“Besides, she likes my stories. They are like fairy tales, I suppose, full of kings and queens and adventures. Ma says people… — Kristin Kladstrup Copy Share Image
“Fairy tales and folk tales are for children and childlike people, not because they are little and inconsequential, but because they are… — Anthony Esolen Copy Share Image
Don't rush into love because even in fairy tales, the happy ending takes place on the last page. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Kami'd always retold her fairy tales to make the fair maidens braver and more self-sufficient, but she had never had any real… — Sarah Rees Brennan Copy Share Image
“Perhaps I should admit on the title page that this book is "By L. Frank Baum and his correspondents," for I have… — L. Frank Baum Copy Share Image
“Mrs. Pott's beady black eyes narrowed,"Do you know how many glass slippers I have to stitch when I get home? There's a… — Sophie Avett Copy Share Image
“I fear nothing when I am doing right,' said Jack. 'Then,' said the lady in the red cap, 'you are one of… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
“More than Captain America your kids need Amelia Earhart – more than Ant Man, they need Abraham Lincoln - more than Green… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Again, if there are really no fairies, why do people believe in them, all over the world? The ancient Greeks believed, so… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
“Do you believe in 'fairy tales'?" I asked, looking up into Lissa's eyes. "What . . . What kind of fairy tales?"… — Richelle Mead Copy Share Image
I also like the whole idea of fairy tales and folk tales being a woman's domain, considered a lesser domain at the… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
Evil isn't beautiful on its own. You know?' 'Well, good people are sometimes ugly-' Blanche said at last. 'I don't know about… — Regina Doman Copy Share Image
Fairy tales, which teach a moral lesson, are about ourselves. Myth deals with forces greater than ourselves. — James Lapine Copy Share Image
He had read books, newspapers and magazines. He knew that if you ran away you sometimes met bad people who did bad… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“New Rule: You don't have to teach both sides of a debate if one side is a load of crap. President Bush… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
“I haven't finished revisiting Sleeping Beauty. As a faerie tale, that one is rife with inherent difficulties. After all, the world doesn't… — Anna Sheehan Copy Share Image
One might get the impression that I recommend a new methodology which replaces induction by counterinduction and uses a multiplicity of theories,… — Paul Feyerabend Copy Share Image
“Beneath the dream of fame, another dream, a dream of no longer dissolving and staying dissolved in the grey, faceless and insipid… — Zygmunt Bauman Copy Share Image
“Books were so simple about these things, fairy tales so straightforward! There were peasants, and then there were kings and queens. Sometimes… — Liz Braswell Copy Share Image
“The television dramas we grew up on, stories of star-crossed lovers, stories of love overcoming all obstacles, well, they’re all fairy tales,… — Anthony Marra Copy Share Image
“When you enter the woods of a fairy tale and it is night, the trees tower on either side of the path.… — Elizabeth J. Andrew Copy Share Image
The naive was only a part of my fairy tales; humor was the real salt in them. — Hans Christian Andersen Copy Share Image
As I read more and more fairy tales as an adult, I found massive collusion between their 'subjects' and those in my… — Kate Bernheimer Copy Share Image
“Les contes de fées c'est comme ça. Un matin on se réveille. On dit: "Ce n'était qu'un conte de fées..." On sourit… — Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Copy Share Image