Quotes of: Fairy-tales Keyword

No amount of wavy blond hair nor evenings spent with her plump lips applying just the right amount of pressure to his various pleasure points could make up for the rotting carcass of a soul that resided beneath all that beauty.

Hans & Greta: a Twisted Fairy Tale Novella

It was only as part of the civilizing process that storytelling developed within the aristocratic and bourgeois homes, in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries through governesses and nannies, and later in the eighteenth and the nineteenth centuri...

Spells of Enchantment: The Wondrous Fairy Tales of Western Culture

Once upon a time the fairy tales begin. But then they end and often you don't know really what has happened, what was meant to happen, you only know what you've been told, what the words suggest.

The Mammoth Book of Modern Ghost Stories

In hundreds of years of wish fulfillment, never once to the demon’s bereavement, had a wish gone unable to be yielded. It was love this day, which defeated the curse, and there in Hell there was little worse, than the dark forces of evil gone unwie...

Penny Willan and the Well: A Fairy Tale of Ode

The love of your life is out there… but they won’t just drop on your lap, nor you on theirs… so stop living an on-hold life! Go out there and experience your life, write your story, and live your fairy tale… It is on that journey that you’l...

Steve Maraboli

The wise old fairy tales never were so silly as to say that the prince and the princess lived peacefully ever afterwards. The fairy tales said that the prince and princess lived happily ever afterwards; and so they did. They lived happily, although i...

G.K. Chesterton

Fairy tales were not my escape from reality as a child; rather, they were my reality -- for mine was a world in which good and evil were not abstract concepts, and like fairy-tale heroines, no magic would save me unless I had the wit and heart and co...

Terri Windling

[...] and the pea was put in the museum, where it can still be seen, if no one has stolen it.

The Complete Fairy Tales

Let the past be content with itself, for man needs forgetfulness as well as memory

Irish Fairy Tales

Tell me your past, my beloved, for a man is his past, and is to be known by it.

Irish Fairy Tales

...everyone knows that road, the one leading out of town into a deep green expanse of pastures and old farmhouses, which at first makes it seem like you're entering a fairy tale, something sweet and old fashioned and lost in time. But, like all fairy...

First Frost

His [(Rumpelstiltskin)] feeling that his name, which is his identity, must be kept secret, or else he'll be revealed to the world as the hunchbacked, shriveled, ridiculous creature he knows himself to be. And if that happens, he'll disappear.

Spinning Straw into Gold: What Fairy Tales Reveal About the Transformations in a Woman's Life

Everything beautiful is golden and strewn with pearls. Even golden people live here. But misfortune is a dark power, a monstrous, cannibalistic giant, who is, however, vanquished, because a good woman, who happily knows how to avert disaster, stands ...

The Original Folk and Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm

General Hummel: The men of marine force recon are selected to carry out illegal operations throughout the world. When they don't come home, their families are told fairy tales about what happened to them... and denied compensation. Well, I have choke...

The Rock

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

The Complete Fairy Tales

The child intuitively comprehends that although these stories are , they are not ...

The Uses of Enchantment: The Meaning and Importance of Fairy Tales

Here and there and not just in books we catch glimpses of a world of once upon a time and they lived happily ever after, of a world where there is a wizard to give courage and a heart, an angel with a white stone that has written on it our true and s...

Telling the Truth: The Gospel as Tragedy, Comedy, and Fairy Tale

To me God’s voice and inspiration is stronger, of greater importance and authority than that of any fairy or any other spirit like creature from above or below earth. My Spirit Tales are stories based on truth and inspired by His writings. Stories ...

Spirit Tales Spirit Tale One: The Wheelwork: Don't You Know You're Not Alone!

In fairy tales the evil characters disappear or die, in reality, evil spreads while you wait for your hero on a horse, only to realise the sword to save yourself was always in your hand...

The Forgotten Tale of Larsa

Should we tolerate the blatant incorrectness of religion? Tolerating ignorance, superstition and stupidity will not provide for a healthy advancement of our society. Religion is cancer for modern thought, rationality, and even common sense.

Does God Get Diarrhea?: Flushing 4,000 Years of Lies, Myths, and Fairy Tales Down the Toilet

...I thought, with a certain amount of sorrow, how much enormous talent there must be in the world for nature simply to toss it away so arbitrarily! But nature could not care less what we think about it, and as far as talent is concerned, there is su...

The Fairy Tales of Hermann Hesse