Best Fairy Tale Quotations

467 Fairy Tale quotes by 342 unique authors

We cling to our fairy tales until the price for believing in them becomes too high. — Ransom Riggs
The film drama is the opium of the people…down with bourgeois fairy-tale scenarios…long live life as it is! — Dziga Vertov
At the centre of every fairy tale lay a truth that gave the story its power — Susan Wiggs
Story of O is a fairy tale for another world, a world where some part of me lived for a long time, a world that… — Anne Desclos
I foresee that the Andersen and Fairy Tale fashion will not last; none of these things away from general nature do. — Mary Russell Mitford
In a utilitarian age, of all other times, it is a matter of grave importance that fairy tales should be respected. — Charles Dickens
Fairy tales are experienced by their hearers and readers, not as realistic, but as symbolic poetry. — Unknown Author
Fairy-tales are nice. — Syd Barrett
All those "and they lived happily ever after" fairy tale endings need to be changed to "and they began the very hard work of making… — Unknown Author
I believe in the truth of fairy-tales more than I believe in the truth in the newspaper. — Lotte Reiniger
We have been poisoned by fairy tales. — Anais Nin
It just wasn't the fairy tale I had hoped for. — Kim Kardashian
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
The naive was only a part of my fairy tales; humor was the real salt in them. — Hans Christian Andersen
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Like a grindhouse version of Grimm's Fairy Tales, Wallwork's fiction is smart, innovative, and a hell of a lot of fun. — Carlton Mellick III

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