Top 1200 Fairy Tales Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

If you read Grimm's fairy tales, they're absolutely terrifying.

The dead have need of fairy tales too.

Sure, I love fairy tales.

Fairy tales are more than true.

I loved fairy tales growing up.

The children know all about everything so well that it never occurs to them to play at the situations in any one of these tales, or even to read it twice over. But let them have tales of the imagination, scenes laid in other lands and other times, heroic adventures, hairbreadth escapes, delicious fairy tales in which they are never roughly pulled up by the impossible —even where all is impossible, and they know it, and yet believe.

Idle man, chases after fairy tales.

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

Fairy tales dont tell you that dragons are real, but that they can be defeated!

I was a Nancy Drew girl. Also Grimms' fairy tales.

I'll be left writing picture books and fairy tales

Why should a horror film be just a horror film? To me, The Company of Wolves is a fairy tale; it's got all those elements plus a lot more. And we know that fairy tales aren't innocent any more.

I'll be left writing picture books and fairy tales.

A parent who from his own childhood experience is convinced of the value of fairy tales will have no difficulty in answering his child's questions; but an adult who thinks these tales are only a bunch of lies had better not try telling them; he won't be able to related them in a way which would enrich the child's life.

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

Even nightingales can’t be fed on fairy tales.

Fairy tales were not my escape from reality as a child; rather, they were my reality -- for mine was a world in which good and evil were not abstract concepts, and like fairy-tale heroines, no magic would save me unless I had the wit and heart and courage to use it widely.

Comic books to me are fairy tales for grown-ups.

Fairy Tales always have a happy ending.' That depends... on whether you are Rumpelstiltskin or the Queen.

Philosophy is the opposite of fairy tales

I firmly believe in real-life fairy tales.

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

For most of human history, 'literature,' both fiction and poetry, has been narrated, not written — heard, not read. So fairy tales, folk tales, stories from the oral tradition, are all of them the most vital connection we have with the imaginations of the ordinary men and women whose labor created our world.

The fairy tale, which to this day is the first tutor of children because it was once the first tutor of mankind, secretly lives on in the story. The first true storyteller is, and will continue to be, the teller of fairy tales. Whenever good counsel was at a premium, the fairy tale had it, and where the need was greatest, its aid was nearest. This need was created by myth. The fairy tale tells us of the earliest arrangements that mankind made to shake off the nightmare which myth had placed upon its chest.

Fairy-tales are nice.

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.

Once upon a time, fairy tales were AWESOME!

If you want to make your children brilliant, tell them fairy tales. If you want to make them more brilliant, tell them more fairy tales.

I love seeing the Oscar films and epic dramas. But I'd rather watch a romantic comedy than any other kind of movie. There's something about movies like these that make you feel so good and happy and that you want to live in that world -- to be that girl and be part of the fairy tale. I have always believed in fairy tales.

I found a lot of fairy tales scary. They really didn't sit well with me.

Science Fiction: fairy tales for nerds.

It's all a quilt of fairy tales with a patch here and there of truth.

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

Religions are the great fairy tales of conscience.

It is not children only that one feeds with fairy tales.

If you want to tell grown-up fairy tales, you have to look for the dark side.

Gifts fall from heaven only in fairy tales.

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

In fairy tales there's always one person who is made for one other, and they find each other and live happily ever after. Cal was my person. I couldn't imagine anyone more perfect. Yet what kind of sick fairy tale would it be if he was the one made exactly right for me and I wasn't right for him?

Remember all fairy tales end at some point.

It is my childhood dream to have a Christian-style wedding, just like the fairy tales.

I grew up with a lot of fairy tales. And they had an essence of darkness to them.

I'm a great believer in fairy tales. I think it is important to have something you can lose yourself in.

Once upon a time fairy tales were told to audiences of young and old alike. It is only in the last century that such tales were deemed fit only for small children, stripped of much of their original complexity, sensuality, and power to frighten and delight.

“Aren’t all fairy tales based in fact? You yourself are supposed to be nothing more than a myth. Pandora’s box is a story parents read to their children at night,” she countered. “That means life itself is a fairy tale. Like the characters, we all live and love and search for a happily-ever-after.”

I love fairy tales.

I'm not writing fairy tales or object lessons.

I want to talk about political and economic fairy tales.

All the ancient classic fairy tales have always been scary and dark.

William Shakespeare was the most remarkable storyteller that the world has ever known. Homer told of adventure and men at war, Sophocles and Tolstoy told of tragedies and of people in trouble. Terence and Mark Twain told cosmic stories, Dickens told melodramatic ones, Plutarch told histories and Hans Christian Andersen told fairy tales. But Shakespeare told every kind of story – comedy, tragedy, history, melodrama, adventure, love stories and fairy tales – and each of them so well that they have become immortal. In all the world of storytelling he has become the greatest name.

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

I don't know what to think about magic and fairy tales.

But wishes are only granted in fairy tales.

Novels are to love as fairy tales to dreams.

Spring blossoms are fairy tales, autumn leaves are tragic dramas.

Folk tales, fairy tales, religion, the occult - these are the things I'm most passionate about, even more than cinema. And I'm very passionate about cinema.

We have been poisoned by fairy tales.

Armchair warriors often fail - and we've been poisoned by these fairy tales

Fairy tales are really violent, the original ones.

I love fairy tales and feel very affected by them.