Fairy Tales Old Quotes

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

Neil Gaiman

#2. One evening, after a particularly terrible row, the prince smashed his princess over the head with an old wooden clock and she tumbled to the floor, dead.

Brooke Warra

#3. And you must tell the child the legends I told you
as my mother told them to me and her mother to her. You must tell the fairy tales of the old country. You must tell of those not of the earth who live forever in the hearts of the people ...

Betty Smith

#4. You're too old for fairy tales," Baasen said.

James S.A. Corey

#5. The old fairy tales are very, very violent, and these days I think we could do with a little less of it.

Julie Andrews

#6. 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

#7. A son," the Queen said, and her smile lit up the room. "Will I give birth soon?"
The old woman nodded.
"When?"
The old woman reached out and rested her hand on top of the basket, watched the Queen's eyes darken. "When he's more beautiful than you.

Wheeler Scott

#8. My inspiration is my life, what I see happening around me. It can be history and, quite often, plain traditional fairy tales. But I never adapt; I nourish myself with old stories, and then create my own tales.

Michel Ocelot

#9. Many people think fairy tales and retellings of fairy tales are only for children, but I'm not the only writer to take an old tale and retell it for a sophisticated adult audience.

Kate Forsyth

#10. Pan took the joke good-naturedly, probably deciding it wasn't a good idea to argue with a fifteen-year-old who had just pulled two people up ten feet.

Grace Anthony

#11. Why should I laugh?' asked the old man. 'Madness in youth is true wisdom. Go, young man, follow your dream, and if you do not find the happiness that you seek, at any rate you will have had the happiness of seeking it.

Andrew Lang

#12. Children are much more understanding of the suddenness and arbitrariness of death than we are. The old fairy tales contain a lot of that, and we've stolen from them, just as they stole from Greek myth, which has that same mixture of pre-Christian chaos.

Emma Thompson

#13. She talks like you. It's not every day you hear a four-year-old say Prince Charming is a douchebag who's only holding Cinderella back."
"That's my girl.

Emma Chase

#14. In the stories, the old fairy tales, a hero comes. But all my heroes are gone or dead. No one is coming for me.

Victoria Aveyard

#15. No one is too old for fairy tales.

Nick Lake

#16. Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.

C.S. Lewis

#17. Think what you would have been now, if instead of being fed with tales and old wives' fables in childhood, you had been crammed with geography and natural history!

Charles Lamb

#18. Generally speaking, it has been my ambition to write as a good old nurse will speak when she tells fairy tales.

Joseph Jacobs

#19. May you never grow too old to believe in magic and fairy tales.

Misty Dawn Seidel

#20. I needed to go into that bare, with nothing from my own life on my body, the way woodcutters' children in fairy tales have to leave their protections behind to enter the enchanted castle; the way votaries in old religions used to go naked to their initiation rites.

Tana French

#21. Again, if there are really no fairies, why do people believe in them, all over the world? The ancient Greeks believed, so did the old Egyptians, and the Hindoos, and the Red Indians, and is it likely, if there are no fairies, that so many different peoples would have seen and heard them?

Andrew Lang

#22. If you like the fairy tales, visit the old towns!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#23. One of the best things about folklore and fairy tales is that the best fantasy is what you find right around the corner, in this world. That's where the old stuff came from.

Terri Windling

#24. Because, no matter how old we get, we always need to believe in fairytales.

Kristen Ashley

#25. Ava's father believed that myths and fairy tales - like dreams - opened a window into the unconscious. by listening to the language of dreams and old tales, he said, all humans could learn to understand themselves and the world, better.

Kate Forsyth

#26. Once upon a time fairy tales were told to audiences of young and old alike. It is only in the last century that such tales were deemed fit only for small children, stripped of much of their original complexity, sensuality, and power to frighten and delight.

Terri Windling