Fairy Quotes - Page 26

• Be secret and discreet; the fairy favors are lost when not concealed.

  John Dryden

  Secret, Favors, Lost

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• On the tawny sands and shelves trip the pert fairies and the dapper elves.

  John Milton

  Dapper, Sand, Shelves

  John Milton (2007). “Complete Shorter Poems”, p.186, Pearson Education

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• the temperaments of children are often as oddly unsuited to parents as if capricious fairies had been filling cradles with changelings.

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Children, Parent, Cradle

  Harriet Beecher Stowe (1896). “The pearl of Orr's Island”, Houghton Mifflin Co.

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• Novels are to love as fairy tales to dreams.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Dream, Fiction, Fairy Tale

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1858). “The complete works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: With an introductory essay upon his philosophical and theological opinions”, p.269

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• Mortals seldom know how greatly they are influenced by fairies, knooks and ryls, who often put thoughts into their heads that only the wise little immortals could have conceived.

  L. Frank Baum

  Wise, Littles, Know How

  L. Frank Baum (2016). “American Fairy Tales: American Literature”, p.40, VM eBooks

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• Serendipity... You will understand it better by the derivation than by the definition. I once read a silly fairy tale, called 'The Three Princes of Serendip': as their Highnesses traveled, they were always making discoveries, by accidents and sagacity, of things which they were not in quest of.

  Horace Walpole

  Silly, Discovery, Serendipity

  Letter to Horace Mann, 28 Jan. 1754. Coinage of the word serendipity.

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• Letters crossing in the post, unfamiliar tunes heard three times in one day, the way that blows of fate descend upon the same bowed shoulders, and the beams of good fortune glow perpetually upon the blessed. Fairy tales, as I said, are lived out daily. There is far more going on in the world than we ever imagine.

  Fay Weldon

  Life, Blessed, Fate

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• If you have been touched by the success fairy, people think you know why. People think success breeds enlightenment and you are duty-bound to spread around like manure. Fertilize those young minds!

  Meryl Streep

  Success, Thinking, People

  Meryl Streep Barnard Graduation Speech, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 18, 2010.

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• I think the metaphysical world is something Lisa and I have always been interested in. We were encouraged from a very young age to believe in magic. Our mom used to take us to fairy parties. As we got older, I was always very drawn to manifesting my own destiny...learning how to do spells and personal ritual.

  Jessica Origliasso

  Mom, Party, Believe

  Source: www.fuse.tv

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• People who think they can just do a non-stop flight to mystical, non-dual thinking, to get it out without going through the process, are usually not right. That's airy-fairy thinking. They have to wait until they are hurt themselves, or they are cheated, or lied to or betrayed, and they will see that their non-dual thinking is not tested, or truly a gift of the spirit. It's simply fuzzy thinking.

  Richard Rohr

  Hurt, Thinking, Gifts Of The Spirit

  Source: ryanthomasneace.com

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  Comic books to me are fairy tales for grown-ups.

  Stan Lee

  Book, Fairy Tale, Comic

  "The Playboy Interview: Stan Lee on Superheroes, Marvel and Being Just Another Pretty Face". Interview with David Hochman, playboysfw.kinja.com. March 31, 2014.

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• Sweet memory, wafted by the gentle gale,
  Oft up the stream of Time I turn my sail,
  To view the fairy haunts of long-lost hours,
  Blest with far greener shades, far fresher flowers.

  Samuel Rogers

  Sweet, Memories, Flower

  Samuel Rogers, Thomas Campbell, James Montgomery, Charles Lamb, Henry Kirke White (1839). “The poetical works of Rogers, Campbell, J. Montgomery, Lamb, and Kirke White”, p.13

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• Twelve years ago I made a mock
  Of filthy trades and traffics;
  I considered what they meant by stock;
  I wrote delightful sapphics;
  I knew the streets of Rome and Troy,
  I supped with fates and Fairies--
  Twelve years ago I was a boy,
  A happy boy at Drury's.

  Winthrop Mackworth Praed

  Education, Fate, Boys

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• Did you ever hear
  Of the frolic fairies dear?
  They're a blessed little race,
  Peeping up in fancy's face,
  In the valley, on the hill,
  By the fountain and the rill;
  Laughing out between the leaves
  That the loving summer weaves.

  Frances Sargent Osgood

  Summer, Blessed, Race

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• Fairies, black, grey, green, and white,
  You moonshine revellers, and shades of night,
  You orphan heirs of fixed destiny,
  Attend your office and your quality.

  William Shakespeare

  Night, Destiny, White

  William Shakespeare (1998). “The Merry Wives of Windsor”, p.211, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Whenever Disney asks if you want to do a fairy tale musical, you say yes.

  Robert Lopez

  Musical, Want, Fairy Tale

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• I have always been fascinated by the supernatural elements in stories, whether fairy tales, myths, film or literature.

  Trudi Canavan

  Supernatural Elements, Stories, Literature

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• The rules your parents teach you to live by are very different than the rules the world actually runs by. Most of the conventional wisdom is not only wrong, it's a lie told to us by people who want to control us. It doesn't help us, it helps them. Pretty much everything we're told as children (and adults, really) by the established power structures in our lives are made up fairytales us to reinforce that control: Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny, the tooth fairy, fat-free frozen dinners, religion, and metering lights on the highway--the list goes on

  Tucker Max

  Running, Easter, Children

  Tucker Max (2012). “Hilarity Ensues”, p.241, Simon and Schuster

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• What I personally gravitate toward tends to be fantasy, medium dark - not too dark - fairy tales and sci fi. Stop-motion takes something on the page thats really dark and adds a little sweetness to it, a living toys realm.

  Henry Selick

  Dark, Toys, Add

  "Henry Selick on his 'medium dark' stop-motion movie for Disney" by Rebecca Keegan, latimesblogs.latimes.com. April 27, 2012.

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• Folk-lore means that the soul is sane, but that the universe is wild and full of marvels. Realism means that the world is dull and full of routine, but that the soul is sick and screaming. The problem of the fairy tale is: what will a healthy man do with a fantastic world? The problems of the modern novel is: what will a madman do with a dull world? In the fairy tales the cosmos goes mad; but the hero does not go mad. In the modern novels the hero is mad before the book begins, and suffers from the harsh steadiness and cruel sanity of the cosmos.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Hero, Book, Mean

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• I was born and raised in Ohio. During my childhood, I spent most of my time drawing and reading fairy tales and myths.

  Natalie Babbitt

  Reading, Drawing, Ohio

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• Ever heard of anyone executed for distributing copies of Grimm's fairy tales? Imagine people trying to smuggle copies of Hans Christian Andersen's works into China? The Bible, which has been called a mere collection of myths has suffered all of these fates: even today, copies of the Bible are banned and burned. There's something about this ancient book that threatens and frightens those in power.

  Eric Metaxas

  Christian, Book, Fate

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• For me, any fiction of nobles and swords necessarily has to be a story of corruption, injustice and savagely violent conflict - because any other treatment is going to have all the heft and realistic honesty of a bedtime fairy tale for five year olds.

  Richard K. Morgan

  Honesty, Years, Fiction

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• "We will wait," answered little Alice, taking Nettie's hand in hers, and looking up to the sky, "we will wait - ever constant and true - till the times have got so changed as that everything helps us out, and nothing makes us ridiculous, and the fairies have come back. We will wait - ever constant and true - till we are eighty, ninety, or one hundred. And then the fairies will send US children, and we will help them out, poor pretty little creatures, if they pretend ever so much."

  Charles Dickens

  Inspirational, Children, Hands

  Charles Dickens (1871). “The Mystery of Edwin Drood and Other Pieces”, p.516

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• As a self-respecting dude, I'd never believed in fairy tales, but in that moment, I did. I'd found my angel to live happily-ever-after with.

  Katie Ashley

  Angel, Self, Fairy Tale

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