Fairytales Quotes
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Fairy-tales are nice.
Syd Barrett Pink Floyd -
But all fairytales have rules, and perhaps it’s their rules that actually distinguish one fairytale from the other. These rules never need to be understood. They only need to be followed. If not, what they promise won’t come true.
Jostein Gaarder
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Philosophy is the opposite of fairy tales.
Jostein Gaarder -
Even in my childhood my sympathy for the heroes in the fairy tales was always keenest at the moment when they waved their hands in farewell and turned their faces at last towards the magical adventures that stalked about impatiently awaiting their advent in the strange countries where their havens lay.
Elizabeth Bisland -
Fairytales are full of impossible tasks.
A. E. Stallings -
If I'm honest I have to tell you I still read fairy-tales and I like them best of all.
Audrey Hepburn -
Even nightingales can’t be fed on fairy tales.
Ivan Turgenev -
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?
Cate Tiernan
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You see? In the fairy tales one does as one wants, and in reality one does what one can.
Elena Ferrante -
Fairy tales, as Nell had said, are always complicated.
Nancy Atherton -
I love fairytales. I like fantasy a lot, science fiction, I like magic. I like to create magic. I love magic.
Michael Jackson -
Just as with the man in the fairy tale who turned whatever he touched into gold, with me everything is turned into newspaper clamor.
Albert Einstein -
If this were a fairy tale, that meant the dragon had been slain. Or hadn’t arrived yet.
Barry Webster -
Butterflies and zebras And moonbeams and fairy tales That's all she ever thinks about Riding with the wind.
Jimi Hendrix The Jimi Hendrix Experience
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Life isn’t easy. Love isn’t easy. Fairy tales are books we read to children. Romance novels are books that make teenagers dream of love and happily ever afters. I’m here to tell you my story. This is my diary. This is my life. This is my truth. You can’t make this shit up.
Brenda Novak -
Once upon a time, fairy tales were AWESOME!
Adam Gidwitz -
Here about the beach I wandered, nourishing a youth sublime With the fairy tales of science, and the long result of Time.
Alfred Lord Tennyson -
If you want to tell grown-up fairy tales, you have to look for the dark side.
Juan Antonio Bayona -
In a utilitarian age, of all other times, it is a matter of grave importance that fairy tales should be respected.
Charles Dickens -
You perceive, do you not, that our national fairy tales reflect the inmost desires of the Briton and the Gaul?
Rudyard Kipling
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I am not the wicked stepmother in this fairy’s tale.
Barry Webster -
People seem always actually to know, with a degree of pain that has required the comfort of fairy tales, that when you are dressed in any particular way at all, you are revealed rather than hidden.
Anne Hollander -
I wished that, for once, faery tales – real faery tales, not Disney fairy tales – would have a happy ending.
Julie Kagawa -
Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it.
Alexandre Dumas