Fairy tales quotations
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- Albert Einstein99◆ Fairy tales thrive on black and white. In life, there's only grey – no bad guys, no good guys. You could be the Cheshire cat, Snow White, a troll or a pastry-making witch whose diet consists only of little kids, but you'll always be you.
- Arnold Arre98◆ Plus, I happened to be a history nerd. Why else would I be interested in a guy born in the year 519?
- Priya Ardis98◆ For most of human history, 'literature,' both fiction and poetry, has been narrated, not written — heard, not read. So fairy tales, folk tales, stories from the oral tradition, are all of them the most vital connection we have with the imaginations of the ordinary men and women whose labor created our world.
- Angela Carter98◆ We may say that the characters in fairytales are ‘good to think with'…[and that] the job of the fairytale is to show that Why? questions cannot be answered except in one way: by telling the stories. The story does not contain the answer, it is the answer.
- Brian Wicker98◆ The last declaration he'd made to me hung between us. The L word. The one that had nothing to do with like.
- Priya Ardis98◆ 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!
- Charles Lamb98◆ Fairy tales were stupid. And dangerous.
- Melody Mayer98◆ My name is Arianna Morganna Brittany DuLac--you can imagine why I went by the name Ryan.
- Priya Ardis98◆ You are the fairy told by your ancestors.
- Toba Beta98◆ The tales of Elfland do not stand or fall on their actuality but on their truthfulness, their speaking to the human condition, the longings we all have for the Faerie Other.
- Jane Yolen98◆ I will put your skill to the test, but if you do not pass, you shall tie the marriage knot with the ropemaker's daughter and the cawing of the crows will be your wedding song.
- Brothers Grimm - THE MASTER THIEF98◆ The combination of razor-sharp wit (completely real) and his credentials (completely fake) had won them over in the end.
- Priya Ardis98◆ Soft sun shone down on a misty cathedral at the opposite end of a football-field length courtyard. The cathedral had a long pointed tower with beautiful rose and ivory stained glass windows. Pink-petal flowers and deep green ivy climbed the stones from the ground to it's roof. A large fountain stood in the middle of the courtyard with water falling from several lion's heads. Between the misty air and rolling slope of the earth, the grounds reminded me of a long lost fairy tale.
- Priya Ardis98◆ Fairy tales are experienced by their hearers and readers, not as realistic, but as symbolic poetry.
- Max Luthi98
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