Quotes About Fairytales

Keinen Prinzen für die Schlampe?«, fragte Puck. »Was für ein Märchen ist das denn?«

I write about fairies in fantasy and folklore because who wouldn't want to believe in magic and fairy tales.

My father told me fairy stories and he read to us. And my grandmother was Irish. She told us about 'the little people.' When I went into the forest I used to look for them.

Whether we think of Disney's blonde beauty and her pumpkin carriage or Marissa Meyer's recent recasting of 'Cinderella' as a cyborg in the young adult novel 'Cinder,' we know that there are countless modern retellings of the tale.

Every young girl wants to be a princess. Then, when you find a real-life one, it's very easy to imagine yourself in that role.

My parents read me fairy tales every night and I used to believe I was a fairytale princess, like every young girl. I had all the Disney dressing-up costumes and would play every character.

You should treat a muse like a fairy.

she fell into a long sleep, and dreamed he dreams of the dream tree.

Children understand that 'once upon a time' refers not only--not even primarily--to the past, but to the impalpable regions of the present, the deeper places inside us where princes and dragons, wizards and talking birds, impassable roads, impossible tasks, and happy endings have always existed, alive and bursting with psychic power.

How can you see a real forest if you have never seen a fairy forest?

If you want the Cinderella moments then you have to believe in magick.

The days when a princess was too delicate to sleep on a mattress with a pea under it are long gone.

As a child, I was as intrigued by the Evil Queen as I was charmed by Snow White.

To be able to say, 'I'm going to be Snow White' - it's crazy. It's an honor.

The first Disney movie I saw I think was 'Snow White.' I loved all the Disney princess movies.

The very first movie that I ever saw in a theater was 'Snow White and the Seven Dwarves.'

When I was a kid, Disney was one of my gods. I just loved movies like 'Snow White' and 'Pinocchio.'

Really believing in once upon a time. Believing that it will draw you in, take you with me to a place you've never been before.

And then Jack chopped down what was the world's last beanstalk, adding murder and ecological terrorism to the theft, enticement, and trespass charges already mentioned, and all the giant's children didn't have a daddy anymore. But he got away with it and lived happily ever after, without so much as a guilty twinge about what he had done...which proves that you can be excused for just about anything if you are a hero, because no one asks inconvenient questions.

If it came to that, the book never gave you the evidence of anything. It talked about "a handsome prince"…was he really, or was it just because he was a prince that people called him handsome? As for "a girl who was as beautiful as the day was long"…well, which day? In midwinter it hardly ever got light! The stories didn't want you to think, they just wanted you to believe what you were told

To be frank, I thought you were going to marry the princess.' Mort blushed. 'We talked about it,' he said. 'Then we thought, just because you happen to rescue a princess, you shouldn't rush into things.' 'Very wise. Too many young women leap into the arms of the first young man to wake them after a hundred years' sleep, for example.

She was never likely to say out loud, "I wish that I could marry a handsome prince," but knowing that if you did you'd probably open the door to find a stunned prince, a tied-up priest, and a Nac Mac Feegle grinning cheerfully and ready to act as best man definitely made you watch what you said.

T]he princesses were beautiful as the day is long and so noble they, they could pee through a dozen mattresses-

He famously defended fairy stories against those who said they told children that there were monsters; children already know that there are monsters, he said, and fairy stories teach them that monsters can be killed. We now know that the monsters may not simply have scales and sleep under a mountain. They may be in our own heads.