Fairy Tales Quotes

Fairy Tales Quote of the day

If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales.

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

If you ever find yourself in the wrong story, leave.

I've discovered as I've grown up that life is far more complicated than you think it is when you're a kid. It isn't just a straightforward fairytale.

I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.

But wishes are only granted in fairy tales.

Fairy tales since the beginning of recorded time, and perhaps earlier, have been “a means to conquer the terrors of mankind through metaphor.

Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed.

There are many kinds of joy, but they all lead to one: the joy to be loved.

Everyone thinks of them in terms of poisoned apples and glass coffins, and forgets that they represent girls who walked into dark forests and remade them into their own reflections.

If there is one ‘constant’ in the structure and theme of the wonder tale, it is transformation.

The way to read a fairy tale is to throw yourself in.

There was once a young man who wished to gain his Heart’s Desire.

Fairy tales are experienced by their hearers and readers, not as realistic, but as symbolic poetry.

Every fairy tale had a bloody lining. Every one had teeth and claws.

The tales of Elfland do not stand or fall on their actuality but on their truthfulness, their speaking to the human condition, the longings we all have for the Faerie Other.

Yesterday's fairy tale is today's fact. The magician is only one step ahead of his audience.

It's the problem with fairy tales. From far away, they seem so perfect. But up close, they're just as complicated as real life.

Since there are thousands of fairy tales, one may safely guess that there are probably equal numbers where the courage and determination of females rescue males, and vice versa.

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.

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!

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

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

Sometimes you must shed your skin to save it.

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

And in what fairy tale would John ever be any sane person's idea of Prince Charming anyway? He was the opposite of charming. More like Prince Terrifying.

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

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.

In a utilitarian age, of all other times, it is a matter of grave importance that fairy tales should be respe

When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than any talent for abstract, positive thinking.

As she put it, she knew of nothing so ravishing as having a child whom she could whip whenever she was in a bad mood.("The Queen Fantasque")

In truth, Liesel was a prisoner too, just held by different kinds of bonds.

What Grimm fairy tale featured apiarian morphing humans?

I don't know these stories as well as they know me, I've discovered.

Why didn't my father get to give Mom the fairy tale? Why do most people fail to give each other the fairy tale?

Fairy tales were stupid. And dangerous.

at the center of every fairy tale lay a truth that gave the story its power.

Do not lose hope - what you seek will be found.

If I’m honest I have to tell you I still read fairy-tales and I like them best of all.

I have always been quite good at falling in love, but I don’t pretend to know anything about literal happily ever afters.

She’d been let down enough times to know not to believe in fairy tales.

I fear nothing when I am doing right, ' said Jack.'Then, ' said the lady in the red cap, 'you are one of those who slay giants.

Carelessness was once something to be owned. They wore it around their necks as they joined the springtime breeze while ducking in and out of the forest believing their fairy tale.

Do I look like I want to be involved in your teen love saga? Ask someone who cares.

He’s so powerful. Who knows maybe he’s advanced past eating

My name is Arianna Morganna Brittany DuLac--you can imagine why I went by the name Ryan.

Hey, be patient you'll have to kiss a few frogs before you find one that's your prince

Fairy Tales give you more than just smile. They give you Hope. Hope that at the end true love conquers all odds and slays every dragon.

Did you recently turn into a jerk or have you been one since birth?