Fairy Tale Quotes
467 quotes by 357 authors
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Those of us who can remember our childhoods will recall how ardently we relished the moment of the bedtime story, when our mother or father…
— Paul Auster
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I like Cinderella, I really do. She has a good work ethic. I appreciate a good, hard-working gal. And she likes shoes. The fairy tale…
— Amy Adams
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I acquired a hunger for fairy tales in the dark days of blackout and blitz in the Second World War.
— A. S. Byatt
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All the ancient classic fairy tales have always been scary and dark.
— Helena Bonham Carter
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I was a great reader of fairy tales. I tried to read the entire fairy tale section of the library.
— Beverly Cleary
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Life itself is the most wonderful fairy tale.
— Hans Christian Andersen
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Every man's life is a fairy tale written by God's fingers.
— Hans Christian Andersen
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Even as a kid, I read 'Jung - Reflections and Individuation In Fairy Tales'; all the inner circle of Jung was a real huge thing…
— Pamela Anderson
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I've had a fairy tale life. I had a perfect family, a beautiful childhood, an incredible upbringing. I lived a lot of life but a…
— John Stamos
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Sure, I love fairy tales.
— Maynard James Keenan
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The old fairy tales are very, very violent, and these days I think we could do with a little less of it.
— Julie Andrews
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Only the fairy tale equates changelessness with happiness...Permanence means paralysis and death. Only, in movement, with all its pain, is life.
— Jacob Burckhardt
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I want to talk about political and economic fairy tales.
— Ronald Reagan
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A criminal trial is like a cultural in-flight test in which society projects its own history, fears, impatience, insolence, clemency, insecurities, dreams and nightmares upon…
— Ron Franscell
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American cinema is international like the fairy tales were international.
— Bertrand Tavernier
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In Grimm's fairy tales, you kiss a frog and in two seconds, it becomes a prince. That is a fairy tale. In evolution, you kiss…
— D. James Kennedy
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Evolution is a fairy tale for grown-ups.
— Duane Gish
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Chess is a fairy tale of 1001 blunders.
— Savielly Tartakower
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Moons and Junes and Ferris wheels The dizzy dancing way you feel As every fairy tale comes real I've looked at love that way.
— Joni Mitchell
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Uncertainty in the pressure of vivid hopes and fears is painful, but must be endured if we wish to live without the support of comforting…
— Bertrand Russell
Who Wrote These Fairy Tale Quotes
357 authors contributed a total of 467 Fairy Tale Quotes, led by these top contributors: