Fairy Quotes · Page 29

Faerie is a perilous land, and in it are pitfalls for the unwary, and dungeons for the overbold.

— J. R. R. Tolkien

I never grew up reading or fantasizing about fairy tales. I was always too busy, like, outside being a kid.

— Armie Hammer

Getting to work at Lick was like being touched by the wand of your fairy godmother.

— Sandra Faber

I really love being a human. But some days I really wish I could be a fairy.

— Jhiess Krieg

“First he sees her only in his dreams. Skin as white as moonlight. Eyes like water drowning you. Hair like spider webs.…

— Cornelia Funke

The whole world had changed. Only the fairy tales remained the same. "And they lived happily ever after,

— Lois Lowry

This makes me sad to think that this will never happen to me because fairy tale endings are only in fairy tales.

— Anonymous

She decided to be a fairy, because that way she could have wings without the responsibility of saving the world.

— Cassie

Only thin, weak thinkers despise fairy stories. Each one has a true, strange fact hidden in it, you know, which you can…

— Diana Wynne Jones

That Happily Ever After is a great way to tell stories when you're young but eventually it loses its meaning because it's…

— Marc Webb

When you're late in a fairy tale, people wind up dead. And not true-love's-kiss, glass-coffin-nap-time dead. Really dead, the kind of dead…

— Anonymous

Captain of our fairy band, Helena is here at hand, And the youth, mistook by me, Pleading for a lover's fee. Shall…

— William Shakespeare

And fairy month of waking mirth From whom our joys ensue Thou early gladder of the earth Thrice welcome here anew With…

— John Clare

Two fairies were sleeping peacefully on his bed. Dinnie was immediately depressed. He knew that he did not have enough money to…

— Martin Millar

“LISTEN, don’t believe in fairy tales! After that happy-ever-after wedding, they never tell you the rest of the story. Even if you…

— Barbara Kingsolver

The story begins with a dream, as do many of our adventures in life, and ends as all fairytales should, with laughter,love…

— Tanya Robyn Batt

Fairy tales do not give the child his first idea of bogey. What fairy tales give the child is his first clear…

— Anonymous

I love fairy tales because of their haunting beauty and magical strangeness. They are set in worlds where anything can happen. Frogs…

— Kate Forsyth

“At Bealltainn, or May Day, every effort was made to scare away the fairies, who were particularly dreaded at this season. In…

— Lewis Spence

Goldilocks [There] lived a family of bearstogether anthropomorphically in a little cottage as a nuclear family. They were very sorry about this,…

— James Finn Garner

Rage swept over her at being young, young and little, as if some evil fairy had put that spell on her. Why…

— Dawn Powell

“As Mr. R. U. Sayee has well said: 'It should be clear a priori that fairy lore must have developed as a…

— Lewis Spence

Scientists like myself merely use their gifts to show up that which already exists, and we look small compared to the artists…

— Max Perutz

I was amazed by this person who, even though she had everything, would go to feed the homeless and visit sick children…

— Mario Testino

“And they lived happily ever after" is as exciting as "Once upon a time.”

— Aphrile

You see the fairy tale - four minutes of glory at the Olympics. I thought my life would be cake after that.

— Dorothy Hamill

The naive was only a part of my fairy tales; humor was the real salt in them.

— Hans Christian Andersen

“Remember that stories are more than just words, more than fairy tales. They are magic.”

— Valya Dudycz Lupescu

There were the fairy tales my father told to me at bedtime. All the standards. I thought my father invented wolves.

— John Dufresne

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

— Charles Kingsley

Fairy's side note: Even people who don't believe in magic really do.

— Janette Rallison

Fairy tales were great because they provided a no-limits playground for my imagination, and growing up, there's nothing more exciting.

— Elliot Knight

I frowned, wondering if Trent would mind being the size of a fairy for a day. He could talk to the newest…

— Kim Harrison

You want to make money, remake 'Cinderella.' You want to move people, remake the Hippolytus and Phaedra myth.

— Mike Nichols

“Children need fairy tales because they can see only black and white.”

— Teresa Jordan

You’re just jealous of me because I’m a tap-dancing ballerina fairy princess veterinarian!

— Anonymous

In fairy tales, the children are saved by caring adults. We need more caring adults in the lives of our children.

— Donna Shalala

If I'm honest I have to tell you I still read fairy-tales and I like them best of all.

— Audrey Hepburn

Obsessed by a fairy tale, we spend our lives searching for a magic door and a lost kingdom of peace.

— Eugene O'Neill

I think people should read fairy tales, because we're hungry for a mythology that will speak to our fears.

— Sandra Cisneros