Top 27 Quotes On Dragons Fairy Tales
#1. Fairy tales dont tell you that dragons are real, but that they can be defeated!
Kate DiCamillo
#2. 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
#3. I've got the perfect dress. It's going to knock your socks off."
Marcus wasn't sure if that was good or bad, but he couldn't wait to find out.
Deborah Blake
#4. I can tell you that events were incremental, that the unbelievable became the believable and, ultimately, the normal.
Ralph Webster
#5. I believe in steel swords, gold coins, and man's wits. ( ... ) And I believe there once were dragons. I've seen their skulls, after all.
George R R Martin
#6. 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
#7. 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
#8. Children are more able to objectively synthesize a story involving vampires, monsters, or dragons due to the distance afforded by the fantastical elements than they are a story revolving around horrors committed by human beings.
Joseph Abbruscato
#9. Dragons and bridges are very much something out of fairy tales and fantasy.
John Howe
#11. (Fairy tales, as G. K. Chesterton* once pointed out, are not true. They are more than true. Not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be defeated.) V
Neil Gaiman
#12. Everyone wants the fairy tale, but don't forget there are dragons in those stories.
R. Queen
#14. But most dragons seem to have interesting personalities
besides probably having quite good reasons for what they do, if only one could understand them
Diana Wynne Jones
#15. I've always been a huge fantasy fan. I was always interested in fairy tales and anything with magic or dragons ... I was always drawn to those types of stories.
Sarah J. Maas
#16. Wherever in any society there are too many laws, it is a sure sign that that society will soon die. If you study the characteristics of India, you will find that no nation possesses so many laws as the Hindus, and national death is the result.
Swami Vivekananda
#19. He doesn't need to know the path to adventure. He simply needs to recognize that it awaits.
Lorraine Heath
#20. Dragons were a problem sometimes, but they only came on Tuesdays, so you could work around them.
Mike Carey
#21. We had to figure out how to produce books in a cost-effective way.
LeVar Burton
#23. What drove us crazy wasn't necessarily the sexual freedom his critic claimed he was unleashing, but freedom, period. Freedom to be yourself, to express yourself, to wear what you wanted to wear, to look the way you wanted to look, to have your own style, your own talk.
Larry Geller, Joel Spector, Patricia Romanowski
#24. Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.
Neil Gaiman
#25. 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
#26. When you are destined for greatness, it shows in everything you do.
It becomes you. Greatness becomes you.
Lorii Myers
#27. G. K. Chesterton once said, 'Fairy tales are more than true, not because they tell us dragons exist, but because they tell us dragons can be beaten.'" She
Claire Stibbe