Fairy Quotes

When I went back to England after a year away, the country seemed stuck, dozing in a fairy tale, stifled by the weight of tradition.

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

I've had a fairy tale life. I had a perfect family, a beautiful childhood, an incredible upbringing. I lived a lot of life but a lot of good life.

The land of literature is a fairy land to those who view it at a distance, but, like all other landscapes, the charm fades on a nearer approach, and the thorns and briars become visible.

I'll be left writing picture books and fairy tales.

Once upon a time there was a Queen who had a son so ugly and so misshapen that it was long disputed whether he had human form. A fairy who was at his birth said, however, that he would be very amiable for all that, since he would have uncommon good sense.

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

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

If you see the magic in a fairy tale, you can face the future.

The original fairy tale was about the youngest sister going into a room in the castle and finding all the bodies of the wives that came before her - she is confronted with truth, thinking about how often we think we know people and we really don't.

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

My relationship with Wilhelm and Jacob Grimm reaches far back into my childhood. I grew up with Grimm's fairy tales. I even saw a theater production of 'Tom Thumb' during Advent at the State Theater in Danzig, which my mother took me to see.

Conservatives used to believe in confronting hard truths, not succumbing to comforting fairy tales. Some still do.

All I know is that I've ruled out wearing fairy wings. When I was nine I wanted to get married in fairy wings, and now I realize that's not cool anymore.

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

Let the little fairy in you fly!

I've learned that I want what I deny. I want someone who is crazy about me, who treats me like a princess. I want the picture-perfect fairy tale stuff.

Why the fairy tale of Willie Mays making a brilliant World Series catch, and then dashing off to play stickball in the street with his teenage pals. That's baseball. So is the husky voice of a doomed Lou Gehrig saying, 'I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of this earth.'

My father leaving the family shaped who I was and how I looked at the world. By the same token, my father telling me fairy tales that he had made up shaped me profoundly, too.

You should treat a muse like a fairy.

Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it.

Gifts fall from heaven only in fairy tales.

We may have forgotten how to feel. Nobody is teaching us how to live happily ever after, as we've heard in fairy tales.

As much as I'd like to meet the tooth fairy on an evening walk, I don't really believe it can happen.

Whoever will be free must make himself free. Freedom is no fairy gift to fall into a man's lap. What is freedom? To have the will to be responsible for one's self.

As a little girl living in the English countryside, I used to go running around in the forests, creating my own fairy tale.

Nature is a book, a letter, a fairy tale (in the philosophical sense) or whatever you want to call it.

I am your fairy tale. Your dream. Your wishes and desires, and I am your thirst and your hunger and your food and your drink.

Dragons and bridges are very much something out of fairy tales and fantasy.

I'm an interpreter of stories. When I perform it's like sitting down at my piano and telling fairy stories.