Best Fairy Tale Proverbs
467 Fairy Tale quotes by 342 unique authors
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I didn't like fairy tales when I was younger. I found a lot of fairy tales scary. They really didn't sit well with me.
— Amanda Seyfried
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In fairy tales, the children are saved by caring adults. We need more caring adults in the lives of our children.
— Donna Shalala
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We may have forgotten how to feel. Nobody is teaching us how to live happily ever after, as we've heard in fairy tales.
— Yakov Smirnoff
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If you see the magic in a fairy tale, you can face the future.
— Danielle Steel
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I am completely fascinated by the differences and comparisons between real life and fairy tales because we're raised as little girls to think that we're…
— Taylor Swift
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In fairy tales the bad guy is very easy to spot. The bad guy is always wearing a black cape so you always know who…
— Taylor Swift
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I loved fairy tales when I was a kid. Grimm. The grimmer the better. I loved gruesome gothic tales and, in that respect, I liked…
— Amy Tan
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I'm not born again, I'm not Kabbalah, God forbid, but I did have an experience hitting 30 that I needed to lean on something that…
— Rufus Wainwright
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I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.
— Mae West
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Fairy tales to me are never happy, sweet stories. They're moral stories about overcoming the dark side and the bad.
— Joe Wright
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Conservatives used to believe in confronting hard truths, not succumbing to comforting fairy tales. Some still do.
— Fareed Zakaria
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Sometimes you have to censor books. When I read 'Peter Rabbit,' I skip the part about Peter's father ending up in one of Mrs. McGregor's…
— Regina Brett
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Great heroes need great sorrows and burdens, or half their greatness goes unnoticed. It is all part of the fairy tale.
— Peter S. Beagle
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Deeper meaning resides in the fairy tales told to me in my childhood than in the truth that is taught by life.
— Friedrich Schiller
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Butterflies and zebras And moonbeams and fairy tales That's all she ever thinks about Riding with the wind.
— Jimi Hendrix
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This is true happiness: to have no ambition and to work like a horse as if you had every ambition. To live far from men,…
— Nikos Kazantzakis
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If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales.
— Albert Einstein
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Okay. I wish for world peace,” Weetzie said. “I am sorry,” the genie said. “I cant grant that wish. Its out of my league.” “Then…
— Francesca Lia Block
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Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.
— Neil Gaiman
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This was not a fairy-tale castle and there was no such thing as a fairy-tale ending, but sometimes you could threaten to kick the handsome…
— Terry Pratchett
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Thy loving smile will surely hail The love-gift of a fairy tale.
— Lewis Carroll
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Fairy tale does not deny the existence of sorrow and failure: the possibility of these is necessary to the joy of deliverance. It denies (in…
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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[Fairy tales] make rivers run with wine only to make us remember, for one wild moment, that they run with water.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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At every moment of our lives, we all have one foot in a fairy tale and the other in the abyss.
— Paulo Coelho
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Fear isn't so difficult to understand. After all, weren't we all frightened as children? Nothing has changed since Little Red Riding Hood faced the big…
— Alfred Hitchcock
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