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467 Fairy Tale quotes by 342 unique authors

Think for a minute, darling: in fairy tales it's always the children who have the fine adventures. The mothers have to stay at home and… — Audrey Niffenegger
The fairy tale emanates from specific struggles to humanize bestial and barbaric forces, which have terrorized our minds and communities in concrete ways, threatening to… — Jack Zipes
Think what you would have been now, if instead of being fed with tales and old wives' fables in childhood, you had been crammed with… — Charles Lamb
When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than… — Albert Einstein
The way to read a fairy tale is to throw yourself in. — Wystan Hugh Auden
If you happen to read fairy tales, you will observe that one idea runs from one end of them to the other--the idea that peace… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
At all ages, if [fantasy and myth] is used well by the author and meets the right reader, it has the same power: to generalize… — C.S. Lewis
Fairy tales were not my escape from reality as a child; rather, they were my reality -- for mine was a world in which good… — Terri Windling
Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again. — C.S. Lewis
Fairy Tales always have a happy ending.' That depends... on whether you are Rumpelstiltskin or the Queen. — Jane Yolen
I wrote this story for you, but when I began it I had not realized that girls grow quicker than books. As a result you… — C.S. Lewis
They stood brow to brow, brown to white, black to black, he supporting her elbows, she playing her limp light fingers over his collarbone, and… — Vladimir Mayakovsky
If you wish for something hard enough, the fairy tales teach us, you can get it in the end. But it's hardly ever the way… — Jennifer Weiner
Life has been some combination of fairy-tale coincidence and joie de vivre and shocks of beauty together with some hurtful self-questioning. — Sylvia Plath
Only those who truly love and who are truly strong can sustain their lives as a dream. You dwell in your own enchantment. Life throws… — Ben Okri
In the fairy tale, an incomprehensible happiness rests upon an incomprehensible condition. A box is opened and all evils fly out. A word is forgotten… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
At the end of the day faith is a funny thing. It turns up when you don't really expect it. Its like one day you… — Zane Grey
The supreme adventure is being born. There we do walk suddenly into a splendid and startling trap... When we step into the family, by the… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Fairy tales had been her first experience of the magical universe, and more than once she had wondered why people ended up distancing themselves from… — Paulo Coelho
You and I who still enjoy fairy tales have less reason to wish actual childhood back. We have kept its pleasures and added some grown-up… — C.S. Lewis
Asking the proper question is the central action of transformation- in fairy tales, in analysis, and in individuation. The key question causes germination of consciousness.… — Clarissa Pinkola Estes
In mythos and fairy tales, deities and other great spirits test the hearts of humans by showing up in various forms that disguise their divinity.… — Clarissa Pinkola Estes
ROXANE: Live, for I love you! CYRANO: No, In fairy tales When to the ill-starred Prince the lady says 'I love you!' all his ugliness… — Edmond Rostand
When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed if I had been found doing so. Now that I… — C.S. Lewis
My soul has painted like the wings of butterflies, Fairy tales of yesterday will grow but never die, I can fly, my friends... — Freddie Mercury

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