Fairy-tales Quotes

It's just that, right now, I want to hear you promise me that if we do run out of time and I go mad,...

There was once a young man who wished to gain his Heart’s Desire.

Do not lose hope - what you seek will be found.

I don't have a lot of patience for stories in which women are rescued by men.

Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell u...

Of course, fairy tales are transmissible. You can catch them, or be infected by them. They are curre...

He was walking into Faerie, in search of a fallen star, with no idea how he would find the star, nor...

I like stories where women save themselves.

You don’t need princes to save you. I don’t have a lot of patience for stories in which women are re...

She's as old as the hills, evil as a snake, all malevolence and magic and death.

That's the thing about being the product of happily marries parents, You grow up thinking the fairy ...

Dear Prince, I must leave you, but I will never forget you, and next spring I will bring you back tw...

Don’t you know that everybody’s got a Fairyland of their own?

Finally, I’d say to anyone who wants to tell these tales, don’t be afraid to be superstitious. If yo...

Princess, princess, youngest daughter,Open up and let me in!Or else your promise by the waterIsn’t w...

The fairy tale is in a perpetual state of becoming and alteration. To keep to one version or one tra...

It was the Kojagar full moon, and I was slowly pacing the riverside conversing with myself. It could...

I've discovered as I've grown up that life is far more complicated than you think it is when you're ...

THE UNICORN: The saintly hermit, midway through his prayersstopped suddenly, and raised his eyes to ...

Everything that was not so must go. All the beautiful literary lies and flights of fancy must be sho...

Though it's fearful, Though it's deep, though it's dark And though you may lose the path, Though you...

When I was a little girl I used to read fairy tales. In fairy tales you meet Prince Charming and he'...

Everything that ever happened is just stories now, Earl. But it was all very real to people while it...

The way to read a fairy tale is to throw yourself in.

The fairy tale, which to this day is the first tutor of children because it was once the first tutor...

There's a great power of imagination about these little creatures, and a creative fancy and belief t...

In the end it wins a king's daughter, who is expected to burn its hedgehog-skin at night, and does s...

Once upon a time, when men and women hurtled through the air on metal wings, when they wore webbed f...

When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy h...

If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more inte...

Fear isn't so difficult to understand. After all, weren't we all frightened as children? Nothing has...

And then they lived happily, and we who hear the story are happier still.

And the old woman who had been the prince’s nurse became nurse to the prince’s children — at least s...

I fear nothing when I am doing right,' said Jack.'Then,' said the lady in the red cap, 'you are one ...

...she has been bewitched by a wicked sorceress, and will not regain her beauty until she is my wife...

Why should I laugh?' asked the old man. 'Madness in youth is true wisdom. Go, young man, follow your...

It is so delightful to teach those one loves!

...remember that the danger that is most to be feared is never the danger we are most afraid of.

Madame d'Aulnoy is the true mother of the modern fairy tale. She invented the modern Court of Fairyl...

Again, if there are really no fairies, why do people believe in them, all over the world? The ancien...

It's an invention, a fairy tale devoid of any sense, like all the legends in which good spirits and ...

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

For most of human history, 'literature,' both fiction and poetry, has been narrated, not written — h...

To be the object of desire is to be defined in the passive case.To exist in the passive case is to d...

Yesterday's fairy tale is today's fact. The magician is only one step ahead of his audience.

Give me your skin as sheer as a cobweb, let me open it up and listen in and scoop out the dark.

If I’m honest I have to tell you I still read fairy-tales and I like them best of all.

Nabokov calls every great novel a fairy tale, I said. Well, I would agree. First, let me remind you ...

I learned that we may meet a true love and that our lives may be transformed by such an encounter ev...

At all ages, if [fantasy and myth] is used well by the author and meets the right reader, it has the...

[The fairy tale] is accused of giving children a false impression of the world they live in. But I t...

You can do more with a castle in a story than with the best cardboard castle that ever stood on a nu...

In a utilitarian age, of all other times, it is a matter of grave importance that fairy tales should...

Think what you would have been now, if instead of being fed with tales and old wives' fables in chil...

You're just so confident and self-sufficient. So many girls - especially in my world - are so insecu...

Bring a sword to school. Trust me-those girls will leave you alone.

Then find out what your sword is - find your own advantage - and wear it proudly.

But after being on the run I've learned a life spent creating enemies isn't worth leading. Having al...

I find it far more awesome, wonderful, that creation; our appearance in the world; should be the cul...

Does a man of sense run after every silly tale of hobgoblins or fairies, and canvass particularly th...

But most dragons seem to have interesting personalities--besides probably having quite good reasons ...

There is nothing so nice as supposing. It's almost like being a fairy. If you suppose anything hard ...

In answer, the news of the Gospel is that extraordinary things happen. ... Lear goes berserk on a he...

... the world can give you these glimpses as well as fairy tales can--the smell of rain, the dazzle ...

The eternal child. - We think that play and fairy tales belong to childhood:how shortsighted that is...

A world without fairy tales and myths would be as drab as life without music

I do not write for children, but for the childlike, whether of five, or fifty, or seventy-five.

Seeing is not believing, it is only seeing,”George MacDonald, The Princess and the Goblin

I believe in steel swords, gold coins, and man's wits. (...) And I believe there once were dragons. ...

My heart broke a little at her unblemished view of life: She still believed in innocent secrets, the...

It doesn't matter if you're born in a duck yard, so long as you are hatched from a swan's egg!

Dr. Manning said he'd thought at first it might be sleeping sickness, or even narcolepsy, whatever t...

I really feel that we're not giving children enough credit for distinguishing what's right and what'...

Fantasy is a natural human activity. It certainly does not destroy or even insult Reason; and it doe...

Even when a prohibition in a fairy-story is guessed to be derived from some taboo once practised lon...

the association of children and fairy-stories is an accident of our domestic history. Fairy-stories ...

The realm of fairy-story is wide and deep and high and filled with many things: all manner of beasts...

Studies [on the origin of fairy-stories] are, however, scientific (at least in intent); they are the...

It was an irresistible development of modern illustration (so largely photographic) that borders sho...

In describing a fairy story which they think adults might possibly read for their own entertainment,...

No one, I fancy, would discredit a story that the Archbishop of Canterbury slipped on a banana skin ...

...the Princess Saralinda thought she saw, as people often think they see, on clear and windless day...

They [Fairy Tales] are talking about real emotions, telling true stories, through the medium of meta...

Ah—now you think I have been lying to you, that this is only a story. It has a king in it. And while...

The tales of Elfland do not stand or fall on their actuality but on their truthfulness, their speaki...

As she put it, she knew of nothing so ravishing as having a child whom she could whip whenever she w...

Think of every fairy-tale villainess you've ever heard of. Think of the wicked witches, the evil que...

Think of every fairy-tale villainess you've ever heard of. Think of the wicked witches, the evil que...

My feelings for Raphael are mine, and mine alone. I loved him, and that is all anyone needs to know....

Once upon a time – for that is how all stories should begin – there was a boy who lost his mother.

Once upon a time the fairy tales begin. But then they end and often you don't know really what has h...

Perhaps I should admit on the title page that this book is "By L. Frank Baum and his correspondents,...

O, to be sure, we laugh less and play less and wear uncomfortable disguises like adults, but beneath...

The whole world had changed. Only the fairy tales remained the same.

I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.

Like ´Bluebeard´, the fairy tale of ´Snow White´does not record a single, appalling crime, but testi...

The Other Worlds which fairy tales explore open a way for writers and storytellers to speak in Other...

The more one knows fairy tales the less fantastical they appear; they can be vehicles of the grimmes...

The store of fairy tales, that blue chamber where stories lie waiting to be rediscovered, holds out ...

Stories were migrants, blow-ins, border-crossers, tunnellers from France and Italy and more distant ...