Top 185 Fairies Quotes & Sayings

I have a daughter, and fairies meant a lot to her growing up.

Ballet is the fairies' baseball.

People tend to associate fairies with princesses, but they couldn't be more different. Princesses have dynastic and domestic pressures, and they get parked on glass hills. Fairies don't have families. They don't clean or cook. They sip nectar from flowers and dance by the light of the moon.

"We will wait," answered little Alice, taking Nettie's hand in hers, and looking up to the sky, "we will wait - ever constant and true - till the times have got so changed as that everything helps us out, and nothing makes us ridiculous, and the fairies have come back. We will wait - ever constant and true - till we are eighty, ninety, or one hundred. And then the fairies will send US children, and we will help them out, poor pretty little creatures, if they pretend ever so much."

I do believe in fairies, I do, I do.

There may be fairies at the bottom of the garden. There is no evidence for it, but you can't prove that there aren't any, so shouldn't we be agnostic with respect to fairies?

I think that people who can't believe in fairies aren't worth knowing.

Once, at the dreaming dawn of history -- before the world was categorized and regulated by mortal minds, before solid boundaries formed between the mortal world and any other -- fairies roamed freely among men, and the two races knew each other well. Yet the knowing was never straightforward, and the adventures that mortals and fairies had together were fraught with uncertainty, for fairies and humans were alien to each other.

Vampires, werewolves, fallen angels and fairies lurk in the shadows, their intentions far from honorable.

That era of designers being away with the fairies is gone... You've got to live in the real world.

Ninjas are silly. They are the flower fairies of gong fu and karate.

Of course, fairies are all imported in North America. We have no native fairies. The Little People do not long survive importation unless they go to California and grow large and beautiful, but haven't much flavour, like the fruit and the film stars.

Fairies: Nature's attempt to get rid of soft boys by sterilizing them.

Fairies are angels who reside very close to the Earth so that they can perform their Divine mission of protecting nature and animals.

Have you watched the fairies when the rain is done, Spreading out their little wings to dry them in the sun?

The list of things about which we strictly have to be agnostic doesn't stop at tooth fairies and celestial teapots. It is infinite. If you want to believe in a particular one of them - teapots, unicorns, or tooth fairies, Thor or Yahweh - the onus is on you to say why you believe in it. The onus is not on the rest of us to say why we do not. We who are atheists are also a-fairyists, a-teapotists, and a-unicornists, but we don't have to bother saying so.

The mysteries that cups of flowers infold And all the gorgeous sights which fairies do behold.

Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?

I've always believed in experiencing everything in life. When you walk out with blinders on, you cut yourself off from the angels and the fairies.

Again, if there are really no fairies, why do people believe in them, all over the world? The ancient Greeks believed, so did the old Egyptians, and the Hindoos, and the Red Indians, and is it likely, if there are no fairies, that so many different peoples would have seen and heard them?

We are all fairies living underneath a leaf of a lily pad.

As well might you leave the fairies to plough your land or the idle winds to sow it, as sit down and wait for freedom.

..children know such a lot now, they soon don't believe in fairies, and every time a child says, 'I don't believe in fairies,' there is a fairy somewhere that falls down dead.

So it is best to keep an open mind and be agnostic. At first sight that seems an unassailable position, at least in the weak sense of Pascal's wager. But on second thoughts it seems a cop-out, because the same could be said of Father Christmas and tooth fairies. There may be fairies at the bottom of the garden. There is no evidence for it, but you can't prove that there aren't any, so shouldn't we be agnostic with respect to fairies?

The fairies in the ancient notion of fairies, they are not positive and cute and twinkly.They can be incredibly nasty or they can be incredibly benign. It's a really interesting mythology when you dig into it.

Nobody wanted to publish a book about fairies; they said people wouldn't be interested. Luckily, I discovered Lady Cottington and her pressed fairies, which revived a huge amount of interest in fairies, so I could go ahead and do the book I wanted to do.

Every time you say you don't believe in fairies, a fairy dies.

A lot of children are interested in fairies, especially young girls, and Tinker Bell is the ueber-fairy. She's the pin-up girl of fairies. She's the ultimate fairy, but she's also got a mischievous spirit and she's very strong-willed. I think a lot of youngsters recognize themselves in Tinker Bell.

Supernatural is a dangerous and difficult word in any of its senses, looser or stricter. But to fairies it can hardly be applied, unless super is taken merely as a superlative prefix. For it is man who is, in contrast to fairies, supernatural; whereas they are natural, far more natural than he. Such is their doom.

Oh! where do fairies hide their heads, When snow lies on the hills, When frost has spoiled their mossy beds, And crystallized their rills?

There have been household gods and household saints and household fairies. I am not sure that there have yet been any factory gods or factory saints or factory fairies. I may be wrong, as I am no commericial expert, but I have not heard of them as yet.

I don't really like fairies.

Irish mythology is gorgeous, and so are the fairies, but they are very misrepresented in the U.K. They are not little creatures with wings.

To connect with the fairies... go outdoors.

There are fairies at the bottom of our garden.

"Do little pink fairies sing and dance in your world, Peabody?" "Sometimes, when it's very quiet and no one else can see."

I was fascinated by fairies when I was growing up, and I wanted to see one dreadfully.

On the tawny sands and shelves trip the pert fairies and the dapper elves.

Everytime a child says 'I don't believe in fairies' there is a a little fairy somewhere that falls down dead.

There was never a merry world since the fairies left off dancing.

the temperaments of children are often as oddly unsuited to parents as if capricious fairies had been filling cradles with changelings.

[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.

Like many air travelers, I am aware that airplanes fly aided by capricious fairies and invisible strings.

When I was a really young child, I felt like I could see fairies. I was convinced there were fairies in my grandmother's garden.

It is frightfully difficult to know much about the fairies, and almost the only thing for certain is that there are fairies wherever there are children.

I am quite spiritual. I believed in the fairies when I was a child. I still do sort of believe in the fairies. And the leprechauns. But I don't believe in God.

Fairies use flowers for their charactery.

Fairies don’t live long, but they are so little that a short time seems a good while to them

Every time a child says I don't believe in fairies there is a fairy somewhere that falls down dead.

The girls who come into my library adore the prettiness of fairies, theminiature-ness. But they are also nature lovers and lovers of adventure -- the future wild women of America. I couldn't help thinking that these little girls who love fairies deserve something lively.

I am better off with vegetables at the bottom of my garden than with all the fairies of the Midsummer Night's Dream.

I was very much provoked. Of course, I knew there are no fairies; but that needn't prevent my thinking there is.

The fairies break their dances And leave the printed lawn.

Charm is the true gift of the Fairies.

They are fairies; he that speaks to them shall die. I'll wink and couch; no man their works must eye.

In the 20th century, artists did a great disservice to fairies. They painted fairies in a way that was shallow and trite. So when people see my stuff, they suddenly realize the depth of fairies.

Of course you don't believe in fairies. You're fifteen. You think I believed in fairies at fifteen? Took me until I was at least a hundred and forty. Hundred and fifty, maybe. Anyway, he wasn't a fairy. He was a librarian. All right?

Fairies are becoming much more popular. I see fairyland as this big sea, and the tide is sometimes out.

The FlowersAll the names I know from nurse:Gardener's garters, Shepherd's purse,Bachelor's buttons, Lady's smock,And the Lady Hollyhock.Fairy places, fairy things,Fairy woods where the wild bee wings,Tiny trees for tiny dames-These must all be fairy names!Tiny woods below whose boughsShady fairies weave a house;Tiny tree-tops, rose or thyme,Where the braver fairies climb!Fair are grown-up people's trees,But the fairest woods are these;Where, if I were not so tall,I should live for good and all

Fairies have to be one thing or the other, because being so small they unfortunately have room for one feeling only at a time.