Quotes About Fairy tale

Then he struck her with a magic wand, and she was changed back into a young woman, the fairest ever seen.

In Miss Catherine Middleton we have the faintest, intoxicating glimmer of a New Age Cinderella story.

I remember I did think, 'Wouldn't it be nice if Mr. Right moved in next door?'

in your heart life has accomplished its final miracle: it has become a fairy tale.

There is yet another reason why I cannot, nor wish to, believe in God: the fairy tale about him is not really mine, it belongs to strangers, to all men; it is soaked through by the evil-smelling effluvia of millions of other souls that have spun about a little under the sun and then burst…

The truth is that great novels are great fairy tales... literature was born on the day when a boy came crying wolf, wolf and there was no wolf behind him.

A fairy tale with a twisted ending, one in which the sun sets like napalm on the prince and princess as they walk off, sticky all over with fire.

Memory, come tell a fairy tale About my girl who's lost and gone. Tell, tell about the golden grail And bid the swallow, bring her back to me. Fly close to her and ask her soft and low If she thinks of me sometimes with love, If she is well? Ask too before you go If I am still her dearest, precious dove. And hurry back, don't lose your way, So I can think of other things. But you were too lovely, perhaps, to stay. I loved you once. Good-bye, my love.

The wolf rolls out red carpet, Remnants of Red Riding Hood. (Le loup déroule le tapis rouge, Ce qui reste du Chaperon Rouge)

At the end of the day faith is a funny thing. It turns up when you don't really expect it. Its like one day you realize that the fairy tale may be slightly different than you dreamed. The castle, well, it may not be a castle. And its not so important happy ever after, just that its happy right now. See once in a while, once in a blue moon, people will surprise you , and once in a while people may even take your breath away.

Shakespearean tragedy is neither ancient history nor fairy tale. Perhaps to express this is the most important thing. In which period does the action of the play take place? It is in that past which can become the future.

Ofelia's mother didn't know it, but she also believed in a fairy tale. Carmen Cardoso believed the most dangerous tale of all: the one of the prince who would save her.

The difference between a Northern fairy tale and a Southern one is... A Northern one starts 'once upon a time,' while a Southern one starts 'y'all ain't going to believe this shit.

There's no such thing as justice in America. It's all a fairy tale.

The whole thing becomes like this evil enchantment from a fairy tale, but you're made to believe the spell can never be broken.

When I started acting, I didn't think of it as a career. I always thought Hollywood was this magical world where a fairy came down and said, 'Come live with the Munchkins; you are now one of us.' I didn't understand the concept of it as a career. I thought I would save up enough money to go to college.

in this night, pure and everlasting, like an old fairy tale, being Turkish felt infinitely better than being poor.

That's the way of the world: The princess can disappear, but the witch is forever.

Carmen Cardoso acreditava no conto de fadas mais perigoso de todos: o do príncipe que a salvaria.

What's so unusual about that, princess?" he asked quietly. "Do you know how your story ends?

Look. (Grown-ups skip this paragraph.) I'm not about to tell you this book has a tragic ending, I already said in the very first line how it was my favorite in all the world. But there's a lot of bad stuff coming. William Goldman, The Princess Bride

That's the tragedy of the commons? A fairy tale about giving public assets to rich people to run as personal empires because that way they'll make sure they're better managed than they would be if we just made up some rules?

There must be fairies; for this is a fairy tale: and how can one have a fairy tale if there are no fairies?

Affection! Her father's thick mutton chops twitched in irritation. Good God child, are we back to that? Those fairy tale thoughts were amusing when you were twelve, now they are downright mortifying. Marriage is an institution-- Rather like one of those asylums for lunatics, she mumbled, unable to help herself.