Fairy Quotes

As a child, my mother told me lots of fairy stories, many her own invention. She, too, tended to reverse the norm.

By fairy hands their knell is rung; By forms unseen their dirge is sung.

I like Cinderella, I really do. She has a good work ethic. I appreciate a good, hard-working gal. And she likes shoes. The fairy tale is all about the shoe at the end, and I'm a big shoe girl.

I loved fairy tales when I was a kid. Grimm. The grimmer the better. I loved gruesome gothic tales and, in that respect, I liked Bible stories, because to me they were very gothic.

Fancy the happiness of Pinocchio on finding himself free! Without saying yes or no, he fled from the city and set out on the road that was to take him back to the house of the lovely Fairy.

Everytime a child says 'I don't believe in fairies' there is a a little fairy somewhere that falls down dead.

Obsessed by a fairy tale, we spend our lives searching for a magic door and a lost kingdom of peace.

All the ancient classic fairy tales have always been scary and dark.

There is no heaven or afterlife for broken-down computers; that is a fairy story for people afraid of the dark.

One of the best things about folklore and fairy tales is that the best fantasy is what you find right around the corner, in this world. That's where the old stuff came from.

My mother might find a thin gold chain at the back of a drawer, wadded into an impossibly tight knot, and give it to me to untangle. It would have a shiny, sweaty smell, and excite me: Gold chains linked you to the great fairy tales and myths, to Arabia, and India; to the great weight of the world, but lighter than a feather.

Yes, hell exists. It is not a fairy tale. One indeed burns there. This hell is not at the end of life. It is here. At the beginning. Hell is what the infant must experience before he gets to us.

I always felt and still feel that fairy tales have an emotional truth that is so deep that there are few things that really rival them.

I have that thing in my stomach where I just need to keep striving for things. In my mind, I want the fairy tale.

I'd imagine my wedding as a fairy tale... huge, beautiful and white.

People don't like the true and simple; they like fairy tales and humbug.

This is a work of fiction. All the characters in it, human and otherwise, are imaginary, excepting only certain of the fairy folk, whom it might be unwise to offend by casting doubts on their existence. Or lack thereof.

Why should we strive, with cynic frown, to knock their fairy castles down?

My joking answer to this question is that I leave a bowl of milk out on the back porch every night for the Idea Fairy. In the morning, the milk is gone and there's a brand-new shiny idea by the bowl.

I was born an only child in Vienna, Austria. My father found hours to sit by me by the library fire and tell fairy stories.

Do we believe that there is equal economic opportunity out there in the real world, right now, for each and every one of these groups? If we believed in the tooth fairy, if we believed in the Easter Bunny, we might well believe that.

I always wanted the fairy tale, but now I want someone who is a great partner.

The good historian is like the giant of the fairy tale. He knows that wherever he catches the scent of human flesh, there his quarry lies.

I have very happy memories of fairy tales. My mother used to take me to the library in Toronto to check out the fairy tales. And she was an actress, so she used to act out for me the different characters in all these fairy tales.

To me, a fairy tale seems to have become reality.

In the fairy tale the painting represents the here and now. The book is actually divided into five sections, through which the key character, the muse, leads us.

'Snow White' is an old fairy tale, so obviously the idea of vanity and obsession with youth is long-standing. With today's science, people have become crazy with trying to move their face around. It's bizarre.

When fairy tales are written in the west, they're known as folklore. In the east, fairy tales are called religions.

Well, Company of Wolves was about that literally, about fairy tales.

I think, at a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift should be curiosity.