Fairytale Quotes

I've discovered as I've grown up that life is far more complicated than you think it is when you're a kid. It isn't just a straightforward fairytale.

I foresee that the Andersen and Fairy Tale fashion will not last; none of these things away from general nature do.

I love fairytales. I like fantasy a lot, science fiction, I like magic. I like to create magic. I love magic.

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

I would compete in unicorn back riding! Why? Because we are from the same fairytale.

My first record was about childhood. There were a lot of nursery rhyme and fairytale references; it was all about being naive.

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’ve always loved fairytales, and I’ve loved the concept of, um, some of the best parts of a lot of stories are the beginning.

This is a modern fairytale. No happy endings. No wind in our sails. But I can't imagine a life without. Breathless moments.

Everyone who was ever told a fairytale knows what happens to women who do their own magic.

The way to read a fairy tale is to throw yourself in.

You hear people saying, 'Oh I'm so tired, I've had enough of Cannes.' How can you have enough of Cannes? It's just the best place to be, like a fairytale.

No real fairytale scared me, but Freddy Krueger did. 'Nightmare on Elm Street' scared the living hell out of me, but no fairytale. Maybe 'Hansel and Gretel' a little bit when they were walking through the forest and they met the witch. But I liked being scared, I really enjoy being scared.

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

Fairy tales are experienced by their hearers and readers, not as realistic, but as symbolic poetry.

To play someone I loved in my favourite fairytale as a kid is a total honour.

I love stories, I love myths, I love fairytales, I love Kafka.

We love each other like matches in the dark. We don't talk, we catch fire instead

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.

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

Anyone who still wants to experience fairytales these days can’t afford to dither when it comes to using their brains.

I didn't break into comics to write fairytales or crime comics.

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.

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.

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