Top 100 Fairy Tale Quotes
#1. In fairy-tales, witches always wear silly black hats and black cloaks, and they ride on broomsticks. But this is not a fairy-tale. This is about REAL WITCHES. The most important thing you should know about REAL WITCHES is this. Listen very carefully. Never forget what is coming next.
Roald Dahl
#2. There is nothing so nice as supposing. It's almost like being a fairy. If you suppose anything hard enough it seems as if it were real.
Frances Hodgson Burnett
#3. He bent lower to whisper in her ear, I love you, queen of beauty and love.
Melanie Dickerson
#4. I think, a secret love is something none of your friends would understand. And it's like a fairy tale, but more serious.
Yunho
#5. - You may always talk to me, honey ... - Started suddenly bright white moon. - The stars are too young to give you a wise advice, yet.
Galina Nelson
#6. In a cottage deep in the forest lived the wicked old witch ... it was a cottage out of the nastier kind of fairy tale
Terry Pratchett
#7. Whenever Disney asks if you want to do a fairy tale musical, you say yes.
Robert Lopez
#8. 'Pied Piper' came to me all at once; I wanted to do a fairy-tale movie with some edge, but not 'dark,' per se.
Max Landis
#9. The sleeping beauty in the fairy tale was awakened by the kiss of her prince. Finley woke up to the over-whelming and oh-so-not-delightful smell of vinegar.
"Bloody hell!" She cried, lurching upright.
Kady Cross
#10. Actually everybody has a story, a fairy tale in their heart that they adhere to.
Phoebe Stone
#11. Who needs the fairy tale when crazy, messy, sexy reality with the woman I adore is a million times better?
Kate Meader
#12. The good historian is like the giant of the fairy tale. He knows that wherever he catches the scent of human flesh, there his quarry lies.
Marc Bloch
#13. He's jealous because lions are better hunters."
Monroe
"Are you compensating for something, Monroe?"
Bastian
Bethany Averie
#14. In grammar school they taught me that a frog turning into a prince was a fairy tale. In the university they taught me that a frog turning into a prince was a fact!
Ron Carlson
#15. social infancy, regarded the legends of their faith as a child reads a fairy tale, credulous of all that is supernatural in the agency--unconscious of all that may be philosophical in the moral. It is true, indeed, that dim
Edward Bulwer-Lytton
#16. I have that thing in my stomach where I just need to keep striving for things. In my mind, I want the fairy tale.
January Jones
#17. Turn your failure into a fairy tale of success and triumph.
Debasish Mridha
#18. Tyler, I'd marry you again in a heartbeat. You are my fairy tale.
Rachel Harris
#19. Under the thousand crystal candelabras I danced with ten elderly gentlemen who had nothing to say but did not let that stop them. I answered only, Indeed and Oh yes and Do you think so?
Emma Donoghue
#20. Every fairy tale needs a good old-fashioned villain.
MORIARTY
#21. Serendipity ... You will understand it better by the derivation than by the definition. I once read a silly fairy tale, called 'The Three Princes of Serendip': as their Highnesses traveled, they were always making discoveries, by accidents and sagacity, of things which they were not in quest of.
Horace Walpole
#22. He looked like every hero in every fairy tale I'd ever dreamed come to life. And, God, I wanted to believe in heroes again. But sometimes, I supposed, a girl just had to be her own hero.
Mia Sheridan
#23. Which fairy-tale princess ever chose her maid over her prince?
Kate Morton
#24. I've had a fairy tale life. I had a perfect family, a beautiful childhood, an incredible upbringing. I lived a lot of life but a lot of good life.
John Stamos
#26. She looks like a fairy tale, but yet feels so natural (natural, natural, natural)
This one's a beast, but way to wonderful to be compared to an animal
DJ Drama
#27. As in any proper fairy tale, there's a majick formula, in this case called the Rule of Nines.
Andrew Davidson
#28. I wanted a fairy tale ending for Wavy, because if she could find happiness, there would be hope for me, too.
Bryn Greenwood
#29. Life repeats Shakespearian themes more often than we think. Did Lady Macbeth, Richard III, and King Claudius exist only in the Middle Ages? Shylock wanted to cut a pound of flesh from the body of the merchant of Venice. Is that a fairy tale?
Varlam Shalamov
#30. It had been fun to ride the fairy tale of Baz Acker actually giving a shit about him, but he knew firsthand fairy tales were a lot more Grimm brothers and much less Walt Disney.
Heidi Cullinan
#31. Yule - Yul log for the Christmas-fire tale-spinner - of fairy tales that can come true: Yul Brynner.
Marianne Moore
#32. The story of my marriage, which is the great joy and astonishment of my life, is too much like a fairy tale, the German kind, unsweetened by Disney.
Ann Patchett
#33. 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.
Brian Eno
#34. Soul bonds can't be broken. They only bend for a while ...
Diane J. Reed
#35. 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.
Brian Froud
#36. Are ya trying' to kill me, lass?"
"Kill you? No." Maggie leaned closer, her hands drifting up and cradling his face as she rolled her hips again in one wicked pass. "Torture you? Maybe.
Sara Humphreys
#37. Of one thing be certain: if a CEO is enthused about a particularly foolish acquisition, both his internal staff and his outside advisors will come up with whatever projections are needed to justify his stance. Only in fairy tales are emperors told that they are naked.
Warren Buffett
#38. I was a great reader of fairy tales. I tried to read the entire fairy tale section of the library.
Beverly Cleary
#39. You know how your mother and I met," Dad began.
I rolled my eyes. "Everyone does. You two are practically a fairy tale.
Kiera Cass
#40. There was no slipper, nor spinning wheel, nor true love's first kiss. This was not a fairy tale with a happily ever after.
Lisa Mantchev
#41. Cinderella was the first fairy tale I remember - the one I was most obsessed with because of the gowns and magic and pretty shoes. Yes, her home life was less than ideal - and considering the talking mice and birds, she probably needed serious therapy.
Cindi Madsen
#43. A ferocious growl drew my gaze to the back of the room, where a hairy beast wore a yellow ball gown. I tried to block out the memory of Beauty in that dress earlier this evening.
Betsy Schow
#45. For the hand of a beauty with honest words and sensibilities so mighty."
Though your mother and father had hoped for something more fragile (and flighty),
Mandy Nachampassack-Maloney
#47. You are brave and strong and good, noble and kind. I love you and I think you're ...
Melanie Dickerson
#48. ah, life -
the thing
that happens
to us
while we're off
somewhere else
blowing on
dandelions
wishing
ourselves into
the pages of
our favorite
fairy tales.
Amanda Lovelace
#49. What do you mean 'speaking of fairy tales'? Since when do fairy tales include gigolos?" Annie asked.
"Well, since most fairy-tale princes are either gay or weirdly attached to their mommies, I think Walt Disney should seriously consider their inclusion," Sophie answered.
Elle Aycart
#50. In a fairy tale, the story can't be altered. The prince and princess will never have a fight. You'll never hear the queen raise her voice. No on ever gets sick; no one ever gets hurt. Maybe love is only safe in places where it can't change.
Jodi Picoult
#51. When we think about fairy tales, we think about happily ever afters, forgetting the darkness that stories beginning with "once upon a time" so often contain.
I tried to protect Shay from that darkness. But there was no way to shield her from the truth: Life is not a fairy tale.
Laura J. Burns
#52. I love you," he said. "I love you more than any other creature, because you are cruel, and kind, and alive. Nyx Triskelion, will you be my wife?
Rosamund Hodge
#53. And you're right- I don't want nice. I want sparks and fire. I want a romance novel. A Jane Austen movie. A fairy tale.
Shari L. Tapscott
#54. I am not the wicked stepmother in this fairy's tale.
Barry Webster
#55. Innocent parents might have thought that a musical cartoon version of a fairy tale would be a child's ideal introduction to movie magic. Yet Walt Disney taught moral lessons in the most useful way: by scaring the poop out of the little ones.
Richard Corliss
#56. WANTED: DEAD OR ALIVE: RAPUNZEL
For horse thieving, kidnapping, jail breaking, and using her hair in a manner other than nature intended!
REWARD
Shannon Hale
#57. A common question asked of Mr. Fenn was, "How old is the boy?" to which Mr. Fenn's reply, year after year, was, "He has been somewhere between twelve and thirteen since the day I laid eyes on him.
Christopher Daniel Mechling
#58. Goldenrod Moram had a first name that sounded like it belonged in the middle of a fairy tale, where she would be the dazzling princess in need of rescuing.
Sarvenaz Tash
#59. Mary Poppins is not a fairy-tale."
"She's even better!" said Alfred loyally. "She's a fairy-tale come true.
P.L. Travers
#60. 'Enchanted' illustrates how impractical fairy-tale ideals are in the World As We Know It, and yet, Giselle's unabashed optimism always seems to magically find its time and place.
Alethea Kontis
#61. Fairy tales and myths are forms of cultural storage for the natural history of life.
William Irwin Thompson
#62. My eyelashes tickled the peephole. from Fogged Up Fairy Tale (Summer 2014)
Denise Baer
#64. Being dead is highly overrated. It's no fun at all.
Mythe: A Fairy Tale
P.J. Gordon
#65. Does a man of sense run after every silly tale of hobgoblins or fairies, and canvass particularly the evidence? I never knew anyone, that examined and deliberated about nonsense who did not believe it before the end of his enquiries.
David Hume
#66. We all recall the cruel stepmother in fairy tales. That archetype is often a necessary element in a fairy tale so that the heroine/hero can become a person of character and power. Stories of heroes and heroines often begin with a wound or loss or injustice and end with heroic acts of restoration.
David Richo
#68. 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.
Laurell K. Hamilton
#69. Men like him, the kind of guys who left the womb fighting? They didn't get fairy-tale endings. They burned bright until they burned out - and he was burning out.
Tonya Burrows
#70. It's going to be a grand adventure and a fairy tale of marvels. But it's my fault that you'll find a dragon at the end, my darling knight.
Fredrik Backman
#71. 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.
Orson Scott Card
#72. As in most fairy tales, there's a prince and a princess, dragons and some magic, and the feeling it gives you that anything is possible if we could stay this way forever.
Crystal Woods
#73. Hmm? It's sort of a hunch ... I just knew when I saw your eyes ... I can't come up with cool words to describe it. Well. To put it simply ... '
After deliberating, he finally said the words that are likely to come from the wizards in a fairy-tale.
'I can do anything.
Ryohgo Narita
#74. If by it, you mean that big ass vein in the middle of your forehead, then yeah. It moved all right and it's still pulsing.
Kimberly Spencer
#75. I found the kingdom of far far away, prince charming would not be so far.
Arzum Uzun
#76. She was turning Royce into her knight in shining armor, and she knew all too well that was a fairy tale that didn't exist.
Lisa Renee Jones
#77. I am no prince if not yours. -Brandon Maxfield
Ninya Tippett
#78. What Grimm fairy tale featured apiarian morphing humans?
Solange Nicole
#79. Troubles of Straw Spun Into Gold
Just as in the fairy tale RUMPELSTILTSKIN, God will spin your straw into gold. You won't know how He does it, but He will.
Cheryl Zelenka
#80. 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.
Kate Bernheimer
#81. But life is not a fairy tale. It's brighter and darker, longer and briefer, duller and more magical. It's full of contradictions, but one thing it's not is neat.
Kirsty Logan
#82. 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.
Lily Collins
#83. This isn't the way the fairy-tale is supposed to end. Everyone knows that.
Donna Cooner
#84. A fairy tale is the kind of story in which one king goes to another king to borrow a cup of sugar.
Angela Carter
#85. We see men and women who work as hard as they possibly can and still fall behind a little more every month. We see lives that look nothing like those lived by billionaires in eighteen-thousand-square-foot condos, because these people don't live in some fairy tale - they live in today's reality. *
Elizabeth Warren
#86. Trying to pump breath into a fairy tale is as arduous and tragic as ancient Greek theatre.
Terry A. O'Neal
#87. Life isn't a fairy tale, and happy endings are few and far between
Kristen Bell
#88. Every good fairy tale has a kernel of truth to it.
Melissa Grey
#89. And when we are with Alex, I might as well not be there. They speak in a language of whispers and giggles and secrets; their words are like a fairy-tale tangle of thorns, which place a wall between us.
Lauren Oliver
#90. His [(Rumpelstiltskin)] feeling that his name, which is his identity, must be kept secret, or else he'll be revealed to the world as the hunchbacked, shriveled, ridiculous creature he knows himself to be. And if that happens, he'll disappear.
Joan Gould
#91. Most people surrendered fairy tale hopes in exchange for cookie cutter lives
Roy L. Pickering Jr.
#92. Nature is a book, a letter, a fairy tale (in the philosophical sense) or whatever you want to call it.
Johann Georg Hamann
#93. I cannot come with you, my prince," he said with great tenderness, as he kneeled over the sleeping Neriah and placed the chain around his neck. "But perhaps, when you sleep, you will dream of me." He touched his hand to Neriah's forehead and whispered, "Now, forget me.
Shira Anthony
#94. The regime is in trouble economically and can no longer offer anything to its citizens. That's why [Vladimir] Putin has to pursue an aggressive foreign policy, so he can serve his people the fairy tale of Russian pride and regaining its strength as a major power.
Garry Kasparov
#95. Angels do not whisper in our ears. Predestination is a fairy tale, a bedtime story for adults scared of meaningless death.
Paul Doiron
#96. I'm a romantic and I kinda believed in this fairy tale. And in some ways I think that's always been to my advantage, because like if you can believe in something great, I feel like you can achieve something great.
Katy Perry
#97. She felt as if she had strayed into a fairy tale, as full of peril as of wonder, a place where anything could happen.
Kate Forsyth
#99. Life is a fairy tale that was written by hopes, dreams, and desires.
Debasish Mridha
#100. In this night, pure and everlasting, like an old fairy tale, being Turkish felt infinitely better than being poor.
Orhan Pamuk
