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Come Fairies, take me out of this dull world, for I would ride with you upon the wind and dance upon the mountains like a flame! -- William Butler Yeats
Fairies use flowers for their charactery. -- William Shakespeare
Charm is the true gift of the Fairies. -- Charles Perrault
Fairies: Nature's attempt to get rid of soft boys by sterilizing them. -- F. Scott Fitzgerald
Fairies don't live long, but they are so little that a short time seems a good while to them -- James M. Barrie
Fairies are becoming much more popular. I see fairyland as this big sea, and the tide is sometimes out. -- Brian Froud
Fairies in Ireland are sometimes as big as we are, sometimes bigger, and sometimes, as I have been told, about three feet high. -- William Butler Yeats
Fairies are angels who reside very close to the Earth so that they can perform their Divine mission of protecting nature and animals. -- Doreen Virtue
Fairies have to be one thing or the other, because being so small they unfortunately have room for one feeling only at a time. -- James M. Barrie
Fairies have to be one thing or the other, because being so small they unfortunately have room for one feeling only at a time. -- James M. Barrie
Fairies, black, grey, green, and white, You moonshine revellers, and shades of night, You orphan heirs of fixed destiny, Attend your office and your quality. -- William Shakespeare
Fairies, arouse! Mix with your song Harplet and pipe, Thrilling and clear, Swarm on the boughs! Chant in a throng! Morning is ripe, Waiting to hear. -- William Allingham
When I wrote 'The Good Fairies of New York,' I wasn't really imagining that there were fairies. Not in the way that I'm really imagining there are werewolves. -- Martin Millar
I so seldom had to dispose of a human body myself, I was at a loss. Fairies turned into dust, and vampires flaked away. Demons had to be burned. Humans were very troublesome. -- Charlaine Harris
Christmas Eve Saint Francis and Saint Benedight Blesse this house from wicked wight; From the night-mare and the goblin, That is hight good fellow Robin: Keep it from all evil spirits, Fairies, weezels, rats, and ferrets: From curfew time To the next prime. -- Thomas Cartwright
We have had drought where I live in New Mexico for several years, and I began to think about rain and green plants and growing. Fairies naturally came to mind when I imagined walking in green places. They are workers for the growth principle. -- Mei-mei Berssenbrugge
Twelve years ago I made a mock Of filthy trades and traffics; I considered what they meant by stock; I wrote delightful sapphics; I knew the streets of Rome and Troy, I supped with fates and Fairies-- Twelve years ago I was a boy, A happy boy at Drury's. -- Winthrop Mackworth Praed
I don't really like fairies. -- Amanda Hocking
I have a daughter, and fairies meant a lot to her growing up. -- Michael Sheen
Vampires, werewolves, fallen angels and fairies lurk in the shadows, their intentions far from honorable. -- Jeaniene Frost
Do you believe in fairies? Say quick that you believe. If you believe, clap your hands! -- James M. Barrie
Every time a child says I don't believe in fairies there is a fairy somewhere that falls down dead. -- James M. Barrie
We cannot, of course, disprove God, just as we can't disprove Thor, fairies, leprechauns and the Flying Spaghetti Monster. -- Richard Dawkins
Everytime a child says 'I don't believe in fairies' there is a a little fairy somewhere that falls down dead. -- James M. Barrie
Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too? -- Douglas Adams
The words 'fairy tales' must accordingly be taken to include tales in which occurs something 'fairy,' something extraordinary - fairies, giants, dwarfs, speaking animals. -- Joseph Jacobs
I've always believed in experiencing everything in life. When you walk out with blinders on, you cut yourself off from the angels and the fairies. -- Alyssa Milano
To me in my childhood, elves and fairies of all sorts were very real things, and my dolls were as really children as I was myself a child. -- Annie Besant
In the Land of Ire, the belief in fairies, gnomes, ogres and monsters is all but dead; in the Land of Ind, it still flourishes in all the vigour of animism. -- Joseph Jacobs
Us comics guys tend to get really good at the things we draw a lot. I'm good at creepy old forests, Victorian houses, underground goblin cities, and beautiful but creepy fairies. -- Ted Naifeh
I am quite spiritual. I believed in the fairies when I was a child. I still do sort of believe in the fairies. And the leprechauns. But I don't believe in God. -- Helen Mirren
There may be fairies at the bottom of the garden. There is no evidence for it, but you can't prove that there aren't any, so shouldn't we be agnostic with respect to fairies? -- Richard Dawkins
We sometimes received - and I would read - 200 manuscripts a week. Some of them were wonderful, some were terrible; most were mediocre. It was like the gifts of the good and bad fairies. -- Marilyn Hacker
I want to be in 'The Hobbit.' I love fantasy and mythical adventure films. I believe in fairies and angels. I believe in nature's spirit, that there are other realms, other planets, life forms. -- Julia Sawalha
I suppose if you look back to your early childhood you accept everything people tell you, and that includes a heavy dose of irrationality - you're told about tooth fairies and Father Christmas and things. -- Richard Dawkins
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. -- Tony DiTerlizzi
I believe in everything until it's disproved. So I believe in fairies, the myths, dragons. It all exists, even if it's in your mind. Who's to say that dreams and nightmares aren't as real as the here and now? -- John Lennon
I started writing my own songs from the time I was a little kid. I would write my own lyrics to other people's songs that I heard on the radio and take whatever song and make it about fairies and angels - whatever little girls sing about. -- Bonnie McKee
Actually, I think I'm part of the last generation to grow up believing in magic and fairies and believing I had powers - you know, lying on the ground and trying to have my spirit leave my body - which never happened; still working on that bit. -- Alice Englert
A lot of children are interested in fairies, especially young girls, and Tinker Bell is the ueber-fairy. She's the pin-up girl of fairies. She's the ultimate fairy, but she's also got a mischievous spirit and she's very strong-willed. I think a lot of youngsters recognize themselves in Tinker Bell. -- Michael Sheen
I've been kind of listening to the composer Britten and his rendition of 'A Midsummer Night's Dream.' The opening track is a choral section where all the weird fairies, who are played by kids in the production, sing. It's a crazy opening melody and chord sequence - really amazing. -- Dev Hynes
I do a lot of urban fantasy, which is modern-day cities, but you've got magic, you've got fairies running around, or cryptozoological creatures running around, and I'm pulling very heavily on my background as a folklore major and having done some animation work and all of that, and I'm pulling from the modern fairy tale narrative. -- Seanan McGuire
There may be fairies at the bottom of the garden. There is no evidence for it, but you can't prove that there aren't any, so shouldn't we be agnostic with respect to fairies -- Richard Dawkins
Ballet is the fairies baseball. -- Oscar Levant
To connect with the fairies... go outdoors. -- Doreen Virtue
I do believe in fairies! I do! I do! -- James M. Barrie
There are fairies at the bottom of our garden. -- Rose Fyleman
The fairies break their dances And leave the printed lawn. -- A. E. Housman
We are all fairies living underneath a leaf of a lily pad. -- Tori Amos
Every time you say you don't believe in fairies, a fairy dies. -- James M. Barrie
There was never a merry world since the fairies left off dancing. -- John Selden
I think that people who can't believe in fairies aren't worth knowing. -- Tori Amos
Miracles are doomed; they will drop out like fairies and witchcraft, from... -- Matthew Arnold
Ninjas are silly. They are the flower fairies of gong fu and karate. -- Nick Harkaway
Not believe in Santa Claus! You might as well not believe in fairies! -- Francis Pharcellus Church
On the tawny sands and shelves trip the pert fairies and the dapper elves. -- John Milton
There may be fairies, there may be elves, but God helps those who help themselves. -- Stephen King
The mysteries that cups of flowers infold And all the gorgeous sights which fairies do behold. -- William Wordsworth
Like many air travelers, I am aware that airplanes fly aided by capricious fairies and invisible strings. -- J. Maarten Troost
David tells me that fairies never say 'We feel happy': what they say is, 'We feel dancey'. -- James M. Barrie
David tells me that fairies never say 'We feel happy': what they say is, 'We feel dancey'. -- James M. Barrie
There's two kind of cherries, and two kind of fairies, and two kind of mothers I'm told. -- Merle Haggard
Of all the minor creatures of mythology, fairies are the most beautiful, the most numerous, the most memorable. -- Andrew Lang
I am agnostic only to the extent that I am agnostic about fairies at the bottom of the garden -- Richard Dawkins
Mythology was littered with people who meddled in the affairs of elves and fairies and were never again heard from. -- Thomm Quackenbush
the temperaments of children are often as oddly unsuited to parents as if capricious fairies had been filling cradles with changelings. -- Harriet Beecher Stowe
Rachel delivered it like an official pronouncement. Like she was one of the fairies gifting Sleeping Beauty's christening: Beauty. Intelligence. Heterosexual. -- Josh Lanyon
Have you watched the fairies when the rain is done, Spreading out their little wings to dry them in the sun? -- Rose Fyleman
I was very much provoked. Of course, I knew there are no fairies; but that needn't prevent my thinking there is. -- Lucy Maud Montgomery
most of us happily disavow fairies, astrology and the Flying Spaghetti Monster, without first immersing ourselves in books of Pastafarian theology etc. -- Richard Dawkins
Do little pink fairies sing and dance in your world, Peabody?" "Sometimes, when it's very quiet and no one else can see. -- Nora Roberts
I am better off with vegetables at the bottom of my garden than with all the fairies of the Midsummer Night's Dream. -- Dorothy L. Sayers
After a time he fell asleep, and some unsteady fairies had to climb over him on their way home from an orgy. -- James M. Barrie
Say what you want about fairies, but you haven't rocked out until you've heard Smoke on the Water played on a harpsichord. ~Harlow -- Red Tash
We almost need another word for fairy, that's the thing. Once people get to see what fairies' real power is, then they understand. -- Brian Froud
Writing is my dream. From romance to dragons; fairies to fantasy worlds, this is where I live and play. Thanks be to God! -- Lisa Hannah Wells
(M)aybe we too busy being flowers or fairies or strawberries instead of something honest and worthy of respect . . . you know . . . like being people. -- Toni Cade Bambara
When I was a really young child, I felt like I could see fairies. I was convinced there were fairies in my grandmother's garden. -- Noel Fielding
Then take me on your knee, mother; And listen, mother of mine. A hundred fairies danced last night, And the harpers they were nine. -- Mary Howitt
Most humans were on one big island, to the fairies, and that island was adrift on a sea called I Totally Donâ??t Care. -- Charlaine Harris
Oh! where do fairies hide their heads, When snow lies on the hills, When frost has spoiled their mossy beds, And crystallized their rills? -- Thomas Haynes Bayly
Two fairies were sleeping peacefully on his bed. Dinnie was immediately depressed. He knew that he did not have enough money to see a therapist. -- Martin Millar
I got rid of my teeth at a young age because I'm straight. Teeth are for gay people. That's why fairies come and get them. -- Dana Snyder
As well might you leave the fairies to plough your land or the idle winds to sow it, as sit down and wait for freedom. -- Thomas Davis
A full moon sprinkled the black ocean with diamonds, and she could imagine fairies dancing in the silver foam that laced the huge, dark waves. -- Patricia Hagan
It is frightfully difficult to know much about the fairies, and almost the only thing for certain is that there are fairies wherever there are children. -- J.M. Barrie
It is frightfully difficult to know much about the fairies, and almost the only thing for certain is that there are fairies wherever there are children. -- J.M. Barrie
When a new baby laughs for the first time a new fairy is born, and as there are always new babies there are always new fairies. -- James M. Barrie
All I'd have to do then was roll with the consequences of inviting dewinged, fanged fairies into Trent's backyard. God, they were savage looking. Served him right. -- Kim Harrison
I've always thought fairies are like mushrooms, you trip over them when you're not thinking about them, but they're hard to spot when you're searching for them. -- Jo Walton
Deaf folk hear the fairies However soft their song; 'Tis we who lose the honey sound Amid the clamor all around That beats the whole day long. -- Rose Fyleman
I could hear you, talking to the daffodils and tulips, whispering to the fairies that lived inside their petals. Each separate flower had a different family inside it. -- Lucy Christopher
Look, how come he showed up now? When you have other fairies in the woods? And does that sound crazy when you say it out loud, or what? -- Charlaine Harris
Faster than fairies, faster than witches, Bridges and houses, hedges and ditches; And charging along like troops in a battle, All through the meadows the horses and cattle -- Robert Louis Stevenson
I came from an Italian house. The refrigerator was always full. I never knew you had to buy food. I thought there were food fairies that came at night. -- Ray Romano
When the first baby laughed for the first time, the laugh broke into a thousand pieces and they all went skipping about, and that was the beginning of fairies. -- James M. Barrie
When the first baby laughed for the first time, its laugh broke into a thousand pieces, and they all went skipping about, and that was the beginning of fairies. -- J.M. Barrie
Mortals seldom know how greatly they are influenced by fairies, knooks and ryls, who often put thoughts into their heads that only the wise little immortals could have conceived. -- L. Frank Baum
[The] great fairy Science, who is likely to be queen of all the fairies for many a year to come, can only do you good, and never do you harm... -- Charles Kingsley
Nor elves, nor fays, nor magic charm, Have pow'r, or will, to work us harm; For those who dare the truth to tell, Fays, elves, and fairies, wish them well. -- Maria Edgeworth
Blind folk see the fairies. Oh, better far than we, Who miss the shining of their wings Because our eyes are filled with things We do not wish to see. -- Rose Fyleman
I don't believe in fairies floating around, and I don't believe in telepathy, but there are things I want to say that just simple real-life stories don't let me say. -- Isobelle Carmody
I had a job as an illustrator, and I wanted to change the direction of my work. I moved to the country, and immediately I started to paint fairies and trolls. -- Brian Froud
And though you should live in a palace of gold, or sleep in a dried up ditch, You could never be as poor as the fairies are, and never as rich. -- Rose Fyleman
The fast fliers are not disgraced." Queen Ree reached up for the missing tiara. "She saved us, but she's with him now." Vidia was complicated, two fairies in one, a loyal traitor. -- Gail Carson Levine
..children know such a lot now, they soon don't believe in fairies, and every time a child says, 'I don't believe in fairies,' there is a fairy somewhere that falls down dead. -- James M. Barrie
No man of sense in the whole world believes in devils any more than he does in mermaids, vampires, gorgons, hydras, naiads, dryads, nymphs, fairies, the Fountain of Youth, [or] the Philosopher's Stone. . . . -- Robert Green Ingersoll
You do not see fairies through the eyes, you see them through the heart and that took me a long time to learn because I was always trying to see them through my eyes. -- Brian Froud
I am the most unhappy soul alive." "I'd heard it said that fairies have no souls." "Then do I ache, and bleed, and smart, elsewhere; still, call it soul for it is solely mine. -- Neil Gaiman
I believe that my parents helped me to keep my natural psychic abilities open. I think most kids see angels or fairies, and because my parents were such open people, I kept that alive. -- Doreen Virtue
In college, I became interested in folk tales and fairy tales. Gradually I became more and more interested in the underlying meaning of it all and the possibility of the reality of real fairies. -- Brian Froud
Atheists don't hate fairies, leprechauns, or unicorns because they don't exist. It is impossible to hate something that doesn't exist. Atheists, like the painting experts hated the painter, hate God because He does exist -- Ray Comfort
In the 20th century, artists did a great disservice to fairies. They painted fairies in a way that was shallow and trite. So when people see my stuff, they suddenly realize the depth of fairies. -- Brian Froud
The fairies, as their custom, clapped their hands with delight over their cleverness, and they were so madly in love with the little house that they could not bear to think they had finished it. -- James M. Barrie
Even an ordinary broken chord is made to disclose rare beauties; we are reminded of the fairies' hazelnuts in which diamonds were concealed but you could break the shell only if your hands were blessed. -- Neville Cardus
Custom is, nevertheless, the greatest enchantress, and in a home one of the most benevolent of fairies. A wife was young, and becomes old; it is custom which hinders the husband from perceiving the change. -- Timothy Shay Arthur
Robert Kirk believed the fairies to be the doubles or, as he called them, the 'co-walkers' of men, which accompanied them through life, and thought that this co-walker returned to Faerie when the person died. -- Lewis Spence
But of course there's no logic to San Francisco generally, a city built with putty and pipe cleaners, rubber cement and colored construction paper. It's the work of fairies, elves, happy children with new crayons -- Dave Eggers

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