Quotes of: Fairies Keyword

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

Alexandre Dumas

Fairy tales read before bed tend to make me dream. They're all quite violent stories, as are my dreams.

Glen Duncan

When I wrote 'The Good Fairies of New York,' I wasn't really imagining that there were fairies. Not in the way that I'm really imagining there are werewolves.

Martin Millar

The objection to fairy stories is that they tell children there are dragons, but children have always known there are dragons. Fairy stories tell children that dragons can be killed.

G.K. Chesterton

I left the fairy tales lying on the floor of the nursery, and I have not found any books so sensible since.

G.K. Chesterton

It wasn't necessarily that I wasn't a fan of fairies. Really. It wasn't that. It was that I wasn't a fan of being taken hostage by a group of fairies.

C.M. Stunich

As she sustained wound after wound...the fairy should have fallen, but instead, she danced. This was Titania, the Fairy Queen.

Hiro Mashima Fairy Tail

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

J.M. Barrie

In fairy tales, the children are saved by caring adults. We need more caring adults in the lives of our children.

Donna Shalala

Fairy tales are make believe and reality sucks, but I happen to live in both worlds.

Emily Hodson

My heart is suffering from reality,so I go to sleep and dream I'm on a fairy tale

Johncen-k.m.f Vergara

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

Eugene O'Neill

Look at Jane Austen. Her characters derive in a reasonably straight line from fairy tales.

Andrew Davies

The Islamic terror threat is so fierce, unrelenting and barbaric that we tell ourselves fairy tales about how these ruthless acts are anything but what they are: acts of war.

Monica Crowley

The French fairy tale writers were so popular and prolific that when their stories were eventually collected in the 18th century, they filled forty–one volumes of a massive publication called the . Charles Perrault is the French fairy tale writer w...

Black Swan, White Raven

It is usually assumed that children are the natural or the specially appropriate audience for fairy-stories. In describing a fairy-story which they think adults might possibly read for their own entertainment, reviewers frequently indulge in such wag...

Tolkien on Fairy-stories

Yule—Yul log for the Christmas-fire tale-spinner—of fairy tales that can come true: Yul Brynner.

Complete Poems

Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.

Coraline

Just living is not enough," said the butterfly, "one must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower.

The Complete Fairy Tales

...Myths aren’t fairy tales or legends—they’re an honest attempt to explain mysteries...

A Familiar Rain

Fairy Tales always have a happy ending.' That depends... on whether you are Rumpelstiltskin or the Queen.

Briar Rose