Best 182 quotes in «fairy quotes» category

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

labels can be fun! Some people are like, "As a card-carrying bear, where I also have a little bit of fairy in me..." People have fun collaging these; there's a fun people have with their identifications. The irony of them can be lost if you're just wholeheartedly anti-identitarian.

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

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

Maybe she was being so hoity-toity because she didn't have her own fairy godmother.

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.

Nor elves, nor fays, nor magic charm, Have pow'r, or will, to work us harm; For those who dare the truth to tell, Fays, elves, and fairies, wish them well.

Of all the minor creatures of mythology, fairies are the most beautiful, the most numerous, the most memorable.

Once upon a time, fairy tales were AWESOME!

Once upon a time there was a fairy godmother, but the rest of the time there was none. This story is about one of those other times.

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

She had found him and was bringing back his thanks. Nor did she forget to mention that he had assured her that she was indeed the most beautiful fairy he had ever set eyes on.

Step to this and get shanked up I knocked out so many teeth the tooth fairy went bankrupt

The dead have need of fairy tales too.

The great thing about fairy tales and folk tales is that there is no authentic text.

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

Make a fairy tale and go and live in it.

Rachel delivered it like an official pronouncement. Like she was one of the fairies gifting Sleeping Beauty's christening: Beauty. Intelligence. Heterosexual.

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

The dances ended, all the fairy train For pinks and daisies search'd the flow'ry plain.

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.

[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.

The more you give away, the more you get back.

The myths and legends about Faerie are many and diverse, and often contradictory. Only one thing is certain - that nothing is certain. All things are possible in the land of Faerie.

The point is, how do you know the Guarantee Fairy isn't a crazy glue sniffer.

The public has become my fairy godmother.

There may be fairies, there may be elves, but God helps those who help themselves.

The surprise is on the far side." "You're sure?" "Positive." "It better not be another fairy," Seth said. "What's the matter with fairies?" "I've already seen about a billion of them and also they turned me into a walrus.

There are fairies at the bottom of our garden.

There is no social-change fairy. There is only change made by the hands of individuals.

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

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

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

We cannot, of course, disprove God, just as we can't disprove Thor, fairies, leprechauns, and the Flying Spaghetti Monster. But, like those other fantasies that we can't disprove, we can say that God is very, very improbable.

We should not expect the state to appear in the guise of an extravagant good fairy at every christening, a loquacious companion at every stage of life's journey, and the unknown mourner at every funeral.

We sometimes received - and I would read - 200 manuscripts a week. Some of them were wonderful, some were terrible; most were mediocre. It was like the gifts of the good and bad fairies.

When your daughter asks you to be a fairy for her 5th birthday party... you better be a damned fairy.

Thy loving smile will surely hail The love-gift of a fairy tale.

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.

You’re just jealous of me because I’m a tap-dancing ballerina fairy princess veterinarian!

You should treat a muse like a fairy.

All I ever wanted was to make my parents proud. What happens when I can't be proud of them?" --Shea Evenstar

All three of the English types I have mentioned can, I think, be accounted for as the results of the presence of different cultures, existing side by side in the country, and who were the creation of the folk in ages distantly removed one from another. In a word, they represent specific " strata" of folk-imagination. The most diminutive of all are very probably to be associated with a New Stone Age conception of spirits which haunted burial-mounds and rude stone monuments. We find such tiny spirits haunting the great stone circles of Brittany. The "Small People," or diminutive fairies of Cornwall, says Hunt, are believed to be "the spirits of people who inhabited Cornwall many thousands of years ago. "The spriggans, of the same area, are a minute and hirsute family of fairies" found only about the cairns, cromlechs, barrows, or detached stones, with which it is unlucky to meddle." Of these, the tiny fairies of Shakespeare, Drayton, and the Elizabethans appear to me to be the later representatives. The latter are certainly not the creation of seventeenth-century poets, as has been stated, but of the aboriginal folk of Britain.

A lot of the stories were highly suspicious, in her opinion. There was the one that ended when the two good children pushed the wicked witch into her own oven...Stories like this stopped people thinking properly, she was sure. She'd read that one and thought, Excuse me? No one has an oven big enough to get a whole person in, and what made the children think they could just walk around eating people's houses in any case? And why does some boy too stupid to know a cow is worth a lot more than five beans have the right to murder a giant and steal all his gold? Not to mention commit an act of ecological vandalism? And some girl who can't tell the difference between a wolf and her grandmother must either have been as dense as teak or come from an extremely ugly family.

And even these ((the common hill fairy, the standard elf of folk-lore) are in danger of being banished into the limbo of forgetfulness by the quite artificial fairy of juvenile literary commerce, with gauzy wing and skirts reminiscent of the ballet. It has always seemed to me extraordinary that literature has been able to create wings where none were before, for our native fairies are as wingless as ourselves. But for such an innovation the Elizabethan poets and playwrights were probably responsible - a topic which we must consider in another chapter.

And see ye not that braid braid road That lies across that lily leven? That is the path of wickedness Though some call it the road to heaven

A leprechaun did not just kill off my car in a hailstorm.

Am I the same cold, ragged damp Sara? And to think I used to pretend and pretend and wish there were fairies! The one thing I always wanted was to see a fairy story come true. I am living in a fairy story. I feel as if I might be a fairy myself, and able to turn things into anything else.

And there, on that road, that very minute, he started to play - the most lonesome music that them priests ever in their lives heard. It brought water out o' their teeth, so it did.

As Mr. R. U. Sayee has well said: 'It should be clear a priori that fairy lore must have developed as a result of modifications and accretions received in different countries and at many periods, though we must not overlook the part played by tradition in providing a mould that to some extent determines the nature of later additions.' It must also be self-evident that a great deal of confusion has been caused by the assumption that some spirit-types were fairies which in a more definite sense are certainly not of elfin provenance. In some epochs, indeed, Faerie appears to have been regarded as a species of limbo to which all 'pagan' spirits - to say nothing of defeated gods, monsters, and demons - could be banished, along with the personnel of Olympus and the rout of witchcraft. Such types, however, are usually fairly easy of detection.