Quotes with fairy

  • Every time a child says 'I don't believe in fairies' there is a little fairy somewhere that falls down dead.
  • Deceit is the false road to happiness; and all the joys we travel through to vice, like fairy banquets, vanish when we touch them.

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  • Sir James Matthew Barrie Every time a child says, ''I don't believe in fairies,'' there is a fairy somewhere that falls down dead.
    Sir James Matthew Barrie
    British playwright (1860 - 1937)
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  • Bertrand Russell All fear is bad, and ought to be overcome not by fairy tales, but by courage and rational reflection.
    On Fear
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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  • Aaron Hill Deceit is the false road to happiness; and all the joys we travel through to vice, like fairy banquets, vanish when we touch them.
    Aaron Hill
    English dramatist and writer (1685 - 1750)
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  • Caitlin Flanagan Divorce in a young-adult novel means what being orphaned meant in a fairy tale: vulnerability, danger, unwanted independence.
    Caitlin Flanagan
    American writer
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  • Hans Christian Andersen Every man's life is a fairy tale written by God's finger.
    Hans Christian Andersen
    Deens poet and fairy tale writer (1805 - 1875)
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  • Sir James Matthew Barrie Every time a child says 'I don't believe in fairies' there is a little fairy somewhere that falls down dead.
    Peter Pan (1904)
    Sir James Matthew Barrie
    British playwright (1860 - 1937)
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  • Carolyn Leigh Fairy tales can come true, It can happen to you If you're young at heart.
    Young at Heart (1954)
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  • Carlo Collodi Fancy the happiness of Pinocchio on finding himself free! Without saying yes or no, he fled from the city and set out on the road that was to take him back to the house of the lovely Fairy.
    Pinocchio
    Carlo Collodi
    Italian author, humorist and journalist (1826 - 1890)
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  • Bill Dedman Fans love Sosa for his exuberance, for the kisses he blows to his mother, wife and four children. He is Slammin' Sammy, a fairy-tale figure rising from poverty in the Dominican Republic to the 55th floor above Chicago's Lake Shore Drive.
    Bill Dedman
    American journalist (1960 - )
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  • Alexandre Dumas père Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it.
    Alexandre Dumas père
    French writer (1802 - 1870)
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  • Alice Hoffman I also like the whole idea of fairy tales and folk tales being a woman's domain, considered a lesser domain at the time they were told.
    Alice Hoffman
    American novelist (1952 - )
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  • Alice Hoffman I also like the whole idea of fairy tales and folk tales being a woman's domain, considered a lesser domain at the time they were told.
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  • Alice Hoffman I always felt and still feel that fairy tales have an emotional truth that is so deep that there are few things that really rival them.
    Alice Hoffman
    American novelist (1952 - )
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  • Alice Hoffman I always felt and still feel that fairy tales have an emotional truth that is so deep that there are few things that really rival them.
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  • Stephen Hawking I regard the brain as a computer which will stop working when its components fail. There is no heaven or afterlife for broken down computers; that is a fairy story for people afraid of the dark.
    The Guardian (15 May 2011)
    Stephen Hawking
    English theoretical physicist, cosmologist, author and Director (1942 - 2018)
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  • Eleanor Roosevelt I think, at a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift would be curiosity.
    Eleanor Roosevelt
    American "First Lady" and columnist (1884 - 1962)
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  • Audrey Hepburn If I'm honest I have to tell you I still read fairy-tales and I like them best of all.
    Audrey Hepburn
    British actress, model, dancer and humanitarian (1929 - 1993)
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  • Danielle Steel If you see the magic in a fairy tale, you can face the future.
    Danielle Steel
    American writer (1947 - )
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  • George Santayana Religions are the great fairy tales of conscience.
    George Santayana
    Spanish - American philosopher (1863 - 1952)
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  • C. S. Lewis Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.
    The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (1950)
    C. S. Lewis
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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