For the world's more full of weeping than you can understand. — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
“You didn’t make her sue you, even if you did punch her at that wedding.” — Kathy Bryson Copy Share Image
Whenever Disney asks if you want to do a fairy tale musical, you say yes. — Robert Lopez Copy Share Image
Were I asked, what is a fairytale? I should reply, Read Undine: that is a fairytale. — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
Because I am still a little girl who believes in Santa and the tooth fairy and you. — Laurie Halse Anderson Copy Share Image
To call everything that appears illogical, fantasy, fairy tale, or chimera would be practically to admit not understanding nature. — Marc Chagall Copy Share Image
It's like the drag fairy coming and saying 'What would you like to do?' Um, yeah karate. — Gerard Way Copy Share Image
Soils and national characters differ, but fairy tales are the same in plot and incidents, if not in treatment. — Joseph Jacobs Copy Share Image
It wasn't until I was an adult reader that I began to fathom the influence of fairy tales on writers I was… — Kate Bernheimer Copy Share Image
“From a human point of view, out bodily existence is a fairytale. At any rate, to the inhabitants of the human world,… — CLAMP Copy Share Image
This reminds me, Godmother, to ask you a serious question. You are as wise as wise can be (having been brought up… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
In the fairy tale, an incomprehensible happiness rests upon an incomprehensible condition. A box is opened and all evils fly out. A… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We all love a bit of 'true love conquers all,' and when I started on 'Poison,' 'Charm' and 'Beauty,' that was one… — Sarah Pinborough Copy Share Image
You do not see fairies through the eyes, you see them through the heart and that took me a long time to… — Brian Froud Copy Share Image
Whether we think of Disney's blonde beauty and her pumpkin carriage or Marissa Meyer's recent recasting of 'Cinderella' as a cyborg in… — Marie Rutkoski Copy Share Image
“Somewhere, somewhere far away, deeper than every plummet sound, I heard the melody of fairyland, Feyland, that strange waltz from my dreams.… — Kailin Gow Copy Share Image
“Fairytales teach children that the world is fraught with danger, including life-threatening danger; but by being clever (always), honest (as a rule,… — J. Aleksandr Wootton Copy Share Image
“So many fairy tales were about breaking taboos, and being punished for crossing lines you shouldn't have crossed. Touching a spindle you… — Sarah Cross Copy Share Image
“As the literary fairy tale spread in France to every age group and every social class, it began to serve different functions,… — Jack Zipes Copy Share Image
“There are some doubters even in the western villages. One woman told me last Christmas that she did not believe either in… — W.B. Yeats Copy Share Image
“I'll tell you a secret about storytelling. Cinderella, Snow White, Sleeping Beauty... were not perfect in the beginning. It's only a happy… — PEACH-PIT Copy Share Image
A large section of the idling classes of England get their incomes by believing that Jesus was born of a virgin and… — Upton Sinclair Copy Share Image
the way with Ireland is that no sooner do you get away from her than the golden mists begin to close about… — Katharine Tynan Copy Share Image
“They lived happily ever after. It said so. In the book. They were the last words on the page. Happily ever after.… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image