Browsing Topic Best Fairytale Quotes

A fairytale is when you marry a frog and it turns out to be a princess. Reality is vice versa.

We’ve got no fairytale ending, in God’s hands our fate is complete. Your heaven’s here in my heart, our love’s this dust beneath my feet.

I can’t just only be on reality TV and show everything when it’s the fairy princess, fairytale, and then not take my hits when I have to.

I usually make up stories for my kids.I like to tell them stories and make up any kind of crazy to involve them in characters. The kind of fairytales I don’t like are the ones with happy endings, where there’s just good and evil and things are perfect. I think when there’s a good story for children it has a moral tale, so that’s what I try to teach my kids.

I think New Orleans is such a beautiful city. It looks like a fairytale when you walk through the French Quarter or the Garden District. There is such a lush sense of color, style, architecture – and the people themselves.

A lot of people would think I have led this easy kind of charmed life, or maybe even a fairytale in some ways. But it has been anything but that.

I’m in love with a fairytale, even though it hurts. ‘Cause I don`t care if I lose my mind; Im already cursed.

If I’m honest I have to tell you I still read fairy-tales and I like them best of all.

A nation that has no music and no fairytales is a tragedy.

The side of fairytales I don’t like is that they always have happy endings, that there’s just good and evil, and things are perfect. But life is a little more complicated, and that’s what I try to teach my kids.

I wasn’t into fairytales when I was little. I was of the generation of the earlier Disney films where many of the female characters, with the exception of the Maleficent’s, were not little girls that I admired… the little princesses. They weren’t characters that I identified with. I think that’s very different now for my girls and more recent films.

On just a personal level, since I was little, I’ve loved fairytales, especially this one, because it is about what goes into making a beast a beast. Do you start as a beast? Do you turn into a beast because of the way that people treat you? I think it’s something that is really universal and hit a chord with me when I was little, and so, hopefully we can explore some of that.

Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.

All the atoms of our bodies will be blown into space in the disintegration of the solar system, to live on forever as mass or energy. That’s what we should be teaching our children, not fairy tales about angels and seeing grandma in Heaven.

Story book endings, fairytales coming true.

I’m not always going to keep waiting for a fairytale ending.

This is exactly the message that fairy tales get across to the child in manifold form: that a struggle against severe difficulties in life is unavoidable, is an intrinsic part of human existence — but that if one does not shy away, but steadfastly meets unexpected and often unjust hardships, one masters all obstacles and at the end emerges victorious.

When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed if I had been found doing so. Now that I am fifty, I read them openly. When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.

It’s a fairytale so tragic there’s no prince to break the spell. I don’t believe in magic, but for you I will

I was obsessed with fairytales, and I was a very, very inquisitive kid, and I would ask my mom all kinds of questions. It all kind of formed a story in my head, and I really wanted to be a published author when I was 10, but I had a hard time writing a novel when I was 10. So I decided to wait until I was little bit older and then get it done.

I think what’s fun about the fairytales is just seeing what everybody interprets them as, which comes from the different directors and what they want to do with them.

In a utilitarian age, of all other times, it is a matter of grave importance that fairy tales should be respected.

Think what you would have been now, if instead of being fed with tales and old wives’ fables in childhood, you had been crammed with geography and natural history!

Cinderella is not only an iconic character when it comes to beauty, grace and fairytale love, but also shoes.

I always thought it hadn’t influenced me very much, but I heard from many people from England that many motives from German fairytales are to be found in my books.

At all ages, if [fantasy and myth] is used well by the author and meets the right reader, it has the same power: to generalize while remaining concrete, to present in palpable form not concepts or even experiences but whole classes of experience, and to throw off irrelevancies. Bat at its best it can do more; it can give us experiences we have never had and thus, instead of ‘commenting on life,’ can add to it.

Never, in all my early childhood, did anyone address to me the affecting preamble: ‘Once upon a time!’ … I can but think that my parents were in error thus to exclude the imaginary from my outlook upon facts. They desired to make me truthful; the tendency was to make me positive and sceptical. Had they wrapped me in the soft folds of supernatural fancy, my mind might have been longer content to follow their traditions in an unquestioning spirit.

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.

One Tree Hill was my very first television audition; it was a fairytale. I feel really lucky to have that level of success right out of the gate.

Every man’s life is a fairy tale written by God’s fingers.

We haven’t yet got eyes that can gaze into all the splendour that God has created, but we shall get them one day; and that will be the finest fairy tale of all, for we shall be in it ourselves.

The more truly we can see life as a fairytale, the more clearly the tale resolves itself into war with the dragon who is wasting fairyland.

There is the great lesson of ‘Beauty and the Beast,’ that a thing must be loved before it is lovable.

A fairytale is not an allegory. There may be allegory in it, but it is not an allegory.

Were I asked, what is a fairytale? I should reply, Read Undine: that is a fairytale.