Top 66 Fairy Tales Quotes

I always wanted to be on ‘Sesame Street,’ that kind of a thing, puppets and fun and original songs and fairy tales.

Tink is the voice of the youth. I’m not one of those artists who talks about unrealistic things or fairy tales. I’m not talking about expensive things and cars. I’m actually talking about what’s going on in my life and every teenager’s life, too.

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

Once upon a time, I was a little girl sick in the hospital, and my mother gave me a copy of ‘Grimm’s Fairy Tales’ to comfort me.

Oh, gosh, I have always been a huge fan of horror since I was a child. I know this is going to sound really weird, but I think it started with fairy tales.

If you look at children’s stories in fairy tales, they’re pretty brutal.

On that other novels followed: but I still wrote fairy tales and dreamy poems of another world.

I firmly believe in real-life fairy tales.

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.

‘Once Upon a Time’, ‘Mirror Mirror’ – those shows and films focus on women and their conflict with one another. What the heck is going on in contemporary fairy tales? Women are not dominating the world; they are not evil.

I was a Nancy Drew girl. Also Grimms’ fairy tales.

Why should a horror film be just a horror film? To me, The Company of Wolves is a fairy tale; it’s got all those elements plus a lot more. And we know that fairy tales aren’t innocent any more.

To be honest, Peter Pan was one of those fairy tales that I sort of related to, and I think that’s the case with a lot of kids.

What the Greeks and Romans considered myths, we consider fairy tales. We can see how very clearly the myths, which emanated from all cultures, had a huge influence on the development of the modern fairy tale.

I like being scared, so I’ve always liked fairy tales because they’re kind of creepy.

I also like the whole idea of fairy tales and folk tales being a woman’s domain, considered a lesser domain at the time they were told.

What I like about fairy tales is that they highlight the emotions within a story. The situations aren’t real, with falling stars and pirates. But what you do relate to is the emotions that the characters feel.

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 that’s really dark and adds a little sweetness to it, a living toys realm.

I loved reading Grimm’s fairy tales and Hans Christian Andersen, and I loved to dream about other worlds and other lives. Maybe that has something to do with having an incomplete family, being an only child. All I know is I loved to pretend, and all that was in tandem with my wanting to be an actress.

I grew up with Bible stories, which are like fairy tales, because my father was a minister. We heard verses and prayers every day. I liked the gorier Bible stories. I did have a book of Chinese fairy tales. All the people except the elders looked like Italians. But we were not a family that had fiction books.

Conservatives used to believe in confronting hard truths, not succumbing to comforting fairy tales. Some still do.

Fairy tales, before they were sanitized, were very dark, and kids love that. ‘Coraline’ by Neil Gaiman feels like Beckett for kids. I think there’s plenty of room for that. And I think there’s a danger of being too patronizing to children, having things too sanitized.

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

There seems to be a real taste for the fantastical these days. People like to get back into their imaginations. Maybe there’s something a little nostalgic about ‘Grimm’ and the fairy tales that they grew up with. And it’s a very unique approach to the procedural side of things.

I’m a great believer in fairy tales. I think it is important to have something you can lose yourself in.

I think, reading the Grimm’s fairy tales, they all have some sort of moral component to them, teaching you a lesson.

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.

I began to believe the fairy tales: You know, how we’re all out there looking for our magical missing half.

Indexing’ is a police procedural about protecting the world from memetic incursions – which is to say, fairy tales.

The Islamic terror threat is so fierce, unrelenting and barbaric that we tell ourselves fairy tales about how these ruthless acts are anything but what they are: acts of war.

As a child, I loved fairy tales because the story, the what-comes-next, is paramount. As an adult, I’m fascinated by their logic and illogic.

Fairy tales read before bed tend to make me dream. They’re all quite violent stories, as are my dreams.

I never saw fairy tales as an escape or a cop-out… On the contrary, speaking for myself, it is the way to understand reality.

I love fairy tales because I think that behind fairy tales, there is always a meaning.

I think people should read fairy tales, because we’re hungry for a mythology that will speak to our fears.

I acquired a hunger for fairy tales in the dark days of blackout and blitz in the Second World War.

Like you see in the fairy tales, that’s how it planned out in my head. Kids, little white picket fence, the American dream.

To be honest, Peter Pan was one of those fairy tales that I sort of related to, and I think that’s the case with a lot of kids. The whole idea of escapism really resonates with a lot of kids.

To portray an iconic character has been brilliant in itself, and to be able to do that on a show like ‘Once Upon a Time’ enhances that because the show puts a spin on characters and makes them very different and puts core values that are very different that aren’t in the original fairy tales a lot of people relate to.

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.

I never read any fairy tales or classics until I was an adult; all we ever had was comics… No television, either. If we wanted entertainment, we hung around the fish shop.

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

Recasting fairy tales has become a publishing sub-genre in itself, and has been done both well and to the point of entropy. More interesting are those works where the structures of fairytales are abandoned but the world of ‘fairy’ is imported as a delicate spice.

I am completely fascinated by the differences and comparisons between real life and fairy tales because we’re raised as little girls to think that we’re a princess and that Prince Charming is going to sweep us off our feet.

I was raised on the brothers Grimm, but my favorite fairy tales in the world are Oscar Wilde’s – ‘The Nightingale and the Rose,’ ‘The Selfish Giant.’ The latter is probably my all-time favorite.

When you hear the words ‘magic’ and ‘story’, they will probably evoke thoughts of your favourite fairy tales from childhood. Storybook pages abound with all manner of magic: fantastical fairies, wish-granting genies, or even a certain boy wizard.

Fairy tales and folk tales have always played a role in my writing in one way or another.

When I was four years old, my father, who was a colonel in the army, was stationed in Salzburg, Austria. Across the street from our house was an ancient castle on a cliff. So when I first heard fairy tales, I felt as if the magic of ‘Cinderella’ or ‘Sleeping Beauty’ was taking place right in my own neighborhood.

If you read Grimm’s fairy tales, they’re absolutely terrifying.

Fairy tales were great because they provided a no-limits playground for my imagination, and growing up, there’s nothing more exciting.

I had to grow up fast because we know it’s not all fairy tales out there; it’s full of rubbish.

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.

The spark for ‘In Praise of Slowness’ came when I began reading to my children. Every parent knows that kids like their bedtime stories read at a gentle, meandering pace. But I used to be too fast to slow down with the Brothers Grimm. I would zoom through the classic fairy tales, skipping lines, paragraphs, whole pages.

Sometimes you have to censor books. When I read ‘Peter Rabbit,’ I skip the part about Peter’s father ending up in one of Mrs. McGregor’s pies. I also hid the book of ‘Grimm Fairy Tales.’ They’re just too grim for my grandkids. Reality will come soon enough.

All of my work is influenced by fairy tales, and I hope my work shows Hans Christian Anderson’s influence.

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.

When fairy tales are written in the west, they’re known as folklore. In the east, fairy tales are called religions.