Fairy Quote by Cecelia Ahern

Don't use that foreign word: ideals. We have the excellent native word: lies.

— Henrik Ibsen

“Don't use that exotic word "ideals". We have a good enough native word: "lies".”

— Henrik Ibsen

“Like Hitler, the President used the word lies to mean statements of fact not to his liking and presented journalism as a campaign against…

— Timothy Snyder

I also like the whole idea of fairy tales and folk tales being a woman's domain, considered a lesser domain at the time they…

— Alice Hoffman

Kami'd always retold her fairy tales to make the fair maidens braver and more self-sufficient, but she had never had any real objection to…

— Sarah Rees Brennan

Fairy tales have always been about getting through the worst of everything, the darkest and the deepest and the bloodiest of events. They are…

— Catherynne M. Valente

“Fairy tales are such evil little stories for young children. Every time I’m in a mess I expect a long-haired posh-speaking man to come…

— Cecelia Ahern

My father leaving the family shaped who I was and how I looked at the world. By the same token, my father telling me…

— Kate DiCamillo

Fairy tales read before bed tend to make me dream. They're all quite violent stories, as are my dreams.

— Glen Duncan

Here about the beach I wandered, nourishing a youth sublime With the fairy tales of science, and the long result of Time.

— Alfred Lord Tennyson

I grew up watching monster movies and horror movies, which I felt were like fairy tales and I think this always spoke to me.…

— Tim Burton

Letters crossing in the post, unfamiliar tunes heard three times in one day, the way that blows of fate descend upon the same bowed…

— Fay Weldon