“By fairy hands their knell is rung; By forms unseen their dirge is sung.”― William Collins. Here are 44 Amazing Fairy Quotes.
Fairy Quotes
1. “As long as you keep one foot in the real world while the other foot's in a fairy tale, that fairy tale is going to seem kind of attainable.”― Aaron Sorkin
2. “I don't know what my formula is. I only know I like my characters to walk in clouds. I like a little bit of the fairy tale. Let others photograph the ugliness of the world. I don't want to distress people.”― Leo McCarey
3. “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, Coraline
4. “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
5. “I never thought I'd have children; I never thought I'd be in love, I never thought I'd meet the right person. Having come from a broken home - you kind of accept that certain things feel like a fairy tale, and you just don't look for them.”― Angelina Jolie
6. “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
7. “When you hear the words 'magic' and 'story', they will probably evoke thoughts of your favorite fairy tales from childhood. Storybook pages abound with all manner of magic: fantastical fairies, wish-granting genies, or even a certain boy wizard.”― Tony DiTerlizzi
8. “I've learned that I want what I deny. I want someone who is crazy about me, who treats me like a princess. I want the picture-perfect fairy tale stuff.”― Selena Gomez
9. “The kids from the streets don't want preaching or messages. They want what they can identify with. They want to hear about the reality of their situation, not fairy tales. They don't care if it's ugly; they just want reality.”― Eazy-E
10. “If you see the magic in a fairy tale, you can face the future.”― Danielle Steel
11. “The universe has a much greater imagination than we do, which is why the real story of the universe is far more interesting than any of the fairy tales we have invented to describe it.”― Lawrence M. Krauss
Fairy Quotes
12. “As cynical as I can be, there's always a part of me that believes in love and the fairy tale.”― Lily James
13. “Maybe my fairy tale has a different ending than I dreamed it would. But that's OK.”― Kim Kardashian
14. “You should treat a muse like a fairy.”― Paulo Coelho
15. “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
16. “I love the Queen. I love the whole fairy tale of the Royal Family; the Crown Jewels; Buckingham Palace; the tourist attraction. But really, is that what we've got a monarchy for? It's just for tourism, and then you survive and live off taxpayers' money?”― Slowthai
17. “I'm an interpreter of stories. When I perform it's like sitting down at my piano and telling fairy stories.”― Nat King Cole
18. “I want to tell women that you need to love yourself and make yourself a priority. It's only when you are happy yourself, can you make everyone else around you happy. I am still a dreamer and still believe in fairy tales, but there is only that much one should give another person. You need to keep something for yourself.”― Bipasha Basu
19. “Obsessed by a fairy tale, we spend our lives searching for a magic door and a lost kingdom of peace.”― Eugene O'Neill
20. “If I wasn't a singer, I would be a fairy princess.”― Dua Lipa
21. “The point is, how do you know the Guarantee Fairy isn't a crazy glue sniffer.”― Chris Farley
22. “I love fairy tales because of their haunting beauty and magical strangeness. They are set in worlds where anything can happen. Frogs can be kings, a thicket of brambles can hide a castle where a royal court has lain asleep for a hundred years, a boy can outwit a giant, and a girl can break a curse with nothing but her courage and steadfastness.”― Kate Forsyth
Fairy Quotes
23. “I regard the brain as a computer which will stop working when its components fail. There is no heaven or afterlife for broken-down computers; that is a fairy story for people afraid of the dark.”― Stephen Hawking
24. “I'm an interpreter of stories. When I perform it's like sitting down at my piano and telling fairy stories.”― Nat King Cole
25. “One of the first houses we lived in was like out of a fairy story. We had a stream that ran through our garden, and we played with the ducks - we locked them in my mum's office, and they pooed everywhere. It was crazy, picking blackberries and mushrooms, rabbits running through your legs.”― Emilia Clarke
26. “Everytime a child says 'I don't believe in fairies' there is a a little fairy somewhere that falls down dead.”― James M. Barrie
27. “Let the little fairy in you fly!”― Rufus Wainwright
28. “Every man's life is a fairy tale written by God's fingers.”― Hans Christian Andersen
29. “Fairy tales are stories of triumph and transformation and true love, all things I fervently believe in.”― Kate Forsyth
30. “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.”― Taylor Swift
31. “I think that true love, fairy tales, the positive messages of positive stories - I don't think those ever die. Sometimes we like to hide them in sarcasm or irony, but they are still there, and they still move us.”― Jon M. Chu
32. “The forest has always been a place, in fairy tales and in Shakespeare, where you go and discover who you are. You get stripped of everything you thought you were, some type of ordeal takes place, and you come out stronger.”― David Farr
33. “I have never dreamed of being a princess. I have not longed for Prince Charming. I have and do long for something resembling a happily ever after. I am supposed to be above such flights of fantasy, but I am not. I am enamored of fairy tales.”― Roxane Gay
Fairy Quotes
34. “I'm fascinated with the stories that we tell. Real histories become fantasies and fairy tales, morality tales and fables. There's something interesting and funny and perverse about the way fairytale sometimes passes for history, for truth.”― Kara Walker
35. “I'm living a fairy tale.”― Arnel Pineda
36. “To me, a fairy tale seems to have become reality.”― Nelly Sachs
37. “Life itself is the most wonderful fairy tale.”― Hans Christian Andersen
38. “I always wanted the fairy tale, but now I want someone who is a great partner.”― Elisabeth Rohm
39. “Whoever will be free must make himself free. Freedom is no fairy gift to fall into a man's lap. What is freedom? To have the will to be responsible for one's self.”― Max Stirner
40. “Fairy tales opened up a door into my imagination - they don't conform to the reality that's around you as a child. I started reading when I was three and read everything, but I wanted to be an actress.”― Kate Atkinson
41. “Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it.”― Alexandre Dumas
42. “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
43. “Rather than say he's an atheist, a friend of mine says, 'I'm a tooth fairy agnostic,' meaning he can't disprove God but thinks God is about as likely as the tooth fairy.”― Richard Dawkins
44. “As children, our imaginations are vibrant, and our hearts are open. We believe that the bad guy always loses and that the tooth fairy sneaks into our rooms at night to put money under our pillow. Everything amazes us, and we think anything is possible. We continuously experience life with a sense of newness and unbridled curiosity.”― Yehuda Berg
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