Best 305 quotes in «fairy tale quotes» category

Gifts fall from heaven only in fairy tales.

Gina always believed there was magic in the world. "But it doesn't work in the way it does in fairy tales," she told me. "It doesn't save us. We have to save ourselves.

Give Mozart a fairy tale and he creates without effort an immortal masterpiece.

Honesty is a rare commodity in a palace, and that is why so many fairy-tale marriages end up on the rocks.

How could you do nothing to him, if you fought so hard?” she asked. “I’m lust and he’s wrath!” he yelled. “I’m a lover, he’s a fighter!” Virtue - A Fairy Tale

I always felt and still feel that fairy tales have an emotional truth that is so deep that there are few things that really rival them

I always wanted the fairy tale, but now I want someone who is a great partner.

Having a magical element in a realistic setting without explanation seems to me to be the hallmark of fairy tales, which present us with a kind of metaphorical look at some aspect of our lives.

I'd been right from the start - soulmates were for fairy tales. In real life, people were just people, and they couldn't be trusted.

I am very much interested in fairy tales. I guess that most of the films I like to do have this kind of aspect.

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

I do not know the meaning of my sadness; there is an old fairy tale that I cannot get out of my mind.

I am among those who think that science has great beauty.

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

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

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

I don't think anything is as magical as a fairy tale experience by a child.

I like being scared, so I've always liked fairy tales because they're kind of creepy.

I have to believe in fairy tales and I have to believe in love.

I loved fairy tales when I was a kid. Grimm. The grimmer the better. I loved gruesome gothic tales and, in that respect, I liked Bible stories, because to me they were very gothic.

I have always been fascinated by the supernatural elements in stories, whether fairy tales, myths, film or literature.

I'm not born again, I'm not Kabbalah, God forbid, but I did have an experience hitting 30 that I needed to lean on something that assured me that everything is going to be okay. I had to regain a lot of my belief in fairy tales, in happy endings.

I love fairy tales and feel very affected by them.

I'm not sure if it's fair to call it a "fairy tale," but I really loved Mulan, the Disney film. It was my favorite. I guess it's not really a fairy tale, but you do get Eddie Murphy as a dragon.

I'm so excited to see 'Horns' because it's so many different genres in one film. It's a sci-fi, it's a love story, it's a horror movie, it's a fairy tale.

In college, I became interested in folk tales and fairy tales. Gradually I became more and more interested in the underlying meaning of it all and the possibility of the reality of real fairies.

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?

In the fairy tale you mentioned last night, I would probably be the villain. But it's possible the villain would treat you far better than the prince would have.

I'm not writing fairy tales or object lessons.

I'll be left writing picture books and fairy tales

I think the big thing is the fairy tale. It's taking old folk fairy tales and retelling them in modern day. I think it's just taking you out of everyday life, and everyone loves a good fairy tale.

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

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

It just wasn't the fairy tale I had hoped for.

It could have been like a fairy tale. But fairy tales aren't real. Things don't work like that. There's a price for everything.

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.

I was a great reader of fairy tales. I tried to read the entire fairy tale section of the library.

I wished that, for once, faery tales – real faery tales, not Disney fairy tales – would have a happy ending.

I've always loved fairy tales and magic - especially twisting them on their ears and poor trolls have always had such a bad rep.

Kami'd always retold her fairy tales to make the fair maidens braver and more self-sufficient, but she had never had any real objection to the handsome prince.

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

It was not once upon a time, but a certain time in history, before anyone knew what was happening, that Walt Disney cast a spell on the fairy tale, and he has held it captive ever since.

Just as with the man in the fairy tale who turned whatever he touched into gold, with me everything is turned into newspaper clamor.

Life isn't a fairy tale, and happy endings are few and far between

Life to me is a bit of a (Brothers) Grimm fairy tale.

Life is a fairy tale. Live it with wonder and amazement.

Like a magpie, I am a scavenger of shiny things: fairy tales, dead languages, weird folk beliefs, fascinating religions, and more.

Life has been some combination of fairy-tale coincidence and joie de vivre and shocks of beauty together with some hurtful self-questioning.

Mother didn't understand that children aren't frightened by stories; that their lives are full of far more frightening things than those contained in fairy tales.

Like a grindhouse version of Grimm's Fairy Tales, Wallwork's fiction is smart, innovative, and a hell of a lot of fun.