Best Fairy Tale Wisdom
467 Fairy Tale quotes by 342 unique authors
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Usually, the fairy tale ends with the girl marrying the prince. But mine started as soon as the marriage was over.
— Diane von Furstenberg
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With 'Stardust', I hope what I was doing is giving 30-year-olds and 40-year-olds and 25-year-olds and 60-year-olds a chance to get the same sense of…
— Neil Gaiman
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I've learned that I want what I deny. I want someone who is crazy about me, who treats me like a princess. I want the…
— Selena Gomez
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I understand why society, especially American society, is gravitating toward fairy tales, given our economy. We've been exploring the world of witches and wizards for…
— Ginnifer Goodwin
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In kindergarten that used to be my job, to tell them fairytales. I liked Hans Christian Andersen, and the Grimm fairy tales, all the classic…
— Francis Ford Coppola
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A scientist in his laboratory is not a mere technician: he is also a child confronting natural phenomena that impress him as though they were…
— Marie Curie
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I don't know what to think about magic and fairy tales.
— Richard Dawkins
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I'm not writing fairy tales or object lessons.
— Junot Diaz
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Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it.
— Alexandre Dumas
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There must be possible a fiction which, leaving sociology and case histories to the scientists, can arrive at the truth about the human condition, here…
— Ralph Ellison
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When I went back to England after a year away, the country seemed stuck, dozing in a fairy tale, stifled by the weight of tradition.
— Brian Eno
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Why the fairy tale of Willie Mays making a brilliant World Series catch, and then dashing off to play stickball in the street with his…
— Ernie Harwell
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If I'm honest I have to tell you I still read fairy-tales and I like them best of all.
— Audrey Hepburn
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I'd imagine my wedding as a fairy tale... huge, beautiful and white.
— Paris Hilton
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The original fairy tale was about the youngest sister going into a room in the castle and finding all the bodies of the wives that…
— Alice Hoffman
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Maybe my fairy tale has a different ending than I dreamed it would. But that's OK.
— Kim Kardashian
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I am your fairy tale. Your dream. Your wishes and desires, and I am your thirst and your hunger and your food and your drink.
— Klaus Kinski
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The universe has a much greater imagination than we do, which is why the real story of the universe is far more interesting than any…
— Lawrence M. Krauss
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Hollywood always represents this big dream and fairy tale in people's minds, but to me, it's just hard work. Of course, we play fairy tale…
— Olga Kurylenko
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My mother might find a thin gold chain at the back of a drawer, wadded into an impossibly tight knot, and give it to me…
— Anne Lamott
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I have very happy memories of fairy tales. My mother used to take me to the library in Toronto to check out the fairy tales.…
— Mike Myers
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Obsessed by a fairy tale, we spend our lives searching for a magic door and a lost kingdom of peace.
— Eugene O'Neill
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I'm not a big fan of kids' movies that have this knowing snarkiness to them or this post-modern take on storytelling. I think that sails…
— John C. Reilly
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'Snow White' is an old fairy tale, so obviously the idea of vanity and obsession with youth is long-standing. With today's science, people have become…
— Julia Roberts
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To me, a fairy tale seems to have become reality.
— Nelly Sachs
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