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Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it. -- Alexandre Dumas
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 want to tell women that you need to love yourself and make yourself a priority. It's only when you are happy yourself, can you make everyone else around you happy. I am still a dreamer and still believe in fairy tales, but there is only that much one should give another person. You need to keep something for yourself. -- Bipasha Basu
Fairy tales are more than true ... -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
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
All the ancient classic fairy tales have always been scary and dark. -- Helena Bonham Carter
Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again. -- C. S. Lewis
If you see the magic in a fairy tale, you can face the future. -- Danielle Steel
I think people should read fairy tales, because were hungry for a mythology that will speak to our fears. -- Sandra Cisneros
I was a great reader of fairy tales. I tried to read the entire fairy tale section of the library. -- Beverly Cleary
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I began to believe the fairy tales: You know, how we're all out there looking for our magical missing half. -- Michael Bergin
In a utilitarian age, of all other times, it is a matter of grave importance that fairy tales should be respected. -- Charles Dickens
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
Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased by tales, so is the other. -- Francis Bacon
Things need not have happened to be true. Tales and adventures are the shadow truths that will endure when mere facts are dust and ashes and forgotten. -- Neil Gaiman
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
I should be very willing to redress men wrongs, and rather check than punish crimes, had not Cervantes, in that all too true tale of Quixote, shown how all such efforts fail. -- Lord Byron
The universe has a much greater imagination than we do, which is why the real story of the universe is far more interesting than any of the fairy tales we have invented to describe it. -- Lawrence M. Krauss
Child of the pure unclouded brow And dreaming eyes of wonder! Though time be fleet, and I and thou Are half a life asunder, Thy loving smile will surely hail The love-gift of a fairy-tale. -- Lewis Carroll
When I was a kid, there were these great comic books called 'Tales From The Crypt' and 'The Vault of Horror.' They were gruesome. I discovered them in the barbershop and thought they were fabulous. -- R. L. Stine
The kids from the streets don't want preaching or messages. They want what they can identify with. They want to hear about the reality of their situation, not fairy tales. They don't care if it's ugly; they just want reality. -- Eazy-E
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
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
My mother might find a thin gold chain at the back of a drawer, wadded into an impossibly tight knot, and give it to me to untangle. It would have a shiny, sweaty smell, and excite me: Gold chains linked you to the great fairy tales and myths, to Arabia, and India; to the great weight of the world, but lighter than a feather. -- Anne Lamott
Tales of heroes end in bliss. -- Tanith Lee
Tales of triumph are my favourite. -- S.A. Tawks
Erections, Ejaculations,Exhibitions and General Tales of Ordinary Madness. -- Charles Bukowski
Tales of adultery are much improved by period costumes. -- Mason Cooley
Shark Tales: How I turned $1,000 into a Billion Dollar Business -- Barbara Corcoran
Tales From Topographic Oceans is like a woman's padded bra, -- Rick Wakeman
Overnight Success Happens Only in Fairy Tales, Trashy Novels, and Bad Movies. -- Ernie J Zelinski
LEASELife Ends And Session ExpiresKamil Ali - Poem, The Balance' - Profound Vers-A-Tales -- Kamil Ali
Fairy Tales always have a happy ending.' That depends... on whether you are Rumpelstiltskin or the Queen. -- Jane Yolen
Unfortunately, unless the job description included a translation of the prologue of The Canterbury Tales, I was dreadfully under-qualified. -- Rachel Vincent
Like a grindhouse version of Grimm's Fairy Tales, Wallwork's fiction is smart, innovative, and a hell of a lot of fun. -- Carlton Mellick III
I love visual stylists like Bob Fosse and Vincente Minnelli and Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger with The Red Shoes and The Tales of Hoffman. -- Alfonso Gomez-Rejon
I was more aware initially of shows like Tales of the Unexpected. And the BBC used to put on a lot of one-off, bizarre television plays. -- Charlie Brooker
Tales From Topographic Oceans' is like a woman's padded bra. The cover looks good, but when you peel off the padding, there's not a lot there. -- Rick Wakeman
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
I love the idea that people are listening to "Tales" during all types of activities. Knitting in their favorite chair, rock climbing, sky diving, driving at night. -- Glenn McQuaid
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
Tales of power and ambition and intrigue and betrayal and desire - when you're telling those in a big way, you automatically want to go to Shakespeare. -- Beau Willimon
Then there was Clark Ashton Smith, who wrote for Weird Tales and who had a wild imagination. He wasn't a very talented writer, but his imagination was wonderful. -- Jack Vance
The first science fiction show on television was 'Tales Of Tomorrow' using scripts from the radio show 'X-1' which used stories from 'Galaxy Magazine' as its source material. -- David Gerrold
Neurologists say that our brains are programmed much more for stories than for abstract ideas. Tales with a little drama are remembered far longer than any slide crammed with analytics. -- John P. Kotter
I read a lot of The Canterbury Tales on my phone, because I was cycling between three different editions, and I needed to have a middle-of-the-night edition for the insomniac reading. -- Rick Moody
These were our bedtime stories. Tales that haunted our parents and made them laugh at the same time. We never understood them until we were fully grown and they became our sole inheritance. -- Edwidge Danticat
These were our bedtime stories. Tales that haunted our parents and made them laugh at the same time. We never understood them until we were fully grown and they became our sole inheritance." -- Edwidge Danticat
They [Fairy Tales] are talking about real emotions, telling true stories, through the medium of metaphor. People used to understand metaphor better than I think we do now. But these stories are so potent, they refuse to die. -- Jane Yolen
So here is my story, may it bringSome smiles and a tear or so,It happened once upon a time,Far away, and long ago,Outside the night wind keens and wails,Come listen to me, the Teller of Tales! -- Brian Jacques
I think it was 'Tales of Topographic Oceans' on 8-track that was the funniest thing because it would fade out in the middle of a song and fade back in again, and when the tracks change, it was quite amusing. -- Chris Squire
Gifts fall from heaven only in fairy tales. -- Walter Ulbricht
But are not the dreams of poets and the tales of travellers notoriously false? -- H. P. Lovecraft
If you want to tell grown-up fairy tales, you have to look for the dark side. -- Juan Antonio Bayona
Great deeds give choice of many tales. Choose a slight tale, enrich it large, and then let wise men listen. -- Pindar
Modern morality and manners suppress all natural instincts, keep people ignorant of the facts of nature and make them fighting drunk on bogey tales. -- Aleister Crowley
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I always felt and still feel that fairy tales have an emotional truth that is so deep that there are few things that really rival them. -- Alice Hoffman
The Islamic terror threat is so fierce, unrelenting and barbaric that we tell ourselves fairy tales about how these ruthless acts are anything but what they are: acts of war. -- Monica Crowley
It is in your DNA to love a good story. You know, neat tales with heroes and villains and conflicts to resolve. A good story pushes our buttons, is exciting and memorable. -- Barry Ritholtz
My parents read me fairy tales every night and I used to believe I was a fairytale princess, like every young girl. I had all the Disney dressing-up costumes and would play every character. -- Lily Collins
If a secret history of books could be written, and the author's private thoughts and meanings noted down alongside of his story, how many insipid volumes would become interesting, and dull tales excite the reader! -- William Makepeace Thackeray
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I am completely fascinated by the differences and comparisons between real life and fairy tales because we're raised as little girls to think that we're a princess and that Prince Charming is going to sweep us off our feet. -- Taylor Swift
I was weaned not on television or Wild West sagas but on stories of nationalism and patriotism. I would sit at my mother's feet by the hour and drink in these exciting tales of the freedom fighters in our family. -- Sukarno
I like that 'once upon a time' quality, where the telling of a tale has an elevated sense of story. There's a whimsical quality to it. Sometimes in fairy tales more things seem possible, even though often they're real world based. -- Erin Morgenstern
There are accents in the eye which are not on the tongue, and more tales come from pale lips than can enter an ear. It is both the grandeur and the pain of the remoter moods that they avoid the pathway of sound. -- Thomas Hardy
I have never dreamed of being a princess. I have not longed for Prince Charming. I have and do long for something resembling a happily ever after. I am supposed to be above such flights of fantasy, but I am not. I am enamored of fairy tales. -- Roxane Gay
When I wrote the eight fairy tales that appear in 'Horse, Flower, Bird' I was working toward a completely new form of artistic expression, trying to create a new kind of tale that also felt vintage: innocent and childlike, but haunted. I tried to write a picture-less picture book. -- Kate Bernheimer
I am not sure how much good is done by moralising about fairy tales. This can be unsubtle - telling children that virtue will be rewarded, when in fact it is mostly simply the fact of being the central character that ensures a favourable outcome. Fairy tales are not, on the whole, parables. -- A. S. Byatt
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As I obsess about my ancient problems, I feel more like I'm sinking in quicksand than lighting a torch. I'm creating neither heat nor light, just the icky, perversely pleasurable squish of self-pity between my toes. My only defense is that I'm not the only one down here in the muck - our whole culture is doting on tales of personal tragedy. -- Martha Beck
Fairy-tales are nice. -- Syd Barrett
Dead men tell no tales. -- John Dryden
Tell tales out of school. -- John Heywood
Sure, I love fairy tales. -- Maynard James Keenan
Dead men tell no tales, Mary. -- Daphne du Maurier
Idle man, chases after fairy tales... -- Rumi
I loved fairy tales growing up. -- Lily James
Tragic tales rarely do make sense. -- Gwenn Wright
Science Fiction: fairy tales for nerds. -- Richard Bayan
All great novels are great fairy tales. -- Vladimir Nabokov
Philosophy is the opposite of fairy tales -- Jostein Gaarder
We have been poisoned by fairy tales. -- Anais Nin
Is life a fantasy or fairy tales~? -- Lailah Gifty Akita
Is life a fantasy or fairy tales? -- Lailah Gifty Akita
How easy it is to tell tales! -- Denis Diderot
The dead have need of fairy tales too. -- Zbigniew Herbert
But wishes are only granted in fairy tales. -- Simone Elkeles
Once upon a time, fairy tales were AWESOME! -- Adam Gidwitz
Remember all fairy tales end at some point. -- Melissa de la Cruz
Cautionary tales were fantastic in the '70s. -- Alfonso Cuaron
Many forgotten things live still in children's tales. -- Alison Croggon
...fairy tales, just a fancy word for lies... -- Cecelia Ahern
Even nightingales can't be fed on fairy tales. -- Ivan Turgenev
I'm not writing fairy tales or object lessons. -- Junot Diaz
Religions are the great fairy tales of conscience. -- George Santayana
Screw fairy tales. My life was way more interesting. -- Rebecca Chastain
I'll be left writing picture books and fairy tales. -- Carol Ann Duffy
I'll be left writing picture books and fairy tales -- Carol Ann Duffy
Comic books to me are fairy tales for grown-ups. -- Stan Lee
Novels are to love as fairy tales to dreams. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
He tells old wives' tales much to the point. -- Horace
I love fairy tales and feel very affected by them. -- Alice Hoffman
American cinema is international like the fairy tales were international. -- Bertrand Tavernier
Spring blossoms are fairy tales, autumn leaves are tragic dramas. -- Mehmet Murat ildan
The sahara desert the Rapunzel the charity the gifted tales. -- Marissa Meyer
American cinema is international like the fairy tales were international -- Bernard Tavernier
I want to talk about political and economic fairy tales. -- Ronald Reagan
Dead women tell no tales. Sad men write them down. -- Daniel Handler
It is tedious to tell again tales already plainly told. -- Homer
If ancient tales say true, nor wrong these holy men. -- Lord Byron
I know little of women. But I've heard dread tales. -- Harold Pinter
Thanks to nanny, I've got a deep understanding of Russian tales. -- Modest Mussorgsky
Well, Company of Wolves was about that literally, about fairy tales. -- Neil Jordan
Ireland is where strange tales begin and happy endings are possible. -- Charles Haughey
People shouldn't just talk about you, they should tell your tales. -- Amit Kalantri

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