Fairytale Quotes

I've discovered as I've grown up that life is far more complicated than you think it is when you're a kid. It isn't just a straightforward fairytale.

I foresee that the Andersen and Fairy Tale fashion will not last; none of these things away from general nature do.

I love fairytales. I like fantasy a lot, science fiction, I like magic. I like to create magic. I love magic.

I'm not always going to keep waiting for a fairytale ending.

I would compete in unicorn back riding! Why? Because we are from the same fairytale.

My first record was about childhood. There were a lot of nursery rhyme and fairytale references; it was all about being naive.

It's a fairytale so tragic there's no prince to break the spell. I don't believe in magic, but for you I will

I’ve always loved fairytales, and I’ve loved the concept of, um, some of the best parts of a lot of stories are the beginning.

Everyone who was ever told a fairytale knows what happens to women who do their own magic.

A nation that has no music and no fairytales is a tragedy.

This is a modern fairytale. No happy endings. No wind in our sails. But I can't imagine a life without. Breathless moments.

The way to read a fairy tale is to throw yourself in.

You hear people saying, 'Oh I'm so tired, I've had enough of Cannes.' How can you have enough of Cannes? It's just the best place to be, like a fairytale.

No real fairytale scared me, but Freddy Krueger did. 'Nightmare on Elm Street' scared the living hell out of me, but no fairytale. Maybe 'Hansel and Gretel' a little bit when they were walking through the forest and they met the witch. But I liked being scared, I really enjoy being scared.

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

To play someone I loved in my favourite fairytale as a kid is a total honour.

We love each other like matches in the dark. We don't talk, we catch fire instead

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

Recasting fairy tales has become a publishing sub-genre in itself, and has been done both well and to the point of entropy. More interesting are those works where the structures of fairytales are abandoned but the world of 'fairy' is imported as a delicate spice.

I love stories, I love myths, I love fairytales, I love Kafka.

Anyone who still wants to experience fairytales these days can’t afford to dither when it comes to using their brains.

In kindergarten that used to be my job, to tell them fairytales. I liked Hans Christian Andersen, and the Grimm fairy tales, all the classic fairy tales.

In a utilitarian age, of all other times, it is a matter of grave importance that fairy tales should be respected.

I always thought it hadn't influenced me very much, but I heard from many people from England that many motives from German fairytales are to be found in my books.

I didn't break into comics to write fairytales or crime comics.

The Old Testament is full of poetry, prophecies, chronicles, documentations, storytelling, fairytales.

He wasn't perfect or anything. He wasn;t your fairytale prince charming or whatever. He tried to be like that sometimes,but i liked him best when that stuff fell away.

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.

I can't just only be on reality TV and show everything when it's the fairy princess, fairytale, and then not take my hits when I have to.

The more truly we can see life as a fairytale, the more clearly the tale resolves itself into war with the dragon who is wasting fairyland.

A fairytale is not an allegory. There may be allegory in it, but it is not an allegory.

I find it ironic that happy endings now are called fairytale endings because there's nothing happy about most fairytale endings.

… for nightinggales - we know - can’t live on fairytales.

In order to be an economist these days, you have to participate in this fairytale that somehow we can recover and still make the banks rich. And it is a fairytale.

She tasted of fairytales

If I’d chosen never to the foot inside the great fairytale, I’d never have known what I’ve lost. Do you see what I’m getting at? Sometimes it’s worse for us human beings to lose something dear to us than never to have had it at all.

What's wonderful about Into The Woods is that you have a combination of all the most famous fairytales in this one story.

Were I asked, what is a fairytale? I should reply, Read Undine: that is a fairytale.

I'm just not built for fairytale surprises.

Fear can come across in absence of sharp corners, locked windows in hotel rooms, locks, passwords, security...fairytales (the type of storylines)...in fact everywhere.