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Quotes About Fairytales

In fairytales, when the mask came off, the handsome prince still loved the girl, no matter what -and that alone would turn her into a princess.
~ Jodi Picoult
I loved him, but love isn't enough. All the fairy tales, the romance novels, the soap operas; they're all lies. Love does not conquer all.
~ Laurell K. Hamilton
Reading fairytales to children expands their imaginations.
~ Robert Lepage
Those of us who believe in princesses are often laughed at. But I believe the world needs princesses and dukes and queens and kings. We need people who glitter and shine and make a room silent with their entrance. We need them the same way we need ice cream and soccer and music and stories. Oh, how we need stories.
~ Beverly Bartlett
Baba Yaga: "... What are his powers" Mirror on the wall: "He reads
~ Bill Willingham
Every person's life is a fairytale written by God's fingers.
~ Hans Christian Andersen
Hans Christian Andersen
~ therefore, when she
Eines Nachts, als sie in ihrem hübschen Bettchen lag, kam durch das Fenster, in dem eine Scheibe zerbrochen war, eine häßliche Kröte hereingehüpft; sie hüpfte gerade auf den Tisch hernieder, wo Däumelieschen lag und unter dem roten Rosenblatte schlief.
~ Hans Christian Andersen
Hans Christian Andersen
~ But you are a
Hans Christian Andersen
~ here comes another
Hans Christian Andersen
~ Däumelieschen.
La vida de cada hombre es un cuento de hadas escrito por la mano de Dios.
~ Hans Christian Andersen
came to anything, very remarkable; and there they are for you. So saying, he gave Joanna the gingerbread man, who was still quite whole—and to Knud the broken maiden; but the children had been so much impressed by the story, that they had not the heart to eat the
~ Hans Christian Andersen
Hans Christian Andersen
~ Elf Of The Rose
I believe in the truth of fairy-tales more than I believe in the truth in the newspaper.
~ Lotte Reiniger
This damsel loves rescuing princes in distress.
~ Sherry Thomas
Somehow he couldn't believe that this was it, that their story would end with such wretchedness, as if Hansel and Gretel had become the witch's dinner after all, or Sleeping Beauty's prince a pile of gnawed bones in the Enchanted Forest.
~ Sherry Thomas
Crystal shoes And a mare to ride on, A milk white mare, And a silver woven in my hair.
~ Shirley Rousseau Murphy
Nicht in dem Zirkel des natürliches Lebens bewegt sich die Vernunft . Ihr geht um die Einsetzung der Wahrheit in der Welt. Vorgeträumt ist ihr Reich in den echten Märchen , die keine Wundergeschichten sind, sondern die wunderbare Ankunft der Gerechtigkeit meinen.
~ Siegfried Kracauer
But wishes are only granted in fairy tales.
~ Simone Elkeles
When a new baby laughs for the first time a new fairy is born, and as there are always new babies there are always new fairies. They live in nests on the tops of trees; and the mauve ones are boys and the white ones are girls, and the blue ones are just little sillies who are not sure what they are.
~ Sir James Matthew Barrie
I love stories, I love myths, I love fairytales, I love Kafka.
~ Regina Spektor
Little Red Riding Hood was my first love. I felt that if I could have married Little Red Riding Hood, I should have known perfect bliss.
~ Charles Dickens
A frog in love would not be enchanted to learn that her beloved had turned into Prince Charming.
~ Mason Cooley