Fairy Quote by Joseph Jacobs

Fairy tales are more than true.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

Fairy tales are really violent, the original ones.

— Jane Levy

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

Facts are the soil from which the story grows. Imagination is a last resort.

— Dorothy Dunnett

Fairy tales are experienced by their hearers and readers, not as realistic, but as symbolic poetry.

— Max Luthi

As I read more and more fairy tales as an adult, I found massive collusion between their 'subjects' and those in my fiction: childhood,…

— Kate Bernheimer

Fairy tales are about money, marriage, and men. They are the maps and manuals that are passed down from mothers and grandmothers to help…

— Marina Warner

“Over the last three centuries our historical reception of folk and fairy tales has been so negatively twisted by aesthetic norms, educational standards and…

— Jack Zipes

The narrative of so many fairy tales are timeless in so many different cultures, and they have been since the dawn of man. They…

— Lily Cole

Fairy tales, which teach a moral lesson, are about ourselves. Myth deals with forces greater than ourselves.

— James Lapine

“The literary fairy tale became an acceptable social symbolic form through which conventionalized motifs, characters, and plots were selected, composed, arranged, and rearranged to…

— Jack Zipes

Fairy-tales are nice.

— Syd Barrett