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Fairy Tale Quotes by C.S. Lewis
- Children are not deceived by fairy-tales; they are often and gravely deceived by school-stories. Adults are not deceived by science-fiction ; they can be deceived…
- 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…
- Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- Do you mean to say," asked Caspian, "that you three come from a round world (round like a ball) and you've never told me! It's…
More Fairy Tale Quotes
- Those of us who can remember our childhoods will recall how ardently we relished the moment of the bedtime story, when our… — Paul Auster
- I like Cinderella, I really do. She has a good work ethic. I appreciate a good, hard-working gal. And she likes shoes.… — Amy Adams
- I acquired a hunger for fairy tales in the dark days of blackout and blitz in the Second World War. — A. S. Byatt
- All the ancient classic fairy tales have always been scary and dark. — Helena Bonham Carter
- I was a great reader of fairy tales. I tried to read the entire fairy tale section of the library. — Beverly Cleary
- Life itself is the most wonderful fairy tale. — Hans Christian Andersen
- Every man's life is a fairy tale written by God's fingers. — Hans Christian Andersen
- Even as a kid, I read 'Jung - Reflections and Individuation In Fairy Tales'; all the inner circle of Jung was a… — Pamela Anderson
- I've had a fairy tale life. I had a perfect family, a beautiful childhood, an incredible upbringing. I lived a lot of… — John Stamos
- Sure, I love fairy tales. — Maynard James Keenan
- The old fairy tales are very, very violent, and these days I think we could do with a little less of it. — Julie Andrews
- Only the fairy tale equates changelessness with happiness...Permanence means paralysis and death. Only, in movement, with all its pain, is life. — Jacob Burckhardt