Fairy Tale Quotes

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

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

Fairy tales are more than true.

Comic books to me are fairy tales for grown-ups.

But wishes are only granted in fairy tales.

Fairy tales since the beginning of recorded time, and perhaps earlier, have been “a means to conquer the terrors of mankind through metaphor.

Pied Piper' came to me all at once; I wanted to do a fairy-tale movie with some edge, but not 'dark,' per se.

Everything you look at can become a fairy tale and you can get a story from everything you touch.

Armchair warriors often fail - and we've been poisoned by these fairy tales

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.

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

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

We have been poisoned by fairy tales.

No, the light is too intense; we do not yet have eyes that can see all the glory God has created. But maybe someday we will have such eyes. That will be the most wonderful fairy tale of all, for we ourselves will be part of it.

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

Chess is a fairy tale of 1001 blunders.

Every constellation’s like its own fairy tale.

Of one thing be certain: if a CEO is enthused about a particularly foolish acquisition, both his internal staff and his outside advisors will come up with whatever projections are needed to justify his stance. Only in fairy tales are emperors told that they are naked.

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

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?

Evolution is a fairy tale for grown-ups.

Evolution is a fairy tale for adults

To call everything that appears illogical, fantasy, fairy tale, or chimera would be practically to admit not understanding nature.

Fairy-tales are nice.

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

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.

My heart beats more for a raw, average vulgar art, which doesn't live between sleepy fairy-tale moods and poetry but rather concedes a direct entrance to the fearful, commonplace, splendid and the average grotesque banality in life.

To hunt for symbols in a fairy tale is absolutely fatal.

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

To me, a fairy tale seems to have become reality.

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

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

The modern fairy tale ending is the reverse of the traditional one: A woman does not wait for Prince Charming to bring her happiness; she lives happily ever after only by refusing to wait for him -- or by actually rejecting him. It is those who persist in hoping for a Prince Charming who are setting themselves up for disillusionment and unhappiness.

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

There is the great lesson of 'Beauty and the Beast,' that a thing must be loved before it is lovable.

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.

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

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

The dead have need of fairy tales too.

All the ancient classic fairy tales have always been scary and dark.

Deeper meaning resides in the fairy tales told to me in my childhood than in the truth that is taught by life.

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

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

Religions are the great fairy tales of conscience.

Some fairy tales end with the girl marrying the prince... some start there.

Even nightingales can’t be fed on fairy tales.

Because the great thing about fairy tales and folk tales is that there is no authentic text. It's not like the text of Paradise Lost or James Joyce's Ulysses, and you have to adhere to that exact text.

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.