Fairy famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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The fairies break their dances And leave the printed lawn.
-- A. E. Housman -
I do not believe that there are any such things as gods and goddesses, for exactly the same reasons as I do not believe there are fairies, goblins or sprites, and these reasons should be obvious to anyone over the age of ten.
-- A.C. Grayling -
Oh, where is the Fairy Godmother of explanations when you need her?
-- Allison Pearson -
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 -
I'm a fairy. I'd come and hear, "How was your day, honey?" And I'd be like, "I was a fairy. I don't know."
-- Angelina Jolie -
American cinema is international like the fairy tales were international.
-- Bertrand Tavernier -
We call them faerie. We don't believe in them. Our loss.
-- Charles de Lint -
I was a captive and a slave. I loved Dora Spenlow to distraction! She was more than human to me. She was a Fairy, a Sylph, I dont know what she was--anything that no one ever saw, and everything that everybody ever wanted.
-- David Copperfield -
To connect with the fairies... go outdoors.
-- Doreen Virtue -
A myth is, of course, not a fairy story. It is the presentation of facts belonging to one category in the idioms appropriate to another. To explode a myth is accordingly not to deny the facts but to re-allocate them.
-- Gilbert Ryle -
It is not children only that one feeds with fairy tales.
-- Gotthold Ephraim Lessing -
The idea of my life as a fairy tale is itself a fairy tale,
-- Grace Kelly -
Breaking things is a specialty of everyone in Fairy Tail
-- Hiro Mashima -
There is not a single homely thing that, looked at from a certain angle, does not become fairy.
-- Hope Mirrlees -
Like many air travelers, I am aware that airplanes fly aided by capricious fairies and invisible strings.
-- J. Maarten Troost -
Do you believe in fairies? Say quick that you believe. If you believe, clap your hands!
-- James M. Barrie -
Every time you say you don't believe in fairies, a fairy dies.
-- James M. Barrie -
True love is born of experience, not fairy dust.
-- Janette Oke -
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 -
Be secret and discreet; the fairy favors are lost when not concealed.
-- John Dryden -
On the tawny sands and shelves trip the pert fairies and the dapper elves.
-- John Milton -
The bad mood fairy comes to annoy you only when you are actually in a good position, but don't yet realise it!
-- Jonathan Cainer -
Rachel delivered it like an official pronouncement. Like she was one of the fairies gifting Sleeping Beauty's christening: Beauty. Intelligence. Heterosexual.
-- Josh Lanyon -
The biggest fairy tale is that justice works because it doesn't.
-- Lauren Beukes -
Every constellation’s like its own fairy tale.
-- Lauren Miller -
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 -
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 -
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 -
Fugazi, Fugazi. It's a wazy. It's a woozie. It's fairy dust.
-- Mark Hanna -
‎What a blight that woman is. Do you happen to know why? I lean toward a malignant fairy at her christening.
-- Mary Ann Shaffer -
Miracles are doomed; they will drop out like fairies and witchcraft, from...
-- Matthew Arnold -
It was not a happy ending of the sort in fairy tales, but it was the only one we had.
-- Megan Hart -
Money is much more exciting than anything it buys.
-- Mignon McLaughlin -
Every tooth in a man's head is more valuable than a diamond.
-- Miguel de Cervantes -
To me, a fairy tale seems to have become reality.
-- Nelly Sachs -
If you listen very carefully, you can hear the good fairy come in the night and leave our assignment for tomorrow.
-- Orson Scott Card -
A tendency toward the abstract is inherent in linear expression: graphic imagery being confined to outlines has a fairy-like quality and at the same time can achieve great precision.
-- Paul Klee -
We cling to our fairy tales until the price for believing in them becomes too high.
-- Ransom Riggs -
I am agnostic only to the extent that I am agnostic about fairies at the bottom of the garden
-- Richard Dawkins -
In every gardener there is a child who believes in The Seed Fairy.
-- Robert Breault -
I'll seek a four leaved shamrock in all thy fairy dells, And if I find the charmed leaves, oh, how I'll weave my spells!
-- Samuel Lover -
Come, let us hasten to a higher plane, Where dyads tread the fairy fields of Venn, Their indices bedecked from one to _ n, Commingled in an endless Markov chain!
-- Stanislaw Lem -
Mr. Robinson was a polished sort of person. He was so clean and healthy and pleased about everything that he positively shone - which is only to be expected in a fairy or an angel, but is somewhat disconcerting in an attorney.
-- Susanna Clarke -
When your daughter asks you to be a fairy for her 5th birthday party... you better be a damned fairy.
-- Tony Hawk -
We are all fairies living underneath a leaf of a lily pad.
-- Tori Amos -
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 -
There is no social-change fairy. There is only change made by the hands of individuals.
-- Winona LaDuke -
If you want to tell grown-up fairy tales, you have to look for the dark side.
-- Juan Antonio Bayona -
Of all the minor creatures of mythology, fairies are the most beautiful, the most numerous, the most memorable.
-- Andrew Lang
