... the world can give you these glimpses as well as fairy tales can--the smell of rain, the dazzle of sun on… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
Fairies, black, grey, green, and white, You moonshine revellers, and shades of night, You orphan heirs of fixed destiny, Attend your office… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“There was once a fairy who created the fields and forests expressly for those in love,—in that eternal hedge-school of lovers, which… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Can we all dissappear? Can I just dissappear? Can I just live in a magical fairy-tail? If I was in a fairy-tail,Would… — Jasmine Copy Share Image
With 'Stardust', I hope what I was doing is giving 30-year-olds and 40-year-olds and 25-year-olds and 60-year-olds a chance to get the… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
My mother always seemed to me like a fairy princess: a radiant being possessed of limitless riches and power. She shone for… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
I am quite spiritual. I believed in the fairies when I was a child. I still do sort of believe in the… — Helen Mirren Copy Share Image
“It aspires to being a modernized fairy tale, in which the wonderment and joy are retained and the heartaches and nightmares are… — L. Frank Baum Copy Share Image
“All stories are lessons. Fairy tales have a moral: Stay on the path. Don't trust wolves. Don't steal things, not even things… — Holly Black Copy Share Image
Success for me is to feel happy - 80 percent of the time. That's been my goal in life. I think that… — January Jones Copy Share Image
Children delight in folk-tale and fairy lore, but the very little child loves best the story which mirrors the familiar. And it… — Maud Lindsay Copy Share Image
In the old fairy tales, often a 'moral' was tacked on at the end of the story - say, if a book… — Kate Bernheimer Copy Share Image
“By the Hospital Lane goes the 'Faeries Path.' Every evening they travel from the hill to the sea, from the sea to… — W.B. Yeats Copy Share Image
People who think they can just do a non-stop flight to mystical, non-dual thinking, to get it out without going through the… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
I don't believe in things like that - fairies or brownies or magic or anything. It's old-fashioned.' 'Well, we must be jolly… — Enid Blyton Copy Share Image
“Ultimately, the definition of both the wonder tale and the fairy tale, which derives from it, depends on the manner in which… — Jack Zipes Copy Share Image
Whoever will be free must make himself free. Freedom is no fairy gift to fall into a man's lap. What is freedom?… — Max Stirner Copy Share Image
My heart beats more for a raw, average vulgar art, which doesn't live between sleepy fairy-tale moods and poetry but rather concedes… — Max Beckmann Copy Share Image
It's like what you might call Goldilocks' dilemma in the old fairy tale. Young men see women as "less than" or "better… — Michael Kimmel Copy Share Image
As a kid, I would keep telling my younger sister that I was a fairy who had come here to spend time… — Roop Durgapal Copy Share Image
“Some stupid fairy tale charecter. Like a cheap plastic toy you'd get get by sending in the top of a lucky charms… — Maryrose Wood Copy Share Image
No, In fairy tales When to the ill-starred Prince the lady says 'I love you!' all his ugliness fades fast But I… — Edmond Rostand Copy Share Image
Mr. Robinson was a polished sort of person. He was so clean and healthy and pleased about everything that he positively shone… — Susanna Clarke Copy Share Image
“The people who live happily ever after - they don't appear in the history books. They just fade away. I reckon that's… — Sharyn McCrumb Copy Share Image
The little Plumpuppets are fairies of beds; They have nothing to do but watch sleepyheads; They turn down the sheets and they… — Christopher Morley Copy Share Image
In the 20th century, artists did a great disservice to fairies. They painted fairies in a way that was shallow and trite.… — Brian Froud Copy Share Image
Actually, I think I'm part of the last generation to grow up believing in magic and fairies and believing I had powers… — Alice Englert Copy Share Image
I have always thought that these two ways of talking, one is the fantastic, the fable, the fairy tale, and the other… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Kids delight in 'magical thinking', whether in the form of the Tooth Fairy or the saints: whether you see these as comforting… — Emma Donoghue Copy Share Image
I swore I would never get involved in my dad's life. But then he started blowing it. So I had to get… — Christopher Titus Copy Share Image
The reason that stepmothers are often the bad guy in fairy tales is because people died in childbirth, all the time, so… — Chris Weitz Copy Share Image
The objection to fairy stories is that they tell children there are dragons. But children have always known there are dragons. Fairy… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“What millions believe is often just fairy tales for children! The fabrications of the past are ridiculously accepted as the holies of… — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
The imagined beings have their insides on the outside; they are visible souls. And man as a whole, Man pitted against the… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Vlad had found himself longing to encounter those of his own kind, to travel to the streets of Elysia-that far away world,… — Heather Brewer Copy Share Image
I've had a fairy tale life. I had a perfect family, a beautiful childhood, an incredible upbringing. I lived a lot of… — John Stamos Copy Share Image
The land of fairy, where nobody gets old and godly and grave, where nobody gets old and crafty and wise, where nobody… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
Where'er ye sojourn, and whatever names Ye are or shall be called; fairies, or sylphs, Nymphs of the wood or mountain, flood… — Hartley Coleridge Copy Share Image
Fairy tales are about money, marriage, and men. They are the maps and manuals that are passed down from mothers and grandmothers… — Marina Warner Copy Share Image
The girls who come into my library adore the prettiness of fairies, theminiature-ness. But they are also nature lovers and lovers of… — Laura Amy Schlitz Copy Share Image
