, for once, faery tales – real faery tales, not Disney fairy tales – would have a happy ending.

I'm so excited to see 'Horns' because it's so many different genres in one film. It's a sci-fi, it's a love story, it's a horror movie, it's a fairy tale.

I'm not writing fairy tales or object lessons.

Fairy tales dont tell you that dragons are real, but that they can be defeated!

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

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.

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

It inspired all sorts of whims and fancies that I ultimately wove into a fairy tale complete with muse, the earth, the moon, some famous inventors, a dog and a rabbit.

Marry Gentry Swallowing Darkness (Laurell K. Hamilton):Pick any fairy tale that’s based on older stories, and the heroine of the piece has a miserable, dangerous, nightmarish time of it.

The biggest fairy tale is that justice works because it doesn't.

Having a magical element in a realistic setting without explanation seems to me to be the hallmark of fairy tales, which present us with a kind of metaphorical look at some aspect of our lives.

I'm not sure if it's fair to call it a "fairy tale," but I really loved Mulan, the Disney film. It was my favorite. I guess it's not really a fairy tale, but you do get Eddie Murphy as a dragon.

I think the big thing is the fairy tale. It's taking old folk fairy tales and retelling them in modern day. I think it's just taking you out of everyday life, and everyone loves a good fairy tale.

In the fairy tale you mentioned last night, I would probably be the villain. But it's possible the villain would treat you far better than the prince would have.

I am very much interested in fairy tales. I guess that most of the films I like to do have this kind of aspect.

I'm very interested in talking about children in this moment where you are going to become a teenager, and I think it's very relevant to use a fairy tale to talk about that.

It could have been like a fairy tale. But fairy tales aren't real. Things don't work like that. There's a price for everything.

It was not a happy ending of the sort in fairy tales, but it was the only one we had.

My favorite movie is The Wizard of Oz. I love the fairy tale of it. And Gone With the Wind was always one of my favorites because it's so dramatic and stunning.

Fairy tales are my natural language. I feel at ease telling fairy tales like a fish feels in water. I am totally free.

When you're late in a fairy tale, people wind up dead. And not true-love's-kiss, glass-coffin-nap-time dead. Really dead, the kind of dead you don't recover from.

I want to believe in the fairy tale.

The great thing about fairy tales and folk tales is that there is no authentic text.

Actually everybody has a story, a fairy tale in their heart that they adhere to.

The old tale of Sleeping Beauty might end happily in French or English, but he was in Russia, and only a fool would want to live through the Russian version of any fairy tale.

Science Fiction: fairy tales for nerds.

Do you believe in fairy tales?" "What...what kind of fairy tales?" "The kind you aren't supposed to waste your life on.

Whenever Disney asks if you want to do a fairy tale musical, you say yes.

You perceive, do you not, that our national fairy tales reflect the inmost desires of the Briton and the Gaul?

I grew up with a lot of fairy tales. And they had an essence of darkness to them.

Novels are to love as fairy tales to dreams.

That's the fairy tale. You meet, you fall in love, you kiss, and neither of you is revolted by it. You get married and have kids and live happily ever after.

So maybe it wasn't the fairy tale. But those stories weren't real anyway. Mine were.

I've learned that I want what I deny. I want someone who is crazy about me, who treats me like a princess. I want the picture-perfect fairy tale stuff.

The NBA is fairy tale and real life mixed together.

I've always loved fairy tales and magic - especially twisting them on their ears and poor trolls have always had such a bad rep.

You once told me that I make you believe in the impossible. You make me believe in love, which I’d given up on. Thank you for proving to me it’s not just a fairy tale.

Contrary to what many may think, immortality is not a fairy tale invented to compensate for an unhappy life.