Fairy tale Quote by Yvette Manessis Corporon

“My father quoted Shakespeare to me often and when I lay a book down with splayed pages he told me better to be cruel…

— Christine Wade

Most people, even among those who know Shakespeare well and come into real contact with his mind, are inclined to isolate and exaggerate some…

— Andrew Coyle Bradley

“As there is no evil however small but may cause him to groan under it, who has his heart undisciplined, so there is no…

— Kaiten Nukariya

“Children digest terror differently. The boy saw a horror, and that horror became the wicked witch of fairy tales, the cruel snow queen.”

— Gillian Flynn

“so that it isn't upsetting to anybody. It's something we've always known about fairy tales – they talk about incest, the Oedipus complex, about…

— Maurice Sendak

“...little girls are raised on fairy tales. No one ever tells you that sad things stay sad, some people die angry and unforgiven, and…

— Lisa Unger

“Little children gladly accept even the strangest stories that others tell them, because they lack either the context or the confidence to doubt. They…

— Orson Scott Card

“A thing that had always struck her about the child was that he seemed so collected. She had never seen him cry. And now…

— W. Somerset Maugham

Shakespeare's idea of the tragic fact is larger than this idea and goes beyond it; but it includes it, and it is worth while…

— Andrew Coyle Bradley

“Can you blame me, my dear, for looking on this attachment as a romantic folly inspired by that cursed Shakespeare who will poke his…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“Like the children in fairy stories who have seen their parents make pacts with terrifying strangers, who have discovered that our fears are based…

— Alice Munro

“So how on earth can I bring a child into the world, knowing that such sorrow lies ahead, that it is such a large…

— Anne Lamott