I believe in the truth of fairy-tales more than I believe in the truth in the newspaper. — Lotte Reiniger Copy Share Image
Years ago, fairy tales all began with Once upon a time... now we know they all begin with, If I am elected. — Carolyn Warner Copy Share Image
Sleepy Hollow had a lot of action in it, even though it was a fairy-tale movie. — Colleen Atwood Copy Share Image
I am concerned with a certain way of looking at life, which was created in me by the fairy tales, but has… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We cling to our fairy tales until the price for believing in them becomes too high. — Ransom Riggs Copy Share Image
Here about the beach I wandered, nourishing a youth sublime With the fairy tales of science, and the long result of Time. — Alfred Lord Tennyson Copy Share Image
“In the fairy tales, the poor girl smiles when she becomes a princess. Right now, I don't know if I'll ever smile… — Victoria Aveyard Copy Share Image
Since I was a little kid, I did like fairy tale. I did dress up like Little Red Riding Hood. My mom… — Catherine Hardwicke Copy Share Image
Yea, and if some god shall wreck me in the wine-dark deep, even so I will endure… For already have I suffered… — Homer Copy Share Image
When I wrote the eight fairy tales that appear in 'Horse, Flower, Bird' I was working toward a completely new form of… — Kate Bernheimer Copy Share Image
In that moment, Lux felt complete for the first time. He hadn’t even realized anything was missing until he met her, but… — Amanda Hocking Copy Share Image
It is the privilege of tale-tellers to open their story in an inn, the free rendezvous of all travellers, and where the… — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
If you are a dreamer come in If you are a dreamer a wisher a liar A hoper a pray-er a magic-bean-buyer… — Shel Silverstein Copy Share Image
Assure a man that he has a soul and then frighten him with old wives' tales as to what is to become… — Theodore Dreiser Copy Share Image
'Robopocalypse' joins a proud tradition of techno-apocalyptic tales, stretching from high-flying Icarus, to Frankenstein's monster, and to many a giant radioactive creature… — Daniel H. Wilson Copy Share Image
Bullies are often people who are shy and can't make friends easily, so, as the theme of the movie 'A Bronx Tale'… — Philip Zimbardo Copy Share Image
One describes a tale best by telling the tale. You see? The way one describes a story, to oneself or to the… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Rather than teasing the buyers, we may blame the society in which they lived for setting up a situation where the purchase… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
“Stories come in all different kinds." Hester scooted closer, clearly enjoying the subject at hand. "There's tales, which are light and fluffy.… — Jonathan Auxier Copy Share Image
“Tales are people who sit on the doorstep of the house of my mind. It is cold outside and they sit waiting.… — Sherwood Anderson Copy Share Image
Neither revolution nor reformation can ultimately change a society, rather you must tell a new powerful tale, one so persuasive that it… — Ivan Illich Copy Share Image
[Fairy tales] are like a journey to the woods and the many ways you can get lost. Some people say it's not… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
Everybody sees me as a solitary entity but I long to be important to somebody It's a love of fairy tales that… — Happy Rhodes Copy Share Image
In the old days, people used to risk their lives in India or in the Americas in order to bring back products… — Claude Levi-Strauss Copy Share Image
A child gets moral notions from the fairy-tales he delights in, as do his elders from tale and verse. — Charlotte Mason Copy Share Image
This world of ours has been constructed like a superbly written novel: we pursue the tale with avidity, hoping to discover the… — Arthur Keith Copy Share Image
The language of the novel differs from the just-the-facts language of the old tales. It's robust and earthy, sometimes even baroque. — Marisa Silver Copy Share Image
Fairy tales dont tell you that dragons are real, but that they can be defeated! — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
Everything in life is arbitrary yet must be over-determined in literature. Jean McGarry knows how to tell a persuasive tale illuminating these… — Harold Bloom Copy Share Image
If both Church and fairy-tale belong to humanity, they may occasionally cross circles, without injury to either. — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
Is there anything more tedious than the often repeated tales of the old and forgetful? — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
There was a place in childhood that I remember well, And there a voice of sweetest tone bright fairy tales did tell. — Samuel Lover Copy Share Image
I have always been fascinated by the supernatural elements in stories, whether fairy tales, myths, film or literature. — Trudi Canavan Copy Share Image
That means life itself is a fairy tale. Like the characters, we all live and love and search for a happily-ever-after. — Gena Showalter Copy Share Image
I can tell you all kinds of moral tales, but fashion and reality are vaguely different. — Karl Lagerfeld Copy Share Image
Moons and Junes and Ferris wheels The dizzy dancing way you feel As every fairy tale comes real I've looked at love… — Joni Mitchell Copy Share Image
Each of us embodies, in a particular tale and clothed in the garments of time & place, universal truth and everlasting life. — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
Usually, the fairy tale ends with the girl marrying the prince. But mine started as soon as the marriage was over. — Diane von Furstenberg Copy Share Image
I tell you this as a cautionary tale: beware of getting what you want. It's bound to disappoint you. — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters. I wish… — Anonymous Copy Share Image