Independently of the curious circumstance that such tales should be found existing in very different countries and languages, which augurs a greater poverty of human invention than we would have expected, there is also a sort of wild fairy interest in them, which makes me think them fully better adapted to awaken the imagination and soften the heart of childhood than the good-boy stories which have been in later years composed for them.
Do we believe that there is equal economic opportunity out there in the real world, right now, for each and every one of these groups? If we believed in the tooth fairy, if we believed in the Easter Bunny, we might well believe that.
People gave names to things so they could tell stories about them, goddam fairy tales about children who got out alive.
I was the original Cinderella girl, looking for the happy ending in the fairy story. But my fantasy prince never came.
Thy loving smile will surely hail The love-gift of a fairy tale.
Since there are thousands of fairy tales, one may safely guess that there are probably equal numbers where the courage and determination of females rescue males, and vice versa.
You perceive, do you not, that our national fairy tales reflect the inmost desires of the Briton and the Gaul?
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.
Be secret and discreet; the fairy favors are lost when not concealed.
This world of sense, built by the imagination--how fair and foul it is! Like a fairy island in the sea of life, it smiles in sunlight and sleeps in green, known of the world not by communion of knowledge, but by personal, secret discovery!
We call them faerie. We don't believe in them. Our loss.
There is not a single homely thing that, looked at from a certain angle, does not become fairy.
My joking answer to this question is that I leave a bowl of milk out on the back porch every night for the Idea Fairy. In the morning, the milk is gone and there's a brand-new shiny idea by the bowl.
When I went back to England after a year away, the country seemed stuck, dozing in a fairy tale, stifled by the weight of tradition.
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. "
I have always been fascinated by the supernatural elements in stories, whether fairy tales, myths, film or literature.
Charm is the true gift of the Fairies.
The public has become my fairy godmother.
One of my favourite messages about The Pirate Fairy is that the story is about appreciating your own talents.
My inspiration is my life, what I see happening around me. It can be history and, quite often, plain traditional fairy tales. But I never adapt; I nourish myself with old stories, and then create my own tales.