Top 100 Quotes About Fairy
#1. And our lady friend, she thinks life works like a fairy tale.'
Well, that's harmless, isn't it?'
Yeah, but in fairy tales, when someone dies ... it's just a word.
Terry Pratchett
#2. Perhaps there never was a monument more characteristic of an age and people than the Alhambra; a rugged fortress without, a voluptuous palace within; war frowning from its battlements; poetry breathing throughout the fairy architecture of its halls.
Washington Irving
#3. I don't feel there's a difference between the real world and the fairy-tale world. They contain psychological truths and, I guess, projections of what the culture that tells them thinks about various things: men, women, aging, dying - the most basic aspects of being human.
Helen Oyeyemi
#4. Rudeness is limiting. Sometimes a false hospitality can be even more dangerous, as any reader of fairy tales must know.
Patrick Flanery
#5. Like the hero of a fairy-tale Mr Norrell had discovered that the power to do what he wished had been his own all along.
Susanna Clarke
#6. They [Fairy Tales] are talking about real emotions, telling true stories, through the medium of metaphor. People used to understand metaphor better than I think we do now. But these stories are so potent, they refuse to die.
Jane Yolen
#7. She knows that whispers can be useful. Sometimes they contain real information. But usually they're fairy tales and lies. This is the worst kind of whisper, the kind that draws you in, gives you hope.
Julianna Baggott
#8. Beyond the picket fences and the oil wells, the happy endings, and the fairy tales, is the reality of shattered lives and broken dreams. We carry on.
Tim McGraw
#9. 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
#10. Somebody's sent a funny little valentine to me. It's a bunch of baby-roses in a vase of filigree, And hovering above them ... is a fairy cupid tangled in a scarf of poetry.
James Whitcomb Riley
#11. I have always loved fairy tales, even now at the age when I am supposed to be too grown up and cynical for them.
Claire Wong
#12. Once upon a time, I was a little girl sick in the hospital, and my mother gave me a copy of 'Grimm's Fairy Tales' to comfort me.
Kate Forsyth
#13. It is the music which makes it what it is; it is the music which changes the place from the rear room of a saloon in back of the yards to a fairy place, a wonderland, a little comer of the high mansions of the sky.
Upton Sinclair
#14. It wasn't until I was an adult reader that I began to fathom the influence of fairy tales on writers I was in love with over the years, from Louisa May Alcott to Bernard Malamud to John Cheever to Anne Frank to Joy Williams.
Kate Bernheimer
#15. As a shy kid growing up in Sheffield, I fantasized about how it would be great to be famous so I wouldn't actually have to talk to people and feel awkward. And of course, as we all know from fairy stories, when you achieve that ambition, you find out you don't want it.
Jarvis Cocker
#16. House, and trust me, he wasn't the type to read fairy tales
J.K. Rowling
#17. Like some wondrous birds out of fairy tales, books sang their songs to me and spoke to me as though communing with one languishing in prison; they sang of the variety and richness of life, of man's audacity in his strivings towards goodness and beauty.
Maxim Gorky
#18. That is the true crime that fairy tales commit - making people like me think that we counted in this world. I was neither hot nor in shape. I was just a normal boy in an extraordinary world, and stories like that, no matter how misleading and destructive, would always appeal to people like me.
John Goode
#19. For me, any fiction of nobles and swords necessarily has to be a story of corruption, injustice and savagely violent conflict - because any other treatment is going to have all the heft and realistic honesty of a bedtime fairy tale for five year olds.
Richard K. Morgan
#20. Even nightingales can't be fed on fairy tales.
Ivan Turgenev
#21. If I had influence with the good fairy ... I should ask that her gift to each child in the world be a sense of wonder so indestructible that it would last throughout life.
Rachel Carson
#22. OK, I admit it. I was just a front-man for the real fathers of Linux, the Tooth Fairy and Santa Claus.
Linus Torvalds
#23. Sometimes life asks us to make more serious choices than whether or not to believe a fairy tale
Chrystal Vaughan
#24. Only in cartoons and fairy tales and greeting cards do endings have glitter
Holly Goldberg Sloan
#25. I squared my shoulders, trying to ignore the fact that I was standing in the apartment of the sea witch, wearing a fairy-tale prom gown, waiting for the attack of the mermaids.
Seanan McGuire
#26. I also like the whole idea of fairy tales and folk tales being a woman's domain, considered a lesser domain at the time they were told.
Alice Hoffman
#27. She was sent to sleep under a velvety cloak of words, richly patterned and stitched with gold, straight out of a fairy tale, while they went reading on into her dreams.
Eudora Welty
#28. Why can't love be a fairy tale?
Amy Davis
#29. Already Buenos Aires was dyeing the horizon with pink fires, soon to flaunt its diadem of jewels, like some fairy hoard.
Antoine De Saint-Exupery
#30. Chicago is partly a fairy tale because it's inside one person's head, so that part of it's made up and the rest of it is reality.
Colleen Atwood
#31. You can make a child believe a lot of things. Santa Claus, the Tooth Fairy, the Easter Bunny ... just about anything really, except love. You cannot make a child believe you love him if you don't
Samantha Sotto
#32. You are still a very loosome lass, Lael Click." "Loosome?" "Lovely. But you need tae regain your strength. I canna wed and bed so wee a fairy.
Laura Frantz
#33. Love is hard Phoenix. It's not always easy like you see in fairy tales. You have to take the good with the bad; the scary with the excitement. If you love him, trust him. If not than you need to set him free, but don't leave him if you can't let him go. Think about that one.
Victoria Ashley
#34. Motto is Happiness is a #Hashtag and we live life knowing the fairy tale is possible, even if you only get it online.
J.A. Huss
#35. Our souls yearn for connection with all souls. There are people we think we prefer and others we don't, but half the time that's a lie: We tell ourselves the fairy tale of our hatreds out of fear, but we revisit that tale as it suits us. Deep down, we'd love to love and be loved by all.
Alexandra Katehakis
#36. If there are frightful monsters in fairy tales, they do not frighten you now, because that kind of monster is no longer going about the world, whatever he may have done long, long ago. He has been turned into stone, and you may see his remains in museums.
Andrew Lang
#37. I've wanted to be an astronaut, a doctor, a vet - these are things I've said in interviews. Before that, I wanted to be a mermaid and a fairy
Natalie Portman
#38. I absolutely believed when I was young because the Tooth Fairy was always good to me. The Tooth Fairy generally left me a dollar or two dollars and, as a kid, that was a lot of money.
Dwayne Johnson
#39. I was a captive and a slave. I loved Dora Spenlow to distraction! She was more than human to me. She was a Fairy, a Sylph, I dont know what she was
anything that no one ever saw, and everything that everybody ever wanted.
David Copperfield
#40. If he had the earth for his pasture and the sea for his pond, he would be a pauper still. He only is rich who owns the day. There is no king, rich man, fairy or demon who possesses such power as that.
Mentioned in
Sixty Days and Counting, by Kim Stanley Robinson
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#41. Think of the prequels like snap shots of a magical land you're about to visit soon. I like to think of them as poisoned apples ... once you taste them, you'll never see fairy tales in the same light again.
Cameron Jace
#42. My point is that when you fall in love it's with a real person with flaws. Not with a perfect character from a fairy tale.
Mette Ivie Harrison
#43. I found out the hard way that fairy tales and true love don't exist
Elizabeth Eulberg
#44. Everytime a child says 'I don't believe in fairies' there is a a little fairy somewhere that falls down dead.
James M. Barrie
#45. Let the fairy tale begin on a winter's morning, then, with one drop of blood newly-fallen on the ivory snow: a drop as bright as a clear-cut ruby, red as a single spot of claret on the lace cuff.
Ellen Kushner
#46. I think, reading the Grimm's fairy tales, they all have some sort of moral component to them, teaching you a lesson.
Claire Coffee
#47. That fairy tale was the nearest thing to the real truth that has been said today.
G.K. Chesterton
#48. Seeing my parents makes me realise that life is not a fairy tale.
Mollie King
#49. It was about a girl who helps an ugly old woman who turns out to be a good fairy in disguise. Inner values versus shallow appearances.
Connie Willis
#50. I was born and raised in Ohio. During my childhood, I spent most of my time drawing and reading fairy tales and myths.
Natalie Babbitt
#51. Moons and Junes and Ferris wheels The dizzy dancing way you feel As every fairy tale comes real I've looked at love that way.
Joni Mitchell
#52. He looked like a prince, but if I were going to cast him in a fairy tale now, I'd cast him as The Dragon! A beastly, judgmental, fire-breathing dragon.
Mia Sheridan
#53. When I was a little girl, I believed in fairy tales and one of the dreams I had was someday dancing alongside my prince. Asher's that guy for me. He's my dream and my wish come true. He's my prince.
Lisa De Jong
#54. It's not fair. It's not our fault. We have no say in our own lives. We're living a fairy tale someone else wrote.
Melissa De La Cruz
#56. A magic lamp now seemed to be suspended in Maria's prison, and fairy landscapes flitted round the gloomy walls, late so blank. Rushing from the depth of despair, on the seraph wing of hope, she found herself happy. - She was beloved, and every emotion was rapturous.
Mary Wollstonecraft
#57. Fairy tales, as Nell had said, are always complicated.
Nancy Atherton
#58. The unrealistic nature of these tales (which narrowminded rationalists object to) is an important device, because it makes obvious that the fairy tales' concern is not useful information about the external world, but the inner process taking place in an individual.
Bruno Bettelheim
#59. I am not a great believer in fairy tales. Every woman should fight hard for her own happy endings. Although occasionally it is nice to wake up as a princess.
Donatella Versace
#60. I like that 'once upon a time' quality, where the telling of a tale has an elevated sense of story. There's a whimsical quality to it. Sometimes in fairy tales more things seem possible, even though often they're real world based.
Erin Morgenstern
#61. At least that left hope for him. Except "Beauty and the Geek" wasn't exactly the proper translation of the popular fairy tale.
Kelly Moran
#62. Few humans see fairies or hear their music, but many find fairy rings of dark grass, scattered with toadstools, left by their dancing feet.
Judy Allen
#63. I definitely read a lot of books on the psychology and mythology behind fairy tales because I think that's really fascinating and there's a lot to draw on there.
Meghan Ory
#64. O, to be sure, we laugh less and play less and wear uncomfortable disguises like adults, but beneath the costume is the child we always are, whose needs are simple, whose daily life is still best described by fairy tales.
Leo Rosten
#65. If you write anything meaningful over there, June, keep it far away from this city. They will turn a story about glue-addicted gypsy children in the Balkans into an animated musical about a tribe of pixie-sized fairy-dust-loving flamenco dancers who live happily ever after with their dancing bears.
Annie Ward
#66. She had found him and was bringing back his thanks. Nor did she forget to mention that he had assured her that she was indeed the most beautiful fairy he had ever set eyes on.
Cornelia Funke
#67. When your daughter asks you to be a fairy for her 5th birthday party ... you better be a damned fairy.
Tony Hawk
#68. 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
#69. Human beings never enjoy complete happiness in this world. I was not born for a different destiny to the rest of my species: to imagine such a lot befalling me is a fairy tale
a daydream."
"Which I can and will realise. I shall begin today.
Charlotte Bronte
#71. I feel like I'm stuck in an IFCF." I raised a brow. "Interdimensional Fairy Cluster Fuck," she said sourly.
Karen Marie Moning
#72. The old man may have had all his own teeth, but only because no one else could possibly have wanted them; just one of them, placed under the pillow, would have made the Tooth Fairy hand in its wand.
Anonymous
#73. Some said the original evil was the vacuum caused by the Fairy Queen Lurline leaving us alone here. When goodness removes itself, the space it occupies corrodes and becomes evil and maybe slpits apart and multiplies. So every evil thing is a sign of the absence of deity
Gregory Maguire
#74. Life isn't easy. Love isn't easy. Fairy tales are books we read to children. Romance novels are books that make teenagers dream of love and happily ever afters. I'm here to tell you my story. This is my diary. This is my life. This is my truth. You can't make this shit up.
Brenda Novak
#75. There were the fairy tales my father told to me at bedtime. All the standards. I thought my father invented wolves.
John Dufresne
#76. Love was a magic fairy spell. Didn't the girls in my books hunt after love like it was a deer with a white tail? Didn't love wake the dead? Didn't that lady love the beast so hard he turned into a good-looking white fellow? That was what love did. It turned you into something else.
Catherynne M Valente
#77. I have always thought that these two ways of talking, one is the fantastic, the fable, the fairy tale, and the other being history, the scholarly study of what happened, I think they're both amazing ways to understand human nature.
Salman Rushdie
#78. The magical proposition of the gospel, once free from the clasps of fairy tale, was very adult to me, very gritty like something from Hemingway or Steinbeck,
Donald Miller
#79. - "I once knew a girl who loved tigers so much she almost became one herself." Because I am little, and my love of tigers comes directly from him, I believe he is talking about me, offering me a fairy tale in which I can imagine myself - and will, for years and years.
Tea Obreht
#80. It's like being best friends with a fairy-tale giant; Tiny Cooper can't help but hurt you.
John Green
#81. I can't just only be on reality TV and show everything when it's the fairy princess, fairytale, and then not take my hits when I have to.
Bethenny Frankel
#82. Every fairy tale needs a Villain.
Anonymous
#83. A dad ... he teaches responsibility and accountability, but a mom ... ah, a mom teaches her child to dream, to reach for the stars and to believe in fairy tales.
Kristin Hannah
#84. the ignorance fairy sprinkled idiot dust on you when you weren't looking!
Full Sea Books
#85. You think it's easy to find someone? You think they'll just show up at your door and love you, and everything will be perfect and turn out like a fairy tale? Ha! Like that ever happens.
Kristin Walker
#86. Yes, hell exists. It is not a fairy tale. One indeed burns there. This hell is not at the end of life. It is here. At the beginning. Hell is what the infant must experience before he gets to us.
Frederick Leboyer
#87. In the distance, Bo saw a fairy. A fairy so beautiful that he felt proud of being called one in highschool.
Bo Burnham
#88. Why is that fairy-tales always treat marriage as an ending? And always such a perfectly happy one?
Salman Rushdie
#89. That's the problem with wishes, they ensnare you. In fairy tales they're nothing but trouble, magnifying the greed and vanity of the person for whom they are granted.
David Sedaris
#91. Thanks for that by the way, not bad for a fucking Fairy - " I laughed - "get it? Fucking Fairy?" I snorted and closed my eyes.
"I get it," he growled,
Amelia Hutchins
#92. Do people choose the art that inspires them - do they think it over, decide they might prefer the fabulous to the real? For me, it was those early readings of fairy tales that made me who I was as a reader and, later on, as a storyteller.
Alice Hoffman
#93. unbelievable fairy tale ever. And now, people read those BDSM books like they're going out of style because it makes them wet. That sure as fuck doesn't make it a good novel. A porno movie will make them wet too, but it sure doesn't mean it's a good movie. I fucking swear," he said.
Scott Hildreth
#94. Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed.
G.K. Chesterton
#95. People gave names to things so they could tell stories about them, goddam fairy tales about children who got out alive.
Sam Lipsyte
#96. The world can give you these glimpses as well as fairy tales can
the smell of rain, the dazzle of sun on white clapboard with the shadows of ferns and wash on the line, the wildness of a winter storm when in the house the flame of a candle doesn't even flicker.
Frederick Buechner
#97. She tastes like nectar and salt. Nectar and salt and apples. Pollen and stars and hinges. She tastes like fairy tales. Swan maiden at midnight. Cream on the tip of a fox's tongue. She tastes like hope.
Laini Taylor
#98. Idle man, chases after fairy tales ...
Rumi
#99. Once upon a time...There's a reason all fairy tales begin like this. But the 'and they lived happily ever after' at the end? That has to be earned.
Cornelia Funke
#100. Nothing can be more airy and beautiful than the transparent seed-globe-a fairy dome of splendid architecture.
Henry Ward Beecher
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