Fairy Quote by Hans Christian Andersen

Then clear on a flute of purest gold A sweet little fairy played. And wonderful fairy tales she told and marvelous music made.

— Ida Rentoul Outhwaite

The human spirit is itself the most wonderful fairy tale that can possibly be. What a magnificent world lies enclosed within our bosoms! No…

— E. T. A. Hoffmann

“Fairy tales and folk tales are for children and childlike people, not because they are little and inconsequential, but because they are as enormous…

— Anthony Esolen

That means life itself is a fairy tale. Like the characters, we all live and love and search for a happily-ever-after.

— Gena Showalter

Farewell, farewell," said the swallow, with a heavy heart, as he left the warm countries, to fly back into Denmark. There he had a…

— Hans Christian Andersen

The naive was only a part of my fairy tales; humor was the real salt in them.

— Hans Christian Andersen

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

Once I thought fairy tales were lies or worse promises spoken yet meant to be broken intent is all. Why do grown ups feel…

— Justice Fitzgerald

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