Fairies Quote by Kate Thompson

Fairies in Ireland are sometimes as big as we are, sometimes bigger, and sometimes, as I have been told, about three feet high.

— William Butler Yeats

“Some discussion of the nature and temperament of the fairies is necessary in view of its possible bearing on their origin. J. G. Campbell…

— Lewis Spence

“Faeries, like the djinn, preceded humanity as a sentient race that inhabited the earth. In Irish lore, the original fairies were the Tu-atha De…

— Rosemary Ellen Guiley

“Fairies with gossamer wings, Bring forth beauty, grace and joyful things. Fairies of the earth are caretakers of our soil, water and trees, They…

— Molly Friedenfeld

They are gorgeous. They have beautiful blue eyes and lovely dark hair - that's the typical Irish.

— Victoria Silvstedt

It is frightfully difficult to know much about the fairies, and almost the only thing for certain is that there are fairies wherever there…

— Anonymous

The fairies in the ancient notion of fairies, they are not positive and cute and twinkly.They can be incredibly nasty or they can be…

— Guillermo del Toro

My father told me fairy stories and he read to us. And my grandmother was Irish. She told us about 'the little people.' When…

— Agnes Moorehead

The Irish believed that gods, druids, poets, and others in touch with the magical world could be literal shape-shifters

— Thomas Cahill

“At Bealltainn, or May Day, every effort was made to scare away the fairies, who were particularly dreaded at this season. In the West…

— Lewis Spence

I love the Irish for their attachment to the faith and for many amiable and noble qualities, but they are deficient in good sense,…

— Orestes Brownson

There's something about the Irish that is remarkable.

— Fiona Shaw