Fairy Quotes - Page 5

• Come Fairies, take me out of this dull world, for I would ride with you upon the wind and dance upon the mountains like a flame!

  William Butler Yeats

  Dance, Angel, Flames

  William Butler Yeats (2015). “When You Are Old: Early Poems, Plays, and Fairy Tales”, p.102, Penguin

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• I am your fairy tale. Your dream. Your wishes and desires, and I am your thirst and your hunger and your food and your drink.

  Klaus Kinski

  Dream, Wish, Desire

  Klaus Kinski (1997). “Kinski Uncut: The Autobiography of Klaus Kinski”, Penguin Books

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• Do you believe in fairies? Say quick that you believe. If you believe, clap your hands!

  James M. Barrie

  Believe, Hands, Clapping

  Peter Pan act 4 (1928)

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• Reality leaves a lot to the imagination.

  John Lennon

  Love, Life, Happiness

  Sunday Herald Sun (Australia), January 13, 2003.

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• Of all the minor creatures of mythology, fairies are the most beautiful, the most numerous, the most memorable.

  Andrew Lang

  Beautiful, Memorable, Mythology

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• The wall is silence, the grass is sleep, Tall trees of peace their vigil keep, And the Fairy of Dreams with moth-wings furled. Plays soft on her flute to the drowsy world.

  Ida Rentoul Outhwaite

  Dream, Wall, Sleep

  Ida Rentoul Outhwaite, Grenbry Outhwaite, Annie R. Rentoul (2016). “Fairyland”, p.146, Courier Corporation

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• All the ancient classic fairy tales have always been scary and dark.

  Helena Bonham Carter

  Dark, Scary, Fairy Tale

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• I was a great reader of fairy tales. I tried to read the entire fairy tale section of the library.

  Beverly Cleary

  Library, Fairy Tale, Tales

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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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• Nature is a book, a letter, a fairy tale (in the philosophical sense) or whatever you want to call it.

  Johann Georg Hamann

  Book, Philosophical, Letters

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• A scientist in his laboratory is not a mere technician: he is also a child confronting natural phenomena that impress him as though they were fairy tales.

  Marie Curie

  Children, Fairy Stories, Hair

  "Madame Curie: A Biography". Book by Eve Curie Labouisse, November 30, 1936.

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• The original fairy tale was about the youngest sister going into a room in the castle and finding all the bodies of the wives that came before her - she is confronted with truth, thinking about how often we think we know people and we really don't.

  Alice Hoffman

  Thinking, People, Wife

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• My father leaving the family shaped who I was and how I looked at the world. By the same token, my father telling me fairy tales that he had made up shaped me profoundly, too.

  Kate DiCamillo

  Father, Leaving, World

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• The land of literature is a fairy land to those who view it at a distance, but, like all other landscapes, the charm fades on a nearer approach, and the thorns and briars become visible.

  Washington Irving

  Distance, Book, Reading

  Washington Irving (1865). “Works: Complete in 27 Volumes. Tales of a traveller”, p.188

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• Where'er ye sojourn, and whatever names Ye are or shall be called; fairies, or sylphs, Nymphs of the wood or mountain, flood or field: Live ye in peace, and long may ye be free To follow your good minds.

  Hartley Coleridge

  Names, Nymphs, Long

  Hartley Coleridge, Derwent Coleridge (1851). “Poems: With a Memoir of His Life by His Brother”, p.270

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• But the golden-rod is one of the fairy, magical flowers; it grows not up to seek human love amid the light of day, but to mark to the discerning what wealth lies hid in the secret caves of earth.

  Margaret Fuller

  Lying, Flower, Light

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• The little Plumpuppets are fairies of beds; They have nothing to do but watch sleepyheads; They turn down the sheets and they tuck you in tight, And dance on your pillow to wish you good night!

  Christopher Morley

  Good Night, Wish, Bed

  Christopher Morley (1919). “The Rocking Horse”

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• It is not because angels are holier than men or devils that makes them angels, but because they do not expect holiness from one another, but from God only.

  William Blake

  Angel, Men, Devil

  William Blake (1977). “The Portable William Blake”, p.455, Penguin

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• Maybe my fairy tale has a different ending than I dreamed it would. But that's OK.

  Kim Kardashian

  Life, Success, Different

  "Kourtney Kardashian Pregnant" by Jocelyn Vena, www.mtv.com. November 30, 2011.

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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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• There may be fairies at the bottom of the garden. There is no evidence for it, but you can't prove that there aren't any, so shouldn't we be agnostic with respect to fairies?

  Richard Dawkins

  Respect, Atheist, Learning

  Speech at the Edinburgh International Science Festival, April 15, 1992.

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• The fey wonders of the world only exist while there are those with the sight to see them.

  Charles de Lint

  Sight, Fey, World

  "Into the Green". Book by Charles de Lint, 1993.

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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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• I think, at a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift should be curiosity.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Birthday, Family, Mother

  Eleanor Roosevelt (1995). “What I Hope to Leave Behind: The Essential Essays of Eleanor Roosevelt”, Carlson Pub

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• We may have forgotten how to feel. Nobody is teaching us how to live happily ever after, as we've heard in fairy tales.

  Yakov Smirnoff

  Teacher, Teaching, May

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