Quotes and Sayings about Fairytales

We all remember the bed time stories of our childhoods. The shoe fits Cinderella, the frog turns into a prince, sleeping beauty is awakened with a kiss. Once upon a time and then they lived happily ever after. Fairy tales, the stuff of dreams. The problem is, fairy tales don't come true. It's the other stories, the ones that begin with dark and stormy nights and end in the unspeakable. It's the nightmares that always seem to become reality. The person that invented the phrase "Happily ever after" should have his ass kicked, so hard!

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.

Hermione: "We didn't hear stories like that when we were little, we heard 'Snow White and the Seven Dwarves' and 'Cinderella'..."
Ron: "What's that? An illness?"

Fairy tales are meant to be shared.

One day, you will be old enough to start reading fairytales again.

Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed.

Fairy tales are for everyone.

Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.

Germany... a country whose idea of a bedtime story is two children being left to die in the forest, before nearly being cooked and eaten and then murdering an old woman.

Fairytales are stories that span every generation and they've been around for a long time.

It's the problem with fairy tales. From far away, they seem so perfect. But up close, they're just as complicated as real life.

"Once upon a time," he said out loud to the darkness. He said these words because they were the best, the most powerful words that he knew and just the saying of them comforted him.

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

By filling them full of fairy tales they grow up considering life a fantasy instead of reality.

As cynical as I can be, there's always a part of me that believes in love and the fairy tale.

When I used to read fairy-tales, I fancied that kind of thing never happened, and now here I am in the middle of one!

A mind needs books like a sword needs a whetstone.

"One must always be careful of books," said Tessa, "and what is inside them, for words have the power to change us."

If you have never spent whole afternoons with burning ears and rumpled hair, forgetting the world around you over a book, forgetting cold and hunger-

If you have never read secretly under the bedclothes with a flashlight, because your father or mother or some other well-meaning person has switched off the lamp on the plausible ground that it was time to sleep because you had to get up so early-

If you have never wept bitter tears because a wonderful story has come to an end and you must take your leave of the characters with whom you have shared so many adventures, whom you have loved and admired, for whom you have hoped and feared, and without whose company life seems empty and meaningless-

If such things have not been part of your own experience, you probably won't understand what Bastian did next.

I do believe something very magical can happen when you read a good book.

If you don't like to read you haven't found the right book.

Books are mirrors: you only see in them what you already have inside you.

Of course it is happening inside your head, Harry, but why on earth should that mean that it is not real?

Logic will get you from A to Z; imagination will get you everywhere.

Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited.

Gaston: "How can you read this, there's no pictures?"
Belle: "Well, some people use their imagination."

"A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies," said Jojen. "The man who never reads lives only once."

The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.

He was no dragon. Fire cannot kill a dragon.

What do you get when a dragon sneezes? Out of the way.

Dragon! Dragon, not lizard! I don't do that tongue thing.

The ninth Rule of Villainy: When all else fails, turn into a dragon.

Well, there's one thing: they can't order me to stop dreaming.

Where there is kindness, there is goodness and where there is goodness there is magic.

Love will always find a way.

You're never too old to be young.

The body is a slave to its impulses.

Doesn't matter how tough we are. Trauma always leaves a scar. It follows us home, it changes our lives, Trauma messes everybody up, but maybe that's the point: All the pain and the fear and the crap. Maybe going through all of that is what keeps us moving forward, it's what pushes us. Maybe we have to get a little messed up, before we can step up.

I fear the day when the technology overlaps with our humanity. The world will only have a generation of idiots.

A child's voice, however honest and true, is meaningless to those who've forgotten how to listen.

"Follow the spiders"... Why spiders? Why couldn't it be "follow the butterflies"?

Dumbledore watched her fly away, and as her silvery glow faded he turned back to Snape, and his eyes were full of tears. "After all this time?"
"Always", said Snape.

She warned him not to be deceived by appearances, for beauty is found within.

Things never happen the same way twice.

The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.

There's a lot of money to be made in scaring people.

All our dreams can come true - if we have the courage to pursue them.

Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable.

The sky had never seemed so sky; the world had never seemed so world.