Top 100 Quotes About Fairy Tales
#1. American cinema is international like the fairy tales were international.
Bertrand Tavernier
#3. Once upon a time, fairy tales were AWESOME!
Adam Gidwitz
#4. I'm not writing fairy tales or object lessons.
Junot Diaz
#5. None of [the books are] worth reading. There are no fairy tales, no faerie tails, no sword-swinging princesses or lightning-throwing gods.
Laurie Halse Anderson
#6. He made her want to believe in fairy tales and lies. In males who were decent and loving.
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#7. You can't change destinies already written, that only happens in fairy tales.
Katie McGarry
#8. In fairy tales they all seem perfect, but really they are just as troubled as we are!
Teal Vitler
#9. Fairy tales and folk tales are for children and childlike people, not because they are little and inconsequential, but because they are as enormous as life itself.
Anthony Esolen
#10. The whole world had changed. Only the fairy tales remained the same. And they lived happily ever after,
Lois Lowry
#11. Farewell, farewell," said the swallow, with a heavy heart, as he left the warm countries, to fly back into Denmark. There he had a nest over the window of a house in which dwelt the writer of fairy tales. The swallow sang "Tweet, tweet," and from his song came the whole story.
Hans Christian Andersen
#12. I sighed. 'Ah spite, the stuff of fairy tales.
Molly Harper
#13. When I used to read fairy-tales, I fancied that kind of thing never happened, and now here I am in the middle of one!
Lewis Carroll
#14. I have never dreamed of being a princess. I have not longed for Prince Charming. I have and do long for something resembling a happily ever after. I am supposed to be above such flights of fantasy, but I am not. I am enamored of fairy tales.
Roxane Gay
#15. As a child, I loved fairy tales because the story, the what-comes-next, is paramount. As an adult, I'm fascinated by their logic and illogic.
Gail Carson Levine
#16. There was a place in childhood that I remember well, And there a voice of sweetest tone bright fairy tales did tell.
Samuel Lover
#17. A gang of unpredictable ruffians by day who turned to enthralling storytellers after dark. I would sometimes join them, and listen for a great part of the night to some of the finest fairy tales and most romantic legends it has ever been my fortune to hear.
Russell S. Bonds
#18. Though aware that there is nothing in the universe that suggests any purpose for humanity, one way that we can find a purpose is to study the universe by the methods of science, without consoling ourselves with fairy tales about its future, or about our own.
Steven Weinberg
#19. A child gets moral notions from the fairy-tales he delights in, as do his elders from tale and verse.
Charlotte M. Mason
#20. The naturalist worldview is a good way to feel grounded and feel part of something that isn't based on fairy tales. It's based on observable facts in the human and in the biological history of the planet. I think that can be a source for comfort.
Greg Graffin
#21. the logic of fairy tales was that there was no logic: bad things happened to the innocent, children were set out in the woods by their parents, fear walked hand in hand with experience, a wish spoken aloud could make it so. I
Alice Hoffman
#22. 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.
Maureen Johnson
#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. We know from myths and fairy tales that there are many different kinds of powers in this world. One child is given a light saber, another a wizard's education. The trick is not to amass all the different kinds of power, but to use well the kind you've been granted.
Susan Cain
#25. 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.
Albert Einstein
#26. She'd been let down enough times to know not to believe in fairy tales.
Michelle Madow
#27. I like being scared, so I've always liked fairy tales because they're kind of creepy.
Lana Parrilla
#28. Overnight Success Happens Only in Fairy Tales, Trashy Novels, and Bad Movies.
Ernie J Zelinski
#29. [Fairy tales] make rivers run with wine only to make us remember, for one wild moment, that they run with water.
G.K. Chesterton
#30. Fairy tales to me are never happy, sweet stories. They're moral stories about overcoming the dark side and the bad.
Joe Wright
#31. historically fairy tales were women's stories, passed orally in a time when women didn't have many rights.
Nora Roberts
#32. Fairy tales were important to me. Aren't they for any kid? My sister says I spent a good five years of my youth convinced I would grow up to be a princess.
Susannah Grant
#33. Happy endings aren't just for fairy tales and massage parlors.
Susan Gloss
#34. I had a serious library at my disposal, because my Popo believed that culture entered by osmosis and it was better to start early, but my favorite books were fairy tales.
Isabel Allende
#35. In fairy tales," her mother used to say, "no one ever says I love you. They give food and they kiss. That's what love is made of.
Jacqueline Sweet
#37. Because the great thing about fairy tales and folk tales is that there is no authentic text. It's not like the text of Paradise Lost or James Joyce's Ulysses, and you have to adhere to that exact text.
Philip Pullman
#38. I published my first book in 1982 - a collection of Irish folklore called Irish Folk & Fairy Tales. It is still in print today. My first young adult book was published a couple of years later, and I've been writing in both genres ever since.
Michael Scott
#39. Just about every science whiz can tell you how he or she took apart the TV or the radio when they were kids just to see how it worked. To see what the world was made of. Well, when I was a kid, I took apart fairy tales to see how they worked. To see what the world was made of.
Catherynne M Valente
#40. Fairy tales are stories of triumph and transformation and true love, all things I fervently believe in.
Kate Forsyth
#41. Before you enter the forest, you must leave your mind outside, because in the land of fairy tales there is no need for it!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#43. Fairy tales have always got to have something a bit scary for children - as long as you make them laugh as well.
Roald Dahl
#44. The problem with fairy tales is that most of them begin with tragedy.
Kelly Oram
#45. No wonder princesses were so impotent in fairy tales, she thought. If all they could do was smile, stand straight, and speak to squirrels, then what choice did they have but to wait for a boy to rescue them? Princess
Soman Chainani
#46. Deeper meaning resides in the fairy tales told me in my childhood than any truth that is taught in life.
Friedrich Schiller
#47. Miracles do not belong to fairy tales. Miracles belong to the desperate, because only the desperate believe in bullshit.
Amy Zhang
#49. Mother didn't understand that children aren't frightened by stories; that their lives are full of far more frightening things than those contained in fairy tales.
Kate Morton
#50. I'm here because all fairy tales take place in the woods, King Cole, even those that don't.
Bill Willingham
#51. In the fairy tales, the poor girl smiles when she becomes a princess. Right now, I don't know if I'll ever smile again.
Victoria Aveyard
#52. Fairy tales, because they have a very clear structure, are easier to interfere with. Also they have this really weird logic: the kind of logic that you only really experience when you're not feeling very well, or as a child.
Helen Oyeyemi
#53. Fairy tales have rules. You are a princess or you aren't. You are pure at heart or you aren't. If you are pure at heart, or lucky, you might catch a break.
Richard Siken
#54. I don't believe in fairy tales, but I believe in you and me
Natalia Kills
#55. This is the thing about fairy tales: You have to live through them, before you get to happily ever after. That ever after has to be earned, and not everyone makes it that far.
Kat Howard
#56. The strong belief can make things out of imagination.
But that can also make facts as if they were fairy tales.
Toba Beta
#57. It's just that you go so crazy being alone like that. Sometimes he'd forget my water or food and I'd cry and cry and cry." She stops talking and looks out the window. "I would try to tell myself stories to pass the time. Fairy tales. Parts of books. But they got used up.
Holly Black
#58. I don't know what to think about magic and fairy tales.
Richard Dawkins
#59. All day Marie-Laure lies on her stomach and reads. Logic, reason, pure science: these, Aronnax insists, are the proper ways to pursue a mystery. Not fables and fairy tales.
Anthony Doerr
#61. And fairy tales are make-believe. They are the stories we tell to small children to make them believe the world is a far better place than it really is.
J.L. Vallance
#62. I never read any fairy tales or classics until I was an adult; all we ever had was comics ... No television, either. If we wanted entertainment, we hung around the fish shop.
Michael Foreman
#63. As for fairy tales, he understood that they were reflections of the people who had spun them, and were flecked with little truths - intrusions of reality into fantasy, like toast crumbs on a wizard's beard.
Laini Taylor
#64. If you want to tell grown-up fairy tales, you have to look for the dark side.
Juan Antonio Bayona
#65. The universe has a much greater imagination than we do, which is why the real story of the universe is far more interesting than any of the fairy tales we have invented to describe it.
Lawrence M. Krauss
#66. Haven't you noticed most of your fairy tales take place in the woods?" a man a few feet from me says. He stutters and lets a belch escape him. "That's why we're out here. We were hoping Jimmi would bring enough damsels for us all, though!
Celia Mcmahon
#67. I was a Nancy Drew girl. Also Grimms' fairy tales.
Sue Monk Kidd
#68. Next time I go to a movie and see a picture of a little ordinary girl become a great star ... I'll believe it. And whenever I hear my wife read fairy tales to my little boy, I'll listen. I know now that dreams do come true.
Jackie Robinson
#69. Fairy Tales are born from our need for love and without romance the world is bitter. With love in your heart the world is always sweet.
Nanette Kinslow
#70. I don't believe in fairy tales," she breathed.
"I'd like to make you believe." He leaned over and kissed her forehead.
Sylvain Reynard
#71. Generally speaking, it has been my ambition to write as a good old nurse will speak when she tells fairy tales.
Joseph Jacobs
#72. People don't like the true and simple; they like fairy tales and humbug.
Edmond De Goncourt
#73. I began to believe the fairy tales: You know, how we're all out there looking for our magical missing half.
Michael Bergin
#74. May you never grow too old to believe in magic and fairy tales.
Misty Dawn Seidel
#75. I was raised on the brothers Grimm, but my favorite fairy tales in the world are Oscar Wilde's - 'The Nightingale and the Rose,' 'The Selfish Giant.' The latter is probably my all-time favorite.
Denis O'Hare
#76. I think people should read fairy tales, because we're hungry for a mythology that will speak to our fears.
Sandra Cisneros
#77. 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.
Laurie Foos
#78. I have to believe in fairy tales and I have to believe in love.
Taylor Swift
#79. When fairy tales are written in the west, they're known as folklore. In the east, fairy tales are called religions.
Paul Henderson
#80. Some things were only possible in fairy tales. And not the kind of fairy tales that Baba Yagas featured in; those tended not to have happy endings.
Deborah Blake
#81. What have you done to your eyes? They're all red. Have you been crying?' 'No,' he answers, laughing, 'but I've been staring into my fairy tales, where the sun is very strong.
Knut Hamsun
#82. Sometimes I think we can learn everything we need to know about the world when we read fairy tales. Be careful, be fearless, be honest, leave a trail of crumbs to lead you home again.
Alice Hoffman
#83. Like every girl who grew up being read fairy tales, I thought love was all about big gestures. But now I understand exactly what Grandma meant. It's the heart he drew in the sand on our honeymoon, driving miles to get me the best chicken noodle soup when I was sick, making me coffee every morning.
Jillian Dodd
#84. Fairy tales do not give the child his first idea of bogey. What fairy tales give the child is his first clear idea of the possible defeat of bogey. The baby has known the dragon intimately ever since he had an imagination. What the fairy tale provides for him is a St. George to kill the dragon.
G.K. Chesterton
#85. He stood up for me like the prince does for the princess in the fairy tales Scott used to read to me as a child. I'm not a princess, but Ryan is a knight.
Katie McGarry
#86. This man did not deal in fairy tales. You could see that as soon as you walked into his office. Schevitz was somebody who liked to be proved right, somebody whose wish to prevail was his vocation.
Philip Roth
#87. Children need fairy tales, but it is just as essential that they have parents who tell them about their own lives, so that they can establish a relationship to the past.
Mark Kurlansky
#88. I think people are interested in anything that's a little bigger than life and that's colorful and - you know, what they like? They like fairy tales for grownups.
Stan Lee
#89. There are no rationalists. We all believe fairy-tales, and live in them.
G.K. Chesterton
#90. If I'm honest I have to tell you I still read fairy-tales and I like them best of all.
Audrey Hepburn
#91. I love the quietness of the library, the gateway to knowledge, to the French language and medieval history and hydraulic engineering and fairy tales, learning in a very primitive form: books, something that's quickly giving way to modern technology.
Mary Kubica
#92. Don't let the inconsequential fairy tales stand in your way! You do what makes you happy, no matter what.
Shannon Hale
#93. We no longer believe in fairy tales. But we will learn to believe in monsters
Francesca Lia Block
#94. Fairy tales are about lessons. Those who are virtuous and true are rewarded, while those who are wicked and greedy are punished.
Meagan Spooner
#95. I think that Shakespeare himself raided fairy tales and chronicle writers, and he always looked to people who worked in the mythic genres, whether it was folk tales or popular novels.
Kenneth Branagh
#96. I like to make people happy, and with fairy tales, I can say anything I want to, but in an agreeable way.
Michel Ocelot
#98. I love fairy tales because I think that behind fairy tales, there is always a meaning.
Monica Bellucci
#99. The unsparing savagery of stories like the Robber Bridegroom is a sharp reminder that fairy tales belong to the childhood of culture as much as the culture of childhood ... they capture anxieties and fantasies that have deep roots in childhood experience
Maria Tatar
#100. Fairy tales opened up a door into my imagination - they don't conform to the reality that's around you as a child. I started reading when I was three and read everything, but I wanted to be an actress.
Kate Atkinson
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