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Life itself is the most wonderful fairy tale. -- Hans Christian Andersen
Every man's life is a fairy tale written by God's fingers. -- Hans Christian Andersen
If you see the magic in a fairy tale, you can face the future. -- Danielle Steel
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Fairy Tales always have a happy ending.' That depends... on whether you are Rumpelstiltskin or the Queen. -- Jane Yolen
I foresee that the Andersen and Fairy Tale fashion will not last; none of these things away from general nature do. -- Mary Russell Mitford
One of the pleasures of the original 'Grimm's Fairy Tales' is how incredibly ghastly they are. The ugly sisters have their eyes pecked out by crows. -- Mark Gatiss
Even as a kid, I read 'Jung - Reflections and Individuation In Fairy Tales'; all the inner circle of Jung was a real huge thing for me. -- Pamela Anderson
The song "No Fairy Tale" tells my story. Going through the hard things leads to a richer life than just trying to make everything perfect, or worse, pretending things are good when they don't feel right. I've done that more than enough times. -- Lisa Loeb
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Sometimes you have to censor books. When I read 'Peter Rabbit,' I skip the part about Peter's father ending up in one of Mrs. McGregor's pies. I also hid the book of 'Grimm Fairy Tales.' They're just too grim for my grandkids. Reality will come soon enough. -- Regina Brett
Fairy tales are more than true ... -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
Religions are the great fairy tales of conscience. -- George Santayana
I want to talk about political and economic fairy tales. -- Ronald Reagan
To me, a fairy tale seems to have become reality. -- Nelly Sachs
The way to read a fairy tale is to throw yourself in. -- W. H. Auden
Thy loving smile will surely hail The love-gift of a fairy tale. -- Lewis Carroll
I'd imagine my wedding as a fairy tale... huge, beautiful and white. -- Paris Hilton
Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again. -- C. S. Lewis
Maybe my fairy tale has a different ending than I dreamed it would. But that's OK. -- Kim Kardashian
Everything is for sale in Hollywood; the fairy tale, the costume, the pumpkin, the footman and the mice. -- Amanda Eliasch
If I'm honest I have to tell you I still read fairy-tales and I like them best of all. -- Audrey Hepburn
I was a great reader of fairy tales. I tried to read the entire fairy tale section of the library. -- Beverly Cleary
Nature is a book, a letter, a fairy tale (in the philosophical sense) or whatever you want to call it. -- Johann Georg Hamann
Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it. -- Alexandre Dumas
And now, I'm a best selling author, a different sort of fairy tale that I still sometimes wonder when I'll wake up from. -- Erin Morgenstern
As a little girl living in the English countryside, I used to go running around in the forests, creating my own fairy tale. -- Lily Collins
I do not know the meaning of my sadness; there is an old fairy tale that I cannot get out of my mind. -- Heinrich Heine
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
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
Chicago is partly a fairy tale because it's inside one person's head, so that part of it's made up and the rest of it is reality. -- Colleen Atwood
The good historian is like the giant of the fairy tale. He knows that wherever he catches the scent of human flesh, there his quarry lies. -- Marc Bloch
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. -- Francis Ford Coppola
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
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
I've had a fairy tale life. I had a perfect family, a beautiful childhood, an incredible upbringing. I lived a lot of life but a lot of good life. -- John Stamos
I took lots of photographs and had planned to write a treatise on how it worked, but I quickly got bored with that idea and wrote a scientific fairy tale instead. -- Kit Williams
My father leaving the family shaped who I was and how I looked at the world. By the same token, my father telling me fairy tales that he had made up shaped me profoundly, too. -- Kate DiCamillo
Snow White' is an old fairy tale, so obviously the idea of vanity and obsession with youth is long-standing. With today's science, people have become crazy with trying to move their face around. It's bizarre. -- Julia Roberts
There must be possible a fiction which, leaving sociology and case histories to the scientists, can arrive at the truth about the human condition, here and now, with all the bright magic of the fairy tale. -- Ralph Ellison
Many of us live in dysfunctional families, and so even if it's in a fairy tale, or perhaps because it's in a fairy tale, we have a chance to look at that side of our reflected lives differently. -- Kenneth Branagh
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
O, to be sure, we laugh less and play less and wear uncomfortable disguises like adults, but beneath the costume is the child we always are, whose needs are simple, whose daily life is still best described by fairy tales. -- Leo Rosten
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
Throughout any given season of 'The Bachelor,' the women exclaim that the experience is like a fairy tale. They suffer the machinations of reality television, pursuing - along with several other women, often inebriated - the promise of happily ever after. -- Roxane Gay
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
The original fairy tale was about the youngest sister going into a room in the castle and finding all the bodies of the wives that came before her - she is confronted with truth, thinking about how often we think we know people and we really don't. -- Alice Hoffman
If you happen to read fairy tales, you will observe that one idea runs from one end of them to the other--the idea that peace and happiness can only exist on some condition. This idea, which is the core of ethics, is the core of the nursery-tales. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
I'm not a big fan of kids' movies that have this knowing snarkiness to them or this post-modern take on storytelling. I think that sails right over the heads of most kids. There's something to be said for a well-told fairy tale. There's a reason that these mythic stories stay with us. -- John C. Reilly
Each time I'm starting to work on a film, even if I love to settle the plot in the real world, I start to think about the plot as a fairy tale, or a dream, or a nightmare... As if it was the best way to tell the truth about characters or narration, instead of realism. -- Arnaud Desplechin
Fairy tales do not give the child his first idea of bogey. What fairy tales give the child is his first clear idea of the possible defeat of bogey. The baby has known the dragon intimately ever since he had an imagination. What the fairy tale provides for him is a St. George to kill the dragon. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
Hollywood always represents this big dream and fairy tale in people's minds, but to me, it's just hard work. Of course, we play fairy tale on the red carpet. It's all Cinderella. But when the clock strikes midnight, I turn into a gray mouse and I go home, and I take my dress off and it's over. That's Hollywood. -- Olga Kurylenko
Evolution is a fairy tale for grown-ups. -- Duane Gish
Chess is a fairy tale of 1001 blunders. -- Savielly Tartakower
Evolution is a fairy tale for adults -- Paul Lemoine
Why can't love be a fairy tale? -- Amy Davis
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I want to believe in the fairy tale. -- Monica Murphy
Every affair is a fairy tale or a tragedy. -- Cherie Priest
This is a fairy tale with teeth and claws. -- Ilsa J. Bick
This isn't a fairy tale. It's New York City. -- Alex Flinn
You are the fairy tale told by your ancestors. -- Toba Beta
Only a fairy tale calls a constant condition 'happiness'. -- Jacob Burckhardt
...which fairy-tale princess ever chose her maid over her prince? -- Kate Morton
'Star Wars' is more fairy tale than true science fiction. -- Mark Hamill
Star Wars' is more fairy tale than true science fiction. -- Mark Hamill
The world is a fairy tale; we are its guardians. -- Dejan Stojanovic
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It just wasn't the fairy tale I had hoped for. -- Kim Kardashian
Make a fairy tale and go and live in it. -- Annabel Tollman
To hunt for symbols in a fairy tale is absolutely fatal. -- W. H. Auden
Life is a fairy tale. Live it with wonder and amazement. -- Welwyn Wilton Katz
You want the fairy tale." "I want a chance at it. -- Rachel Gibson
Like stepping into a fairy tale under a curtain of stars. -- Erin Morgenstern
The biggest fairy tale is that justice works because it doesn't. -- Lauren Beukes
Life to me is a bit of a (Brothers) Grimm fairy tale. -- Alexander McQueen
My life is a fairy tale. You could not make it up. -- Elio Di Rupo
Maybe it's a fairy tale, but I believe in happily ever after. -- Jennifer Aniston
In fact, you-he pointed his fork at me-look like a fairy tale. -- Isabel Gillies
The fairy tale always takes place in worlds that are between, unidentifiable. -- Nicolas Winding Refn
My fairy-tale life ended the moment I wanted to apply for a passport. -- Joan Chen
Give Mozart a fairy tale and he creates without effort an immortal masterpiece. -- Camille Saint-Saens
Jack Vance's Lyonesse books are the greatest fairy tale of the twentieth century. -- Jack Vance
She learned her hands in a fairy-tale, And her mouth on a valentine. -- Edna St. Vincent Millay
Seeing my parents makes me realise that life is not a fairy tale. -- Mollie King
Every fairy tale had a bloody lining. Every one had teeth and claws. -- Alice Hoffman
Life isn't a fairy tale, and happy endings are few and far between -- Kristen Bell
The idea of my life as a fairy tale is itself a fairy tale, -- Grace Kelly
She looks like a fairy tale, but yet feels so natural (natural, natural, natural) -- DJ Drama
These are characters in a fairy tale for grown-ups. Wouldn't it be lovely? Yes. -- Diane Arbus
Whenever Disney asks if you want to do a fairy tale musical, you say yes. -- Robert Lopez
Actually everybody has a story, a fairy tale in their heart that they adhere to. -- Phoebe Stone
So maybe it wasn't the fairy tale. But those stories weren't real anyway. Mine were. -- Sarah Dessen
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Sleepy Hollow had a lot of action in it, even though it was a fairy-tale movie. -- Colleen Atwood
I always wanted the fairy tale, but now I want someone who is a great partner. -- Elisabeth Rohm
At the centre of every fairy tale lay a truth that gave the story its power -- Susan Wiggs
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Yesterday's fairy tale is today's fact. The magician is only one step ahead of his audience. -- Anne Morrow Lindbergh
No matter what you write, you actually can't help retelling a fairy tale somewhere along the way. -- Catherynne M. Valente
If both Church and fairy-tale belong to humanity, they may occasionally cross circles, without injury to either. -- George MacDonald
First, inevitably, the idea, the fantasy, the fairy tale. Then, scientific calculation. Ultimately, fulfillment crowns the dream. -- Konstantin Tsiolkovsky
It's almost a sort of fairy story tale, just what a novelist would write about a discovery. -- Charles Hard Townes
With their hands clasped like children in a fairy tale, she fell asleep beside him in the dark. -- Cassandra Clare
I never quite understood why Disney hadn't made a sincere fairy tale since 'Beauty and the Beast.' -- John Lasseter
I want to have the fairy-tale life with a wife and three or four kids. It will come. -- Cris Judd
Divorce in a young-adult novel means what being orphaned meant in a fairy tale: vulnerability, danger, unwanted independence. -- Caitlin Flanagan
To call everything that appears illogical, fantasy, fairy tale, or chimera would be practically to admit not understanding nature. -- Marc Chagall
Drugs are not the way to the light. They won't lead to a fairy-tale life, they lead to suffering. -- Layne Staley
We often see a temper of the times connection, and it's just like a fairy tale. It's not true. -- Cass Sunstein
Everything you look at can become a fairy tale and you can get a story from everything you touch. -- Hans Christian Andersen
A child gets moral notions from the fairy-tales he delights in, as do his elders from tale and verse. -- Charlotte Mason
Our tree became the talking tree of the fairy tale; legends and stories nestled like birds in its branches. -- Willa Cather
Contrary to what many may think, immortality is not a fairy tale invented to compensate for an unhappy life. -- Stephen R. Lawhead
As cynical as I can be, there's always a part of me that believes in love and the fairy tale. -- Lily James
The film drama is the opium of the peopleâ?¦down with bourgeois fairy-tale scenariosâ?¦long live life as it is! -- Dziga Vertov
At every moment of our lives, we all have one foot in a fairy tale and the other in the abyss. -- Paulo Coelho
That means life itself is a fairy tale. Like the characters, we all live and love and search for a happily-ever-after. -- Gena Showalter
Life has been some combination of fairy-tale coincidence and joie de vivre and shocks of beauty together with some hurtful self-questioning. -- Sylvia Plath
Great heroes need great sorrows and burdens, or half their greatness goes unnoticed. It is all part of the fairy tale. -- Peter S. Beagle

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