Best Fairytale Sayings

142 Fairytale quotes by 118 unique authors

Obsessed by a fairy tale, we spend our lives searching for a magic door and a lost kingdom of peace. — Eugene O'Neill
You hear people saying, 'Oh I'm so tired, I've had enough of Cannes.' How can you have enough of Cannes? It's just the best place… — Marjane Satrapi
If you see the magic in a fairy tale, you can face the future. — Danielle Steel
I guess I kind of lived in a fairytale world... looking at everything through rose-colored glasses. I probably always will, to a certain extent. — Sharon Tate
Fiction is based on reality unless you're a fairytale artist. — Hunter S. Thompson
Think what you would have been now, if instead of being fed with tales and old wives' fables in childhood, you had been crammed with… — Charles Lamb
The way to read a fairy tale is to throw yourself in. — Wystan Hugh Auden
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… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
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… — C.S. Lewis
Fairy tales were not my escape from reality as a child; rather, they were my reality -- for mine was a world in which good… — Terri Windling
Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again. — C.S. Lewis
The more truly we can see life as a fairytale, the more clearly the tale resolves itself into war with the dragon who is wasting… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Anyone who still wants to experience fairytales these days can’t afford to dither when it comes to using their brains. — Robert Musil
Little princess, lovely as the dawn, well named Aurore. — Cameron Dokey
There is the great lesson of 'Beauty and the Beast,' that a thing must be loved before it is lovable. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
We love each other like matches in the dark. We don't talk, we catch fire instead — Mathias Malzieu
Women want the fairytale. Not all women, of course, but most women grow up dreaming about the kind of man who would risk everything for… — Nicholas Sparks
But all fairytales have rules, and perhaps it’s their rules that actually distinguish one fairytale from the other. These rules never need to be understood.… — Jostein Gaarder
If I’d chosen never to the foot inside the great fairytale, I’d never have known what I’ve lost. Do you see what I’m getting at?… — Jostein Gaarder
I guess I had always sort of fantasized that a guy would see me and get past the ponytail and the glasses and the giant… — Jeff Sampson
Even in merely reading a fairytale, we must let go our daylight convictions and trust ourselves to be guided by dark figures, in silence; and… — Ursula K. Le Guin
Every single morning I wake with a bang,' he said. 'It's as though the fact that I am alive is injected into me; I am… — Jostein Gaarder
There are two different categories of love. The first category is called a fairytale. The second category of love is called just another lesson — Taylor Swift
… it wasn’t pretend, I wasn’t in a fairytale or a fable. I shut my eyes and absorbed the silent whoomp that always accompanies this… — Miranda July
… for nightinggales - we know - can’t live on fairytales. — Leo Tolstoy

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