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Fairy Tales Quotes by Gilbert K. Chesterton
- I am concerned with a certain way of looking at life, which was created in me by the fairy tales, but has since been meekly…
- [Fairy tales] make rivers run with wine only to make us remember, for one wild moment, that they run with water.
- 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…
- Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed.
- Fairy tales do not give the child his first idea of bogey. What fairy tales give the child is his first clear idea of the…
- I left the fairy tales lying on the floor of the nursery, and I have not found any books so sensible since.
- The wise old fairy tales never were so silly as to say that the prince and the princess lived peacefully ever afterwards. The fairy tales…
More Fairy Tales 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 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
- Even as a kid, I read 'Jung - Reflections and Individuation In Fairy Tales'; all the inner circle of Jung was a… — Pamela Anderson
- 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
- I want to talk about political and economic fairy tales. — Ronald Reagan
- American cinema is international like the fairy tales were international. — Unknown Author
- In Grimm's fairy tales, you kiss a frog and in two seconds, it becomes a prince. That is a fairy tale. In… — D. James Kennedy
- Uncertainty in the pressure of vivid hopes and fears is painful, but must be endured if we wish to live without the… — Bertrand Russell
- There's no limit to what you can dream. You expect the unexpected, you believe in magic, in fairy tales, and in possibilities.… — Cecelia Ahern