“Fairy tales do not give the child his first idea of bogey. What fairy tales give the child is his first clear… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“There once was a woman named Story Easton who couldn't decide if she should kill herself, or eat a double cheeseburger.” — Elizabeth Leiknes Copy Share Image
Don't rush to fall in love, because even in fairy tales. The happy ending takes place on the last page. — Anurag Prakash Ray Copy Share Image
Evil is also not anything small or close to home, and not the worst; otherwise one could grow accustomed to it. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Real love is messy, and broken, and hard. Not all fairy tales and Prince Charming.” — Melody Grace Copy Share Image
“Vane’s lips tightened to suppress a smile. “Why so hostile, love?” “You whacked me on the head with a ball!” “You deserved… — Priya Ardis Copy Share Image
“Whatever ‘I AM,’ you are! You are, I AM, not me you see, but you are ‘I AM’ is what will be!”… — Chris DiSano Davenport Copy Share Image
“He was furious with himself for having lived these last days on a wish. On a lie. A kiss does not make… — Alethea Kontis 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
I am not sure how much good is done by moralising about fairy tales. This can be unsubtle - telling children that… — A. S. Byatt Copy Share Image
“We may say that the characters in fairytales are ‘good to think with’…[and that] the job of the fairytale is to show… — Brian Wicker Copy Share Image
“She had not meant to name them, but she could not help herself; and having done so she thought, Let their names… — Robin McKinley 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
“Bad in good and good in bad, see the life you could have had? Your life is the keyhole, and you are… — Chris DiSano Davenport Copy Share Image
We didn't have any books at home. Not even children's books or fairy tales. The only 'fantastic' stories came from religion class.… — Herta Muller Copy Share Image
She knows that whispers can be useful. Sometimes they contain real information. But usually they're fairy tales and lies. This is the… — Julianna Baggott Copy Share Image
“It might be noted here that Freudian analysts of fairy tales have suggested that kissing toads and frogs is symbolized fellatio. In… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
“Fairy tales in childhood are stepping stones throughout life, leading the way through trouble and trial. The value of fairy tales lies… — L.R. Knost Copy Share Image
“In England in the 19th century, advances in printing methods, combined with the rise of a prosperous middle class, engendered a booming… — Terri Windling Copy Share Image
The unblemished ideal exists only in happily-ever-after fairy tales. Ruth likes to say, "If two people agree on everything, one of them… — Billy Graham Copy Share Image
“This story was written many moons ago under an apple tree in an orchard in Kent, which is one of England's prettiest… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Sometimes I think Earth has got to be the insane asylum of the universe. . . and I'm here by computer error.… — Forrest J. Ackerman Copy Share Image
“Studies [on the origin of fairy-stories] are, however, scientific (at least in intent); they are the pursuit of folklorists or anthropologists: that… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
“I noticed him right away. No, it wasn’t his lean, rugged face. Or the dark waves of shiny hair that hung just… — Priya Ardis Copy Share Image
“I don't believe in fairy tales," she breathed. "I'd like to make you believe." He leaned over and kissed her forehead.” — Sylvain Reynard Copy Share Image
Fairy tales are more then true.Not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be… — GK Chesterton Copy Share Image
Yule—Yul log for the Christmas-fire tale-spinner—of fairy tales that can come true: Yul Brynner. — Marianne Moore Copy Share Image
Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Fairy tales to me are never happy, sweet stories. They're moral stories about overcoming the dark side and the bad. — Joe Wright Copy Share Image
“In olden times, when wishing still helped…” - The Frog King | The Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm” — Jack Zipes Copy Share Image
If fairy tales doesn't exist it doesn't matter, cause I will make my own fairy tales with modern way — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The problem with fairy tales? They teach that as long as you're beautiful you can have whatever you want. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The history of religion is the history of appalling violence, slaughter and sexual abuses, rationalised by the fairy tales of religious delusions.” — Peter B. Lockhart Copy Share Image
Once I learned, I went online and ordered every romance novel I could find. They're fairy tales for grown-ups. — Gena Showalter Copy Share Image
“Alex laughs softly. “After poetry,” he says, leaning down to kiss me, “we move on to fairy tales.” — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
When I used to read fairy-tales, I fancied that kind of thing never happened, and now here I am in the middle… — Lewis Carroll Copy Share Image
“AS ALL FAIRY TALES DO, this story begins with the simplest of words: once upon a time….” — Elizabeth Rudnick Copy Share Image
“Beware a kiss, he told her. Kisses are powerful things. You expose part of your soul.” — Ruth Frances Long Copy Share Image
“Children digest terror differently. The boy saw a horror, and that horror became the wicked witch of fairy tales, the cruel snow… — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
Among all the fairy tales I choose Shrek, because that's where I learned that even imperfect people can have happy endings. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
![“We may say that the characters in fairytales are ‘good to think with’…[and that] the job of the fairytale is to show that Why? questions cannot be answered except in one way: by telling the stories. The story does not contain the answer, it is the answer.” quote by Brian Wicker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3b7/brian-wicker-224654_fairy_we-may-say-that-the-characters-in-fairyt_2713569.jpg)
![“This story was written many moons ago under an apple tree in an orchard in Kent, which is one of England's prettiest counties . . . I had read at least twenty of the [fairy tales] when I noticed something that had never struck me before--I suppose because I had always taken it for granted. All the…” quote by Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4c4/m-m-kaye-2-174703_fairy-tale_this-story-was-written-many-moons-ago-un_337310.jpg)
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