Fairy Quotes

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

Mother, Child, Gift

Come away, O human child: To the waters and the wild with a fairy, hand in hand, For the world's more full of weeping than you can understand.
William Butler Yeats

Human, Understand, Away

You should treat a muse like a fairy.
Paulo Coelho

There is no heaven or afterlife for broken-down computers; that is a fairy story for people afraid of the dark.
Stephen Hawking

Computers, Dark, Afraid

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, Fight, Order

I like Cinderella, I really do. She has a good work ethic. I appreciate a good, hard-working gal. And she likes shoes. The fairy tale is all about the shoe at the end, and I'm a big shoe girl.
Amy Adams

Work, Good, Girl

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

Him, Child, Though

I don't know what to think about magic and fairy tales.
Richard Dawkins

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

Different, Maybe, Ending

Everytime a child says 'I don't believe in fairies' there is a a little fairy somewhere that falls down dead.
James M. Barrie

Down, Child, Dead

I'd imagine my wedding as a fairy tale... huge, beautiful and white.
Paris Hilton

Wedding, Beautiful, White

Life itself is the most wonderful fairy tale.
Hans Christian Andersen

Life, Wonderful, Tale

The point is, how do you know the Guarantee Fairy isn't a crazy glue sniffer.
Chris Farley

Crazy, Point, Guarantee

All the ancient classic fairy tales have always been scary and dark.
Helena Bonham Carter

Dark, Scary, Ancient

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

Become, Literature, View

'Snow White' is an old fairy tale, so obviously the idea of vanity and obsession with youth is long-standing. With today's science, people have become crazy with trying to move their face around. It's bizarre.
Julia Roberts

Science, Today, Crazy

This is a work of fiction. All the characters in it, human and otherwise, are imaginary, excepting only certain of the fairy folk, whom it might be unwise to offend by casting doubts on their existence. Or lack thereof.
Neil Gaiman

Work, Human, Might

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

Future, Face, Magic

In fairy tales the bad guy is very easy to spot. The bad guy is always wearing a black cape so you always know who he is.
Taylor Swift

Bad, Black, Easy

I was born an only child in Vienna, Austria. My father found hours to sit by me by the library fire and tell fairy stories.
Hedy Lamarr

Father, Fire, Tell

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

Food, Dream, Drink

When I went back to England after a year away, the country seemed stuck, dozing in a fairy tale, stifled by the weight of tradition.
Brian Eno

Country, After, Away

In kindergarten that used to be my job, to tell them fairytales. I liked Hans Christian Andersen, and the Grimm fairy tales, all the classic fairy tales.
Francis Ford Coppola

Job, Christian, Tell

As much as I'd like to meet the tooth fairy on an evening walk, I don't really believe it can happen.
Chris Van Allsburg

Evening, Happen, Walk

Fairy tales to me are never happy, sweet stories. They're moral stories about overcoming the dark side and the bad.
Joe Wright

Happy, Bad, Dark

My mother might find a thin gold chain at the back of a drawer, wadded into an impossibly tight knot, and give it to me to untangle. It would have a shiny, sweaty smell, and excite me: Gold chains linked you to the great fairy tales and myths, to Arabia, and India; to the great weight of the world, but lighter than a feather.
Anne Lamott

Great, Mother, Give

I didn't like fairy tales when I was younger. I found a lot of fairy tales scary. They really didn't sit well with me.
Amanda Seyfried

Found, Sit, Scary

I found a lot of fairy tales scary. They really didn't sit well with me.
Amanda Seyfried

Found, Sit, Scary

But I don't know if people are meant to be together. You have to have a lot in common, choose well and be really fortunate. It's not like you're sprinkled with fairy dust. You have to believe that love will be there when you need it.
Claire Danes

Love, Together, Choose

Every man's life is a fairy tale written by God's fingers.
Hans Christian Andersen

Life, God, Written

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