Gifts fall from heaven only in fairy tales.
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A fairy-tale life exists only in fairy tales.
ERALDO BANOVAC But wishes are only granted in fairy tales.
SIMONE ELKELES Fairy tales only happen in movies."
-George Melies
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BRIAN SELZNICK Some things were only possible in fairy tales. And not the kind of fairy tales that Baba Yagas featu...
DEBORAH BLAKE Hence, when we ask anything of God and He begins to hear us, He so often goes counter to our petitio...
MARTIN LUTHER Enchanted castle corridors are the right place to "get in" research on fairy tales - it's a fairy ta...
PENINA MEZEI When fairy tales are written in the west, they're known as folklore. In the east, fairy tales are ca...
PAUL HENDERSON The fireplace is warm nook Penina Mezei’s house in fairy tale in which the "fairy-tale-in Jukebox"...
PENINA MEZEI When fairy tales are written in the west, they're known as folklore. In the east, fairy tales ar...
PAUL HENDERSON Many people think fairy tales and retellings of fairy tales are only for children, but I'm not t...
KATE FORSYTH Fairy-tales are nice.
SYD BARRETT When they first wrote the fairy tales about love people lived to 30, in the modern world maybe we ne...
CARL WHITE Don’t look for permanent love. You will be disappointed. It is found only in novels, fairy-tales, ...
GIRDHAR JOSHI I have very happy memories of fairy tales. My mother used to take me to the library in Toronto to ch...
MIKE MYERS The words 'fairy tales' must accordingly be taken to include tales in which occurs something...
JOSEPH JACOBS Don't ask questions of fairy tales.
JEWISH FOLK SAYING Fairy tales were stupid. And dangerous.
MELODY MAYER I was a great reader of fairy tales. I tried to read the entire fairy tale section of the library: A...
BEVERLY CLEARY Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy ...
G.K. CHESTERTON Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy ...
G. K. CHESTERTON Fairy tales do not tell children that dragons exist. They already know that dragons exist. Fairy Tal...
G.K. CHESTERTON. Do not ask questions of fairy tales
JEWISH PROVERB Never trust the meaning of fairy tales.
LOSUNGEN Alecto, do you think we have fallen from heaven, or do you think we are falling towards it?
REBECCA MCNUTT I believe in music the way some people believe in fairy tales
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JULIE KAGAWA If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more inte...
ALBERT EINSTEIN the association of children and fairy-stories is an accident of our domestic history. Fairy-stories ...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN Once upon a time, when men and women hurtled through the air on metal wings, when they wore webbed f...
A.S. BYATT To most people today, the name Snow White evokes visions of dwarfs whistling as they work, and a wid...
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JANE YOLEN Religions are the great fairy tales of conscience.
GEORGE SANTAYANA Remember all fairy tales end at some point.
MELISSA DE LA CRUZ ...fairy tales, just a fancy word for lies...
CECELIA AHERN No one is too old for fairy tales.
NICK LAKE If you happen to read fairy tales, you will observe that one idea runs from one end of them to the o...
G.K. CHESTERTON Fairy tales were not my escape from reality as a child; rather, they were my reality -- for mine was...
TERRI WINDLING The way to read a fairy tale is to throw yourself in.
W.H. AUDEN When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy h...
ALBERT EINSTEIN I really feel that we're not giving children enough credit for distinguishing what's right and what'...
J.K. ROWLING If I’m honest I have to tell you I still read fairy-tales and I like them best of all.
AUDREY HEPBURN Can you not see, […] that fairy tales in their essence are quite solid and straightforward; but th...
G.K. CHESTERTON The more one knows fairy tales the less fantastical they appear; they can be vehicles of the grimmes...
MARINA WARNER I believe that our lives, just like fairy tales - the stories that have been written by us humans, t...
LUCINDA RILEY The happily ever after thing. It's great when she marries the prince or whatever and they say that. ...
MARK D. DIEHL Fairy tales represent hundreds of years of stories based on thousands of years of stories told by hu...
KATE BERNHEIMER Since there are thousands of fairy tales, one may safely guess that there are probably equal numbers...
BRUNO BETTELHEIM This is the thing about fairy tales: You have to live through them, before you get to happily ever a...
KAT HOWARD You're just so confident and self-sufficient. So many girls - especially in my world - are so insecu...
CHRIS COLFER In Miamas, fairy tales are still produced around the clock, lovingly handmade one by one, and only t...
FREDRIK BACKMAN Even when a prohibition in a fairy-story is guessed to be derived from some taboo once practised lon...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN Do people choose the art that inspires them — do they think it over, decide they might prefer the ...
ALICE HOFFMAN Creators of literary fairy tales from the 17th-century onward include writers whose works are still ...
TERRI WINDLING Fairy tales are experienced by their hearers and readers, not as realistic, but as symbolic poetry.
MAX LUTHI If there is one ‘constant’ in the structure and theme of the wonder tale, it is transformation.
JACK D. ZIPES Inevitably they find their way into the forest. It is there that they lose and find themselves. It i...
JACK D. ZIPES Think what you would have been now, if instead of being fed with tales and old wives' fables in chil...
CHARLES LAMB The fairy tale emanates from specific struggles to humanize bestial and barbaric forces, which have ...
JACK D. ZIPES At all ages, if [fantasy and myth] is used well by the author and meets the right reader, it has the...
C.S. LEWIS at the center of every fairy tale lay a truth that gave the story its power.
SUSAN WIGGS The fairy tale, which to this day is the first tutor of children because it was once the first tutor...
WALTER BENJAMIN Dear Prince, I must leave you, but I will never forget you, and next spring I will bring you back tw...
OSCAR WILDE Once upon a time fairy tales were told to audiences of young and old alike. It is only in the last c...
TERRI WINDLING Mother didn't understand that children aren't frightened by stories; that their lives are full of fa...
KATE MORTON [The fairy tale] is accused of giving children a false impression of the world they live in. But I t...
C.S. LEWIS Snowmen fall from heaven... unassembled.
ANON. For most of human history, 'literature,' both fiction and poetry, has been narrated, not written —...
ANGELA CARTER The realm of fairy-story is wide and deep and high and filled with many things: all manner of beasts...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN Fairy godmothers?” said the king dubiously. “We’ll have a time getting that past the court cou...
ROBIN MCKINLEY And the old woman who had been the prince’s nurse became nurse to the prince’s children — at l...
ANDREW LANG And then they lived happily, and we who hear the story are happier still.
ANDREW LANG I have a daughter, Hanna, and I never read fairy tales to her. But I did tell her bedtime tales and ...
JACK ZIPES [Fairy tales] make rivers run with wine only to make us remember, for one wild moment, that they run...
G.K. CHESTERTON To believe that you can contain this locally is to believe in fairy tales.
MIKE OSTERHOLM I want to talk about political and economic fairy tales
RONALD REAGAN American cinema is international like the fairy tales were international
BERNARD TAVERNIER Do you ever wonder about the fairy tales of life?
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA Fairy tales are such evil little stories for young children.
CECELIA AHERN Faithful friends are gifts from heaven: Whoever finds one has found a treasure.
SOURCE UNKNOWN I'm fascinated with the stories that we tell. Real histories become fantasies and fairy tales, moral...
KARA WALKER Fortunate are those who take the first step. Someday people will realize that men and women are capa...
PAULO COELHO She will remember your heart when men are fairy tales in books written by rabbits.
PETER S. BEAGLE One shouldn't be labelled a cynic just because one refuses to believe in fairy tales.
MARTY RUBIN I'll be left writing picture books and fairy tales.
CAROL ANN DUFFY I remember a time where Trolls were a fictitious monster from fairy tales, not arseholes on the inte...
ROBERT O'SULLIVAN I was a great reader of fairy tales. I tried to read the entire fairy tale section of the library.
BEVERLY CLEARY Fairy-tales exist and the best proof for this is our own childhood! Yes, childhood is a real fairy t...
MEHMET MURAT ILDAN People don't like the true and simple; they like fairy tales and humbug.
EDMOND DE GONCOURT I loved fairy tales as a kid, so that's where my mind gravitates.
GAIL CARSON LEVINE We cling to our fairy tales until the price for believing in them becomes too high.
RANSOM RIGGS All the ancient classic fairy tales have always been scary and dark.
HELENA BONHAM CARTER Keep your sword close and your friends closer.
KILEY KELLERMEYER Did I ever tell you the difference between a Northern fairy tale and a Southern one?" she asked him,...
ERIN MCCARTHY Children are more able to objectively synthesize a story involving vampires, monsters, or dragons du...
JOSEPH ABBRUSCATO In music, on stage and on screen, fairy tales have always been guaranteed moneymakers. It's no w...
ALETHEA KONTIS Waiting for the spark from heaven to fall.
MATTHEW ARNOLD Fairy tales since the beginning of recorded time, and perhaps earlier, have been “a means to conqu...
JACK D. ZIPES In a utilitarian age, of all other times, it is a matter of grave importance that fairy tales should...
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WALTER PATER Not the fruit of experience, but experience itself, is the end.
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WALTER PATER Great passions may give us a quickened sense of life, ecstasy and sorrow of love, the various forms ...
WALTER PATER Philosophical theories or ideas, as points of view, instruments of criticism, may help us to gather ...
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