Fairy Quotes · Page 40

It is a man dying with his harness on that angels love to escort upward.

— Henry Ward Beecher

If I'm away from you for more than an hour, I can't stop thinking about you. I carry you in my spirit.…

— Tyler Perry

“...some evidence seems to exist that an idea prevailed that in the fairy sphere there is a reversal of the seasons, our…

— Lewis Spence

Does a man of sense run after every silly tale of hobgoblins or fairies, and canvass particularly the evidence? I never knew…

— David Hume

The loveliest fairy in the world; and her name is Mrs Do as you would bed one by.

— Charles Kingsley

I like that 'once upon a time' quality, where the telling of a tale has an elevated sense of story. There's a…

— Erin Morgenstern

My family is my little village. I really do feel like my fairy tale came true.

— Molly Sims

Fairy tales are experienced by their hearers and readers, not as realistic, but as symbolic poetry.

— Max Luthi

Fairy Tales always have a happy ending.' That depends... on whether you are Rumpelstiltskin or the Queen.

— Jane Yolen

And the good fairy said, I won't leave you money or pretty dresses but I will leave you the spirit to seek…

— Louisa May Alcott

The list of things about which we strictly have to be agnostic doesn't stop at tooth fairies and celestial teapots. It is…

— Richard Dawkins

The people in this house, I felt, and I included myself, were like characters each from a different grim and gruesome fairy…

— Lorrie Moore

First, inevitably, the idea, the fantasy, the fairy tale. Then, scientific calculation. Ultimately, fulfillment crowns the dream.

— Konstantin Tsiolkovsky

[V]ariety of climate should always go with stability of abode.... an Englishman’s house is not only his castle; it is his fairy…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

People gave names to things so they could tell stories about them, goddam fairy tales about children who got out alive.

— Sam Lipsyte

Deaf folk hear the fairies However soft their song; 'Tis we who lose the honey sound Amid the clamor all around That…

— Rose Fyleman

Jed Perl writes precisely and ecstatically. Antoine' s Alphabet is a history and a fairy tale, a work of criticism, and a…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

It is good for children to find themselves facing the elements of a fairy tale - they are well-equipped to deal with…

— Neil Gaiman

Ever heard of anyone executed for distributing copies of Grimm's fairy tales? Imagine people trying to smuggle copies of Hans Christian Andersen's…

— Eric Metaxas

[Comedies], in the ancient world, were regarded as of a higher rank than tragedy, of a deeper truth, of a more difficult…

— Joseph Campbell

“Humans need to learn the lesson of acceptance when things seem to go awry, know that this is only temporary, your flow…

— Sarah Rajkotwala

The objection to fairy stories is that they tell children there are dragons. But children have always known there are dragons. Fairy…

— Anonymous

There seems to be a real taste for the fantastical these days. People like to get back into their imaginations. Maybe there's…

— Sasha Roiz

My heart beats more for a raw, average vulgar art, which doesn't live between sleepy fairy-tale moods and poetry but rather concedes…

— Max Beckmann

I think almost everybody enjoyed fairy tales when they were young, tales of witches and ogres and monsters and dragons and so…

— Stan Lee