Best 305 quotes in «fairy tale quotes» category

Fairy tales and myths are forms of cultural storage for the natural history of life.

Fairy tales are my natural language. I feel at ease telling fairy tales like a fish feels in water. I am totally free.

Fairy tales lie just as much as statistics do, but sometimes you can find a grain of truth in them.

Fairy tales only happen in movies." -George Melies from The Invention of Hugo Cabret

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

Fairy-tales are nice.

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

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.

Gifts fall from heaven only in fairy tales.

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

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

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'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 among those who think that science has great beauty.

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

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

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

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

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

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

I'll be left writing picture books and fairy tales

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 love fairy tales and feel very affected by them.

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'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 not writing fairy tales or object lessons.

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 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.

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?

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 is not children only that one feeds with 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 just wasn't the fairy tale I had hoped for.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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