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Fairy Tales Quotes & Sayings

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Son of a Merryweather, he's a lot stronger than he looks. — Nicki Elson

Nowhere hidden has ever turned away a goodheart guest. — Mikl Paul

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. — Ameya Agrawal

All of my work is influenced by fairy tales, and I hope my work shows Hans Christian Anderson's influence. — Sandra Cisneros

All will be well.

So say the fairy tales. — Laura Frantz

Sure. If she gets mugged, she can just flute them to death. — Seanan McGuire

I'll be left writing picture books and fairy tales. — Carol Ann Duffy

Happy endings aren't just for fairy tales and massage parlors. — Susan Gloss

In olden times, when wishing still helped...."
- The Frog King | The Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm — Jack D. Zipes

The problem with fairy tales is that most of them begin with tragedy. — Kelly Oram

If you like the fairy tales, visit the old towns! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Never mess with a girl wearing spiked heels. — Nicki Elson

There are no endings, and there are no fairy tales. But the pages keep being written. Time soldiers on. — Jill Dembowski

Fairy tales are with us day in and day out, not just in commercials, but references in the theater, movies, museums, schools, etc. — Jack Zipes

Fairy tales can come true
It can happen to you
If you're young at heart — Frank Sinatra

It is so delightful to teach those one loves! — Andrew Lang

Too many books. . . too many fairy tales led him to believe that there was something romantic in being a soldier. — Elizabeth Nelson

If you die fighting, I want to die fighting with you. — Melanie Dickerson

Life is a fantasy. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Not all who are lost are lost forever. — Jorge Enrique Ponce

I loved fairy tales as a kid, so that's where my mind gravitates. — Gail Carson Levine

Only a fairy tale calls a constant condition 'happiness'. — Jacob Burckhardt

Beyond the picket fences and the oil wells, the happy endings, and the fairy tales, is the reality of shattered lives and broken dreams. We carry on. — Tim McGraw

I think dreams can come true, but not necessarily like fairy-tales. It's not always so perfect like that. — Patrick Dempsey

We cling to our fairy tales until the price for believing in them becomes too high. — Ransom Riggs

At least that left hope for him. Except "Beauty and the Geek" wasn't exactly the proper translation of the popular fairy tale. — Kelly Moran

No one is too old for fairy tales. — Nick Lake

And, they would still be alive today ... If they hadn't died, that is — Rotraut Susanne Berner

The naive was only a part of my fairy tales; humor was the real salt in them. — Hans Christian Andersen

You're too old for fairy tales," Baasen said. — James S.A. Corey

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

We may have forgotten how to feel. Nobody is teaching us how to live happily ever after, as we've heard in fairy tales. — Yakov Smirnoff

One of the pleasures of the original 'Grimm's Fairy Tales' is how incredibly ghastly they are. The ugly sisters have their eyes pecked out by crows. — Mark Gatiss

It was not a happy ending of the sort in fairy tales, but
it was the only one we had. — Megan Hart

There were the fairy tales my father told to me at bedtime. All the standards. I thought my father invented wolves. — John Dufresne

Once upon a time, I was a little girl sick in the hospital, and my mother gave me a copy of 'Grimm's Fairy Tales' to comfort me. — Kate Forsyth

It is interesting that the worst retellings of traditional fairy tales are those that heavy-handedly take the step of making a moral point. — Isobelle Carmody

Chess is a fairy tale of 1001 blunders. — Savielly Tartakower

I'd like to extend a special thank you to my favorite sins: fairy tales and chick flicks. — Stephanie Fowers

There was once a young man who wished to gain his Heart's Desire. — Neil Gaiman

Then clear on a flute of purest gold A sweet little fairy played. And wonderful fairy tales she told and marvelous music made. — Ida Rentoul Outhwaite

When I was little, I made up my own fairy tales, and the ghostly echo of 'Once upon a time' shapes all the fiction I've ever written. — Justine Larbalestier

I found out the hard way that fairy tales and true love don't exist — Elizabeth Eulberg

Man, Grandma, what big hair you have."
"The better to style with, my dear. — Neal Shusterman

And, as in all fairy tales, there was bloodshed, there was loss. — Jennifer McMahon

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. — Albert Einstein

Sure, I love fairy tales. — Maynard James Keenan

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

Am I really standing here, conversing with a bloody unicorn? Tiffy was certain her mind had finally left the building. — T.J. Loveless

We're all just big kids. That's all we are. We are artistes. We grew up wanting to be part of the fantasy of the fairy tales and the stories. — Angelina Jolie

A child gets moral notions from the fairy-tales he delights in, as do his elders from tale and verse. — Charlotte M. Mason

Fairy tales are another kind of Bible, for those who know how to read them. — Theodora Goss

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

Keep pollinating the world with your kindness. — H. L. Balcomb

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") — Jean-Jacques Rousseau

We have been poisoned by fairy tales. — Anais Nin

A make believe life doesn't win friends and influence people. It bores the crap out of those living the dream. — Melody Carstairs

Fairytales have rules. We may never understand them but they've been hammered into our heads since infancy. Eventually, even the rebels conform. — Angela Parkhurst

Religions are the great fairy tales of conscience. — George Santayana

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

She'd been let down enough times to know not to believe in fairy tales. — Michelle Madow

That's the ideal meeting ... once upon a time, only once, unexpectedly, then never again. — Helen Oyeyemi

But after being on the run I've learned a life spent creating enemies isn't worth leading. Having allies is the best advantage in the world. — Chris Colfer

Messersmith, in a dispatch, observed that even smart, well-traveled Germans will "sit and calmly tell you the most extraordinary fairy tales. — Erik Larson

They loved fairy tales so much. If they ever got here and saw everything we've seen, I doubt they would have left. — Chris Colfer

House, and trust me, he wasn't the type to read fairy tales — J.K. Rowling

There once was a woman named Story Easton who couldn't decide if she should kill herself, or eat a double cheeseburger. — Elizabeth Leiknes

You see? In the fairy tales one does as one wants, and in reality one does what one can. — Elena Ferrante

I have always loved fairy tales, even now at the age when I am supposed to be too grown up and cynical for them. — Claire Wong

If you look at children's stories in fairy tales, they're pretty brutal. — Susanne Bier

I don't believe in fairy tales, but I believe in you and me — Natalia Kills

Dragons were a problem sometimes, but they only came on Tuesdays, so you could work around them. — Mike Carey

Fairy tales are really violent, the original ones. — Jane Levy

All the ancient classic fairy tales have always been scary and dark. — Helena Bonham Carter

My dream was to eventually make movies. To be part of the fairy tales, stories and novels I loved reading so much growing up. — Irena A. Hoffman

Do you believe in fairy tales?"
"What ... what kind of fairy tales?"
"The kind you aren't supposed to waste your life on. — Richelle Mead

In the stories, the old fairy tales, a hero comes. But all my heroes are gone or dead. No one is coming for me. — Victoria Aveyard

Fairy tales are more than true ... — Gilbert K. Chesterton

What Hans had intended to end at a simple kiss quickly escalated into something neither one of them seemed able to stop. — Nicki Elson

You are such a kind and caring man, and so sizzling hot and studly. Please, please don't go nutty on me. — Nicki Elson

He held out the pendant in the palm of his hand.
"Happy birthday, Copper," he whispered. — Sharon Lynn Fisher

I remember a time where Trolls were a fictitious monster from fairy tales, not arseholes on the internet looking for attention. — Robert O'Sullivan

None of [the books are] worth reading. There are no fairy tales, no faerie tails, no sword-swinging princesses or lightning-throwing gods. — Laurie Halse Anderson

Remember that the danger that is most to be feared is never the danger we are most afraid of. — Andrew Lang

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

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. — Soman Chainani

There is no greater achievement than being a grandfather who tells fairy tales to grandchildren. — Eraldo Banovac

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

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. — John Connolly

I acquired a hunger for fairy tales in the dark days of blackout and blitz in the Second World War. — A.S. Byatt

There are no fairy tales in the wild, no Cinderella stories. The lowly wolf that seems to rise to the top of the pack was really the alpha all along — Jodi Picoult

He met each newly exposed piece of flesh with a tender kiss, remembering how he'd dreamed of doing exactly this on the very first night he'd seen her. — Nicki Elson

Fairy tales are about money, marriage, and men. They are the maps and manuals that are passed down from mothers and grandmothers to help them survive. — Marina Warner

Trying to pump breath into a fairy tale is as arduous and tragic as ancient Greek theatre. — Terry A. O'Neal

Novels are to love as fairy tales to dreams. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

When your heart is broken, it's easier to follow rules — Betsy Cornwell

Butterflies and zebras And moonbeams and fairy tales That's all she ever thinks about Riding with the wind. — Jimi Hendrix

Fairy tales are stories of triumph and transformation and true love, all things I fervently believe in. — Kate Forsyth

Conservatives used to believe in confronting hard truths, not succumbing to comforting fairy tales. Some still do. — Fareed Zakaria

If the wishes came true, they came true in terrible ways. Wishes were dangerous things. That was the idea you got from fairy tales. — Kate DiCamillo