Best Fairy Wisdom
948 Fairy quotes by 634 unique authors
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THE REASON I CAN BE 38 AND HAVE TWO KIDS AND WEAR A BIKINI IS BECAUSE I WORK MY ASS OFF. IT'S NOT AN ACCIDENT.…
— Gwyneth Paltrow
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Unfortunately this earth is not a fairy-land, but a struggle for life, perfectly natural and therefore extremely harsh.
— Martin Bormann
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Oh! where do fairies hide their heads, When snow lies on the hills, When frost has spoiled their mossy beds, And crystallized their rills?
— Thomas Haynes Bayly
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We have been poisoned by fairy tales.
— Anais Nin
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....This world needs Utopias as it needs fairy stories. It does not matter so much where we are going, as long as we are making…
— Hendrik Willem van Loon
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It just wasn't the fairy tale I had hoped for.
— Kim Kardashian
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The unblemished ideal exists only in happily-ever-after fairy tales. Ruth likes to say, "If two people agree on everything, one of them is unnecessary." The…
— Billy Graham
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The naive was only a part of my fairy tales; humor was the real salt in them.
— Hans Christian Andersen
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Only with the Internet can a peasant I have never met hear my voice and I can learn what's on his mind. A fairy tale…
— Ai Weiwei
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I want to tell women that you need to love yourself and make yourself a priority. It's only when you are happy yourself, can you…
— Bipasha Basu
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William Shakespeare was the most remarkable storyteller that the world has ever known. Homer told of adventure and men at war, Sophocles and Tolstoy told…
— Marchette Chute
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A massive and brilliant accomplishment--the first English translation of the original Grimm brothers' fairy tales. The plain telling is that much more forceful for its…
— Donna Jo Napoli
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My heart beats more for a raw, average vulgar art, which doesn't live between sleepy fairy-tale moods and poetry but rather concedes a direct entrance…
— Max Beckmann
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The delight we experience when we allow ourselves to respond to a fairy tale, the enchantment we feel, comes not from the psychological meaning of…
— Bruno Bettelheim
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Everything that I have told you is, of course, a fairy tale. Life is magical, after all. Nothing is safe and everything changes.
— Trina Schart Hyman
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And you must tell the child the legends I told you--as my mother told them to me and her mother to her. You must tell…
— Betty Smith
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The idea that somebody else is going to swoop down and play the fairy godmother role is pretty unlikely, so why not take care of…
— Victoria Moran
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Magical, yes, but THE SNOW CHILD is also satisfyingly realistic in its depiction of 1920s homestead-era Alaska and the people who settled there, including an…
— Andromeda Romano-Lax
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Typically, the hero of the fairy tale achieves a domestic, microcosmic triumph, and the hero of myth a world-historica l, macrocosmic triumph. Whereas the former-the…
— Joseph Campbell
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We cannot, of course, disprove God, just as we can't disprove Thor, fairies, leprechauns, and the Flying Spaghetti Monster. But, like those other fantasies that…
— Richard Dawkins
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I fell in love with acting at around the age of 11, when I was drafted in to play a fairy at an amateur production…
— Zoe Tapper
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When one of Lisa's baby teeth fell out here, the tooth fairy left her 50 cents. Another tooth fell out when she was with her…
— Priscilla Presley
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Fairy damsels met in forest wide / By knights of Logres, or of Lyones, / Lancelot or Pelleas, or Pellenore.
— John Milton
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People told me I can't dress like a fairy. I say, I'm in a rock band and I cand do whatever the hell I want!
— Amy Lee
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Blind folk see the fairies. Oh, better far than we, Who miss the shining of their wings Because our eyes are filled with things We…
— Rose Fyleman
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