Best 305 quotes in «fairy tale quotes» category

Religions are the great fairy tales of conscience.

Science Fiction: fairy tales for nerds.

Science knows it doesn't know everything; otherwise, it'd stop. But just because science doesn't know everything doesn't mean you can fill in the gaps with whatever fairy tale most appeals to you.

She felt as if she had strayed into a fairy tale, as full of peril as of wonder, a place where anything could happen.

Sleepy Hollow had a lot of action in it, even though it was a fairy-tale movie.

Sure, I love fairy tales.

The biggest fairy tale is that justice works because it doesn't.

The dead have need of fairy tales too.

The fairy tale always takes place in worlds that are between, unidentifiable.

The fairy tale is in a perpetual state of becoming and alteration. To keep to one version or one translation alone is to put robin redbreast in a cage.

The idea of my life as a fairy tale is itself a fairy tale.

The great thing about fairy tales and myths is that they go beyond character. They're not about character. They're about more basic things. They're about basic fears or longings or desires or fantasies, and stuff like that.

The more one knows fairy tales the less fantastical they appear; they can be vehicles of the grimmest realism, expressing hope against all the odds with gritted teeth.

The naive was only a part of my fairy tales; humour was the real salt in them.

These are characters in a fairy tale for grown-ups. Wouldn't it be lovely? Yes.

This is a fairy tale with teeth and claws.

The Goldilocks Enigma is the idea that everything in the universe is just right for life, like the porridge in the fairy tale.

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

This isn't a fairy tale. It's New York City.

We believed the fairy tales we told our children and we loved them beyond reason even when we were green and bungling about it. We were children loving our children. And that's who we are still.

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

We have been poisoned by fairy tales.

To insist on one's place in the scheme of things and to live up to that place.To empower others in their reaching for some place in the scheme of things.To do these things is to make fairy tales come true.

Well the wedding in the words of the Archbishop of Canterbury was a fairy tale and there was a huge public impress, investment of goodwill, affection and indeed money in this Institution. It was a huge success at the time.

We no longer believe in fairy tales. But we will learn to believe in monsters

We often see a temper of the times connection, and it's just like a fairy tale. It's not true.

Whenever Disney asks if you want to do a fairy tale musical, you say yes.

Well, Company of Wolves was about that literally, about fairy tales.

...which fairy-tale princess ever chose her maid over her prince?

When fairy tales are written in the west, they're known as folklore. In the east, fairy tales are called religions.

Why can't love be a fairy tale?

Yet what keeps me from dissolving right now into a complete fairy-tale shimmer is this solid truth, a truth which has veritably built my bones over the last few years--I was not rescued by a prince; I was the administrator of my own rescue.

You once told me that I make you believe in the impossible. You make me believe in love, which I’d given up on. Thank you for proving to me it’s not just a fairy tale.

Yule—Yul log for the Christmas-fire tale-spinner—of fairy tales that can come true: Yul Brynner.

ah, life— the thing that happens to us while we’re off somewhere else blowing on dandelions & wishing ourselves into the pages of our favorite fairy tales.

All through the winter months, Rose kept up the practice of sitting by the fire with Peter and a book telling him stories. The doctor stopped to listen one afternoon out of curiosity, and heard her say, “…then the Mermaid said to the Pirate, ‘I would rather perish with the boy than go with you.’ And the Pirate said, ‘So be it,’ and sealed them both up inside the treasure chest. Then the pirate’s crew got together to lift the chest up, and with a nod from their captain, they cast the chest overboard into the sea. The chest was so heavy, it sank in the water in spite of the air inside, and in seconds it was gone from view, disappearing into the deep blue depths. If the boy and the mermaid were unable to free themselves, they would surely perish.” Peter’s eyes were wide with interest. “But- I can’t tell you what happened- you’ll have to find out next time.” She stopped and closed the book. Peter shook his head and put his hand on the book. She laughed and said, “You want to hear more now, do you?

And then they lived happily, and we who hear the story are happier still.

Are ya trying' to kill me, lass?" "Kill you? No." Maggie leaned closer, her hands drifting up and cradling his face as she rolled her hips again in one wicked pass. "Torture you? Maybe.

As in most fairy tales, there's a prince and a princess, dragons and some magic, and the feeling it gives you that anything is possible if we could stay this way forever.

As the boat drew nearer to shore, and tiny dots in the distance became seagulls, she opened the book across her lap and gazed at the beautiful black-and-white sketch of a woman and a deer side by side in the clearing of a thorny forest. And somehow, though she could not read the words, the little girl realized the she knew this picture's tale. Of a young princess who traveled a great distance across the sea to find a precious, hidden item belonging to someone she dearly loved.

As they climbed into the wagon, the widows thanked her again, and reminded her to be careful out there. There was danger in the woods, especially for a woman on her own. Fairies, demons, and shapeshifters who might take advantage of an unguarded lady.

A trail made of pine needles and thistles leads you into the green darkness. The canopy casts shadows on old oaks and dogwoods, and you think you can smell the sour breath of a witch behind you. The wind sighs like a sleeping girl, carrying her bittersweet dreams along the paths to attract any man willing to look for thorn-covered castles. A wolf darts between fallen, rotted wood; maybe he’s the one who can tell you where your heart is, how you’re still breathing.

Bedtime tales, myths, legends, fairy tales, lie the lessons and examples of what a Goddess would do.

Believe it. The world isn't all fairy tales and pixie dust. You need to grow up and face reality.

When I used to read fairy-tales, I fancied that kind of thing never happened, and now here I am in the middle of one!

With their hands clasped like children in a fairy tale, she fell asleep beside him in the dark.

Yes, hell exists. It is not a fairy tale. One indeed burns there. This hell is not at the end of life. It is here. At the beginning. Hell is what the infant must experience before he gets to us.

You perceive, do you not, that our national fairy tales reflect the inmost desires of the Briton and the Gaul?

A common question asked of Mr. Fenn was, “How old is the boy?” to which Mr. Fenn’s reply, year after year, was, “He has been somewhere between twelve and thirteen since the day I laid eyes on him.

A dream is a wish your heart makes.