Fairy Quotes

Religions are the great fairy tales of conscience
- George Santayana

The land of fairy, where nobody gets old and godly and grave, where nobody gets old and crafty and wise, where nobody gets old and bitter of tongue.
- William Butler Yeats

Any man can lose his hat in a fairy-wind
- Irish Sayings

Why should we strive, with cynic frown, to knock their fairy castles down?
- Eliza Cook

Stories are like fairy gold, the more you give away, the more you have.
- Anonymous Author

There never was a merry world since the fairies left off dancing, and the Parson left conjuring.
- John Selden

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

We call them faerie. We don't believe in them. Our loss.
- Charles de Lint

Life itself is the most wonderful fairy tale.
- Hans Christian Andersen

Fairy Tales are more than true; not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.
- G. K. Chesterton