Fairy Stories Quotes

20 quotes by 19 authors

For a long time I found the celebrities of modern painting and poetry ridiculous. I loved absurd pictures, fanlights, stage scenery, mountebanks backcloths, inn-signs, cheap… — Arthur Rimbaud
I'm an interpreter of stories. When I perform it's like sitting down at my piano and telling fairy stories. — Nat King Cole
....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
I loved [fairy stories] so, and my mother weighed down by grief had given up telling me them. At Nohant I found Mmes. d'Ardony's and… — George Sand
Sometimes fairy stories may say best what's to be said. — C.S. Lewis
As a child, my mother told me lots of fairy stories, many her own invention. She, too, tended to reverse the norm. — Tanith Lee
As a shy kid growing up in Sheffield, I fantasized about how it would be great to be famous so I wouldn't actually have to… — Jarvis Cocker
The objection to fairy stories is that they tell children there are dragons. But children have always known there are dragons. Fairy stories tell children… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
I was always fascinated by fairy stories, fantasy, you know, demons, necromancers, gods and goddesses, everything that is out of our kin and out of… — Christopher Lee
I was born an only child in Vienna, Austria. My father found hours to sit by me by the library fire and tell fairy stories. — Hedy Lamarr
I have claimed that Escape is one of the main functions of fairy-stories, and since I do not disapprove of them, it is plain that… — J.R.R. Tolkien
Names are still magic; even Sharon, Karen, Darren, and Warren are magic to somebody somewhere. In fairy stories, naming is knowledge. When I know your… — Jeanette Winterson
There are fairy stories to be written for adults. Stories that are still in a green state. — Andre Breton
Kiran says (the shelf) is full of stories. If it is, then I like fairy stories. Fairy stories are fair. In them wishes are granted,… — Hilary McKay
Have you ever seen a child sitting on its motherâ€™s knee listening to fairy stories? As long as the child is told of cruel giants… — Selma LagerlÃ¶f
Hersesy is denying the word of God, and the word of God is much more reliably expressed in the natural world as itâ€™s revealed through… — Iain Banks
Only thin, weak thinkers despise fairy stories. Each one has a true, strange fact hidden in it, you know, which you can find if you… — Diana Wynne Jones
Nothing was easy, and sometimes she failed, and sometimes she thought that the fairy stories were right, that there must indeed be easier ways of… — Sonya Hartnett
the association of children and fairy-stories is an accident of our domestic history. Fairy-stories have in the modern lettered world been relegated to the â€œnursery,â€… — J.R.R. Tolkien
When...did it become irrational to dislike religion, any religion, even to dislike it vehemently? When did reason get redescribed as unreason? When were the fairy… — Salman Rushdie

Who Wrote These Fairy Stories Quotes

19 authors contributed a total of 20 Fairy Stories Quotes as follows: