Fairy Tales

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

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. – G.K. Chesterton

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

Once in a while, right in the middle of an ordinary life, love gives us a fairy tale. – Author unknown

I only tell fairy-tales (said the Philosopher) for I would rather be seen in their sober vestments than in the prismatic unlikelihood of reality. – Christina Stead, “Lemonias,” The Salzburg Tales, 1934

This is not simply a story about a frog and a prince. A story about a frog would be biological. A story about a prince would be historical. But a story about a frog-prince is magical, and therein lies all the difference. – Jane Yolen, Touch Magic: Fantasy, Faerie and Folklore in the Literature of Child

I am among those who think that science has great beauty. A scientist in his laboratory is not only a technician: he is also a child placed before natural phenomena which impress him like a fairy tale. – Marie Curie

In fairyland we avoid the word “law”; but in the land of science they are singularly fond of it…. The only words that ever satisfied me as describing Nature are the terms used in fairy books, “charm,” “spell,” “enchantment.” They express the arbitrariness of the fact and its mystery. – G.K. Chesterton, “The Ethics of Elfland,” Orthodoxy

Novels are to love as fairy tales to dreams. – Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834), lecture on Don Quixote, Cervantes

Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it. – Alexandre Dumas

Fairie tales change reality to magic and vice versa. – Terri Guillemets, “The Magic of Believing,” 2006

“Always remember,” the storyteller told the wide-eyed children, “once-upon-a-time in a tale also means Now.” – Dr.SunWolf, professorsunwolf.com

Years ago, fairy tales all began with “Once upon a time” — now we know they all begin with, “If I am elected.” – Carolyn Warner

When you tell your own fairy tale, you create your own magic. – Terri Guillemets, “Once Upon a Now,” 2004

Life is not a fairy tale. If you lose your shoe at midnight, chance are you will be walking home barefoot. – Author unknown

Every day we all have one foot in a fairy tale and the other in the abyss. – Paulo Coelho

Religions are the great fairy tales of conscience. – George Santayana

“Happily ever after” depends on where we choose to end the story. – Author unknown

Dont ask questions of fairy tales. – Jewish Folk Saying