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!

Meredith Grey in Grey's Anatomy - Season 5 Episode 1

Cinderella Sleeping Beauty

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

Children & Childhood

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?"

Ron Weasley in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

Cinderella Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs

Fairy tales are meant to be shared.

Belle in Beauty and the Beast

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

C.S. Lewis in The Chronicles of Narnia

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

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

Fear Dragons

Fairy tales are for everyone.

Walt Disney

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 in Coraline

Dragons

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.

John Oliver (Last Week Tonight)

Germany

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

Jamie Dornan

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.

Soman Chainani in The School for Good and Evil - A World Without Princes

"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.

Kate DiCamillo in The Tale of Despereaux

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

Ai Weiwei

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

Doris Walker in Miracle on 34th Street

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

Lily James

Love

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!

Lewis Carroll

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A mind needs books like a sword needs a whetstone.

Tyrion Lannister in Game of Thrones - Season 1 Episode 2

Books Mind & Apprehension Intelligence

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

Cassandra Clare in The Infernal Devices

Books

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.

Michael Ende in The Neverending Story

Books Reading

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

Joanne K. Rowling

Books Reading

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

Joanne K. Rowling

Books Reading

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

Carlos Ruiz Zafón in The Shadow of the Wind

Books Mirrors

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

Albus Dumbledore in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

Imagination

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

Albert Einstein

Reason & Sanity Imagination

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

Albert Einstein

Knowledge Imagination Criminal Minds

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

Belle in Beauty and the Beast

Imagination Reading

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

George R. R. Martin in A Song of Ice and Fire - A Dance with Dragons

Imagination Reading

The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.

Albert Einstein

Imagination Intelligence

He was no dragon. Fire cannot kill a dragon.

Daenerys Targaryen in Game of Thrones - Season 1 Episode 6

Dragons

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

Shyvana the Half-Dragon in League of Legends

Dragons

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

Mushu in Mulan

Dragons

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

Maleficent in Disney Lorcana

Dragons

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

Cinderella in Cinderella

Dreaming Comforting

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

Cinderella in Cinderella

Magic

Love will always find a way.

Sleeping Beauty

You're never too old to be young.

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs in Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs

Age

The body is a slave to its impulses.

Meredith Grey in Grey's Anatomy

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.

Alex Karev in Grey's Anatomy - Season 5

Beginning Scars

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

Albert Einstein

Foolishness Technology Generations

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

Albus Dumbledore in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

Children & Childhood Hearing & Listening

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

Ron Weasley in Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

Spiders

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.

Severus Snape in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

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

Beauty and the Beast

Beauty Appearance

Things never happen the same way twice.

C.S. Lewis in The Chronicles of Narnia

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

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

War Veterans Day Fighting

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

Dana Scully in The X-Files

Fear Conspiracy Theories

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

Walt Disney

Dreaming Courage

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

Neil Gaiman in The Sandman

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

Neil Gaiman in Coraline

World Sky

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