All of my work is influenced by fairy tales, and I hope my work shows Hans Christian Anderson's influence. — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
“The country people, indeed, did not always clearly distinguish between the Fairies and the dead. They called them both the 'Silent People';… — Hope Mirrlees Copy Share Image
I want to be the best mum and I want everything to be perfect - I want a fairy tale really. — Jennifer Ellison Copy Share Image
Everybody sees me as a solitary entity but I long to be important to somebody It's a love of fairy tales that… — Happy Rhodes Copy Share Image
The difference between a fairy tale and a sea tale? A fairy tale starts with "Once upon a time". A sea tale… — Edith Widder Copy Share Image
Here and there and not just in books we catch glimpses of a world of once upon a time and they lived… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
I used to have the 'Best Of Eddie Murphy' VHS tape that I wore out completely, watching it over and over again.… — Taran Killam Copy Share Image
I loved him, but love isn't enough. All the fairy tales, the romance novels, the soap operas; they're all lies. Love does… — Laurell K. Hamilton Copy Share Image
Fairies in Ireland are sometimes as big as we are, sometimes bigger, and sometimes, as I have been told, about three feet… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
We think that play and fairytales belong to childhood - how shortsighted that is! As though we would want at any time… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
In his fairy dreams of war [Thaddeus] always made conquest the sure end of his battles. — Jane Porter Copy Share Image
Have you ever observed a humming-bird moving about in an aerial dance among the flowers - a living prismatic gem.... it is… — William Henry Hudson Copy Share Image
“Some discussion of the nature and temperament of the fairies is necessary in view of its possible bearing on their origin. J.… — Lewis Spence Copy Share Image
Fairy tales and myths are forms of cultural storage for the natural history of life. — William Irwin Thompson Copy Share Image
The feather, whence the pen Was shaped that traced the lives of these good men, Dropped from an angel's wing. — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
Nothing can be more airy and beautiful than the transparent seed-globe-a fairy dome of splendid architecture. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Folk tales, fairy tales, religion, the occult - these are the things I'm most passionate about, even more than cinema. And I'm… — Robert Eggers Copy Share Image
All I'd have to do then was roll with the consequences of inviting dewinged, fanged fairies into Trent's backyard. God, they were… — Kim Harrison Copy Share Image
Faerie is a perilous land, and in it are pitfalls for the unwary, and dungeons for the overbold. — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
Spring blossoms are fairy tales, autumn leaves are tragic dramas. — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
The old tale of Sleeping Beauty might end happily in French or English, but he was in Russia, and only a fool… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
I find myself fascinated by a man who admits to enjoying fairy tales and uses the word "impinge"- barely misses a beat… — Nora Roberts Copy Share Image