Fairy Quotes

You can do more with a castle in a story than with the best cardboard castle that ever stood on a nursery table.

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

Think what you would have been now, if instead of being fed with tales and old wives' fables in childhood, you had been crammed with geography and natural history!

He was the most ordinary man in all the world, and yet in her memory he'd become luminous, like the prince in a fairy tale.

Once I learned, I went online and ordered every romance novel I could find. They're fairy tales for grown-ups.

The sound of the pages turning was the sound of magic. The dry liquid feel of paper under fingertips was what magic felt like.

If you are a guild, take care of your friends. That is all I have to say.

Once upon a time – for that is how all stories should begin – there was a boy who lost his mother.

My feelings for Raphael are mine, and mine alone. I loved him, and that is all anyone needs to know. The rest is no business of any man's.

Imagine having a mother who worries that you read too much. The question is, what is it that's supposed to happen to people who read too much? How can you tell when someone's crossed the line.

But most dragons seem to have interesting personalities--besides probably having quite good reasons for what they do, if only one could understand them

Oh No! My wings are effed up!

I'm romantically inclined. No human being on Earth is not attracted to other people. There is no fairy tale that they only have eyes for you. You just choose to act on it or not.

According to a recent survey, kids are receiving an average of 40 cents less from the tooth fairy. That's right, the economy is so bad that even make-believe people are feeling the pinch.

One of my favourite messages about The Pirate Fairy is that the story is about appreciating your own talents.

We love the kindly wind and hail, The jolly thunderbolt, We watch in glee the fairy trail Of ampere, watt, and volt.

The old tale of Sleeping Beauty might end happily in French or English, but he was in Russia, and only a fool would want to live through the Russian version of any fairy tale.

If you listen very carefully, you can hear the good fairy come in the night and leave our assignment for tomorrow.

Mademoiselle is a fairy," he said, whispering mysteriously.

Whenever Disney asks if you want to do a fairy tale musical, you say yes.

The loveliest fairy in the world; and her name is Mrs Do as you would bed one by.

[The] great fairy Science, who is likely to be queen of all the fairies for many a year to come, can only do you good, and never do you harm.

Gina always believed there was magic in the world. "But it doesn't work in the way it does in fairy tales," she told me. "It doesn't save us. We have to save ourselves.

People gave names to things so they could tell stories about them, goddam fairy tales about children who got out alive.

Sweet memory, wafted by the gentle gale, Oft up the stream of Time I turn my sail, To view the fairy haunts of long-lost hours, Blest with far greener shades, far fresher flowers.

What had set the fae world off? I'd never seen one. Now you couldn't throw a trowel without hitting a fairy.

Since I was a little kid, I did like fairy tale. I did dress up like Little Red Riding Hood. My mom had to make me a cape.

With their hands clasped like children in a fairy tale, she fell asleep beside him in the dark.

We often see a temper of the times connection, and it's just like a fairy tale. It's not true.

That's the fairy tale. You meet, you fall in love, you kiss, and neither of you is revolted by it. You get married and have kids and live happily ever after.

Like a grindhouse version of Grimm's Fairy Tales, Wallwork's fiction is smart, innovative, and a hell of a lot of fun.

So maybe it wasn't the fairy tale. But those stories weren't real anyway. Mine were.

Sometimes fairy stories may say best what's to be said.

And truth severe, by fairy fiction drest.

At the centre of every fairy tale lay a truth that gave the story its power

Oh yeah. That's why. Like a fairy tale. I was marrying the Prince. I just happened to be in love with the pauper.

Well, Henry, you can cease frowning at me. If I am a magician, I am a very indifferent one. Other adepts summon up fairy-spirits and long-dead kings. I appear to have conjured the spirit of a banker.

I don't really like fairies.

Here about the beach I wandered, nourishing a youth sublime With the fairy tales of science, and the long result of Time.

So there are different examples of fairy tales, and sometimes I believe in them and sometimes I don't.

We get divorce, we get conned, someone we love dies, or we can't find anybody to love us or somebody breaks our heart and we realize this fairy tale ain't fair. So we suffer.

I'm fairy godmothering a girl who sounds like something you put up in the rain.

A real flame of love is a subtle thing. It burns as a will-o'-the-wisp, dancing onward to fairy lands of delight. It roars as a furnace. Too often jealousy is the quality upon which it feeds.

Captain of our fairy band, Helena is here at hand, And the youth, mistook by me, Pleading for a lover's fee. Shall we their fond pageant see? Lord, what fools these mortals be!

I want to be the best mum and I want everything to be perfect - I want a fairy tale really.

The world of religion isn't a logical world; that's why children like it. It's a world of worked-out fantasies, very similar to children's stories or fairy tales.

The iron tongue of Midnight hath told twelve lovers, to bed; 'tis almost fairy time. I fear we shall outstep the coming morn as much as we this night over-watch'd.

Fairies use flowers for their charactery.

Only with the Internet can a peasant I have never met hear my voice and I can learn what's on his mind. A fairy tale has come true.

This isn't a fairy tale. It's New York City.