People gave names to things so they could tell stories about them, goddam fairy tales about children who got out alive. — Sam Lipsyte Copy Share Image
God, people say 'Black Mirror' was horrible - it's nothing compared to the stuff that happens in 'Grimms' Fairy Tales.' It's mind-bending. — Charlie Brooker Copy Share Image
“I’m glad she’s so smitten with her new huntsman boyfriend and all, but venison-wurst? Gag me with a harpsichord.” — Nicki Elson Copy Share Image
“I am not a gentle shepherd like the ones in fairy tales, but a good woodsman who shares with you earth, wind,… — Pablo Neruda Copy Share Image
As for you and your heart and the things you said and didn't say, she will remember them all when men are… — Peter S. Beagle Copy Share Image
Fairy tales have a hidden power, and their appeal never ends. They're the best way to get messages across. — Michel Ocelot Copy Share Image
[Fairy tales] make rivers run with wine only to make us remember, for one wild moment, that they run with water. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Fairy tales are experienced by their hearers and readers, not as realistic, but as symbolic poetry. — Max Luthi Copy Share Image
“Rage Against the Dying Light is my fairy tale, even though it is based on a true story. For everyone knows that… — Jan Surasky Copy Share Image
I think that Shakespeare himself raided fairy tales and chronicle writers, and he always looked to people who worked in the mythic… — Kenneth Branagh Copy Share Image
The universe has a much greater imagination than we do, which is why the real story of the universe is far more… — Lawrence M. Krauss Copy Share Image
A lot of fairy tales are thinly disguised hostility raps against parents. Kids know that they can't make it on their own,… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“All reality, I decide, is a blender where hopes and dreams are mixed with fear and despair. Only in cartoons and fairy… — Holly Goldberg Sloan Copy Share Image
Its all Cinderellas fault. She put all these fairy tales into little girls heads. Now look what happened. Everyones heart is broken.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I had the view of a castle of romance inhabited by a rosy spirit, such a place as would somehow, for diversion… — Henry James Copy Share Image
There's nothing deeper than love. In fairy tales, the princesses kiss the frogs, and the frogs become princes. In real life,the princesses… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
“Yes, he knew it was crazy to be this obsessed over an encounter that had taken up maybe sixty seconds of his… — Molly Ringle Copy Share Image
“I've been very influenced by folklore, fairy tales, and folk ballads, so I love all the classic works based on these things… — Terri Windling Copy Share Image
“When Alice was younger, her father had fashioned a rough mask from evergreen needles and lake grass glued to a rotten shell… — Tracy Guzeman Copy Share Image
“We are told in fairy tales that evil always loses and good eventually will triumph. That is what makes those stories so… — John Goode Copy Share Image
Folk-lore means that the soul is sane, but that the universe is wild and full of marvels. Realism means that the world… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“Certain directors and actors were constantly preoccupied by one problem, and apparently, one only. This was connected with the so-called German greeting,… — Ernst von Salomon Copy Share Image
You know how when you were little kid and you believed in fairy tales? That fantasy of what your life would be:… — Kayla Copy Share Image
“The proclamation had been very clear: All eligible maidens were to attend. All. High or low estate, fat or thin, short or… — Auston Habershaw Copy Share Image
I never saw fairy tales as an escape or a cop-out... On the contrary, speaking for myself, it is the way to… — Lloyd Alexander Copy Share Image
“To Aiden & Ashley So that you will grow up loving fairy tales like I did.” — Chanda Hahn Copy Share Image
Look at Jane Austen. Her characters derive in a reasonably straight line from fairy tales. — Andrew Davies Copy Share Image
The old fairy tales are very, very violent, and these days I think we could do with a little less of it. — Julie Andrews Copy Share Image
Fairy tales read before bed tend to make me dream. They're all quite violent stories, as are my dreams. — Glen Duncan Copy Share Image
“Fairy tales are the only democratic institutions. All the classes have heard all the fairy tales.” — G K Chesterton Copy Share Image
“There are no endings, and there are no fairy tales. But the pages keep being written. Time soldiers on.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You and I who still enjoy fairy tales have less reason to wish actual childhood back. We have kept its pleasures and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If Im honest, I have to tell you I still read fairy tales and I like them best of all. — Bubbly Copy Share Image
Snow White has always been one of my favorite fairy tales growing up. To be able to say, "I'm going to be… — Lily Collins Copy Share Image
“Clichés are relatives of the fairy tale, and tropes aren’t bad; they go with the territory.” — Seanan McGuire Copy Share Image
“The romantic fairy tales we grew up with -- where marriage is the happy ending rather than the opening scene -- are… — Ada Calhoun Copy Share Image
“Fairy tales have a habit of ending too soon. They never show what happens afterwards when the prince and princess ride off… — Kate Morton Copy Share Image
I wish my love story just like romeo and julliet, romeo only love julliet, julliet only love romeo. — William Yap Copy Share Image
“Matt was almost completely naked. A tattered loincloth and an ugly chain with a yellow diamond were his only apparel.” — Priya Ardis Copy Share Image
“They loved fairy tales so much. If they ever got here and saw everything we've seen, I doubt they would have left.” — Chris Colfer Copy Share Image