Fairy Tale Quotes

• Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.

  Neil Gaiman

  Inspirational, Motivational, Cancer

  Neil Gaiman (2012). “Coraline”, p.7, A&C Black

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• If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Children

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• Life itself is the most wonderful fairy tale.

  Hans Christian Andersen

  Life, Inspiring, Famous Inspirational

  Hans Henrik Jacobsen, Hans Christian Andersen (1969). “A visit to Funen with Hans Christian Andersen”

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• Make a fairy tale and go and live in it.

  Annabel Tollman

  Fairy, Tales

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• Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.

  C. S. Lewis

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  C. S. Lewis (2009). “The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (The Chronicles of Narnia, Book 2)”, p.7, HarperCollins UK

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• I know you, I walked with you once upon a dream.

  Princess Aurora

  Dream, Maleficent, Sleeping Beauty

  FaceBook post by Princess Aurora from Jan 03, 2013

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• If I'm honest I have to tell you I still read fairy-tales and I like them best of all.

  Audrey Hepburn

  Honesty, Reading, Happy Girl

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• If you see the magic in a fairy tale, you can face the future.

  Danielle Steel

  Angel, Magic, Literature

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• Every man's life is a fairy tale written by God's fingers.

  Hans Christian Andersen

  Life, God, Men

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Here is the world of imagination, hopes, and dreams. In this timeless land of enchantment, the age of chivalry, magic and make-believe are reborn - and fairy tales come true. Fantasyland is dedicated to the young-in-heart, to those who that when you wish upon a star, your dreams come true.

  Walt Disney

  Dream, Stars, Believe

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• Once upon a time fairy tales were told to audiences of young and old alike. It is only in the last century that such tales were deemed fit only for small children, stripped of much of their original complexity, sensuality, and power to frighten and delight.

  Terri Windling

  Children, Once Upon A Time, Delight

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• Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it.

  Alexandre Dumas

  Happiness, Fighting, Fairy Stories

  Alexandre Dumas (2003). “The Count of Monte Cristo”, p.18, Bantam Classics

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

  Friedrich Schiller

  Childhood, Taught, Tales

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• Fairy tales have a hidden power, and their appeal never ends. They're the best way to get messages across.

  Michel Ocelot

  Way, Messages, Ends

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• Child of the pure unclouded brow
  And dreaming eyes of wonder!
  Though time be fleet, and I and thou
  Are half a life asunder,
  Thy loving smile will surely hail
  The love-gift of a fairy-tale.

  Lewis Carroll

  Dream, Children, Eye

  Lewis Carroll (2010). “The Complete Alice in Wonderland”, p.170, Dynamite

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• Obsessed by a fairy tale, we spend our lives searching for a magic door and a lost kingdom of peace.

  Eugene O'Neill

  Spiritual, Discovery, Doors

  Eugene O'Neill (1988). “More Stately Mansions: The Unexpurgated Edition”, p.281, Oxford University Press

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• Before you enter the forest, you must leave your mind outside, because in the land of fairy tales there is no need for it!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Land, Mind, Needs

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• 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

  Alice Hoffman

  Emotional, Rivals, Tales

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• The fairy tale is in a perpetual state of becoming and alteration. To keep to one version or one translation alone is to put robin redbreast in a cage.

  Philip Pullman

  Robins, Becoming, Cages

  Philip Pullman (2012). “Grimm Tales: For Young and Old”, p.15, Penguin UK

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• When the first baby laughed for the first time, the laugh broke into a thousand pieces and they all went skipping about, and that was the beginning of fairies.

  James M. Barrie

  Birthday, Baby, Laughter

  Peter Pan act 1 (1928)

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• I always wanted the fairy tale, but now I want someone who is a great partner.

  Elisabeth Rohm

  Want, Partners, Tales

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• When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than any talent for abstract, positive knowledge.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Positive, Wisdom

  "János: The Story of a Doctor". Book by János Plesch, 1947.

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• If you happen to read fairy tales, you will observe that one idea runs from one end of them to the other--the idea that peace and happiness can only exist on some condition. This idea, which is the core of ethics, is the core of the nursery-tales.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Running, Ideas, Nurse

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

  W. H. Auden

  Angel, Way, Fairytale

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• I have very happy memories of fairy tales. My mother used to take me to the library in Toronto to check out the fairy tales. And she was an actress, so she used to act out for me the different characters in all these fairy tales.

  Mike Myers

  Mother, Memories, Character

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