Fairy Quotes

“We read the pagan sacred books with profit and delight. With myth and fable we are ever charmed, and find a pleasure in the endless repetition of the beautiful, poetic, and absurd. We find, in all these records of the past, philosophies and dreams, and efforts stained with tears, of great and tender souls who tried to pierce the mystery of life and death, to answer the eternal questions of the Whence and Whither, and vainly sought to make, with bits of shattered glass, a mirror that would, in very truth, reflect the face and form of Nature's perfect self.

These myths were born of hopes, and fears, and tears, and smiles, and they were touched and colored by all there is of joy and grief between the rosy dawn of birth, and death's sad night. They clothed even the stars with passion, and gave to gods the faults and frailties of the sons of men. In them, the winds and waves were music, and all the lakes, and streams, and springs,—the mountains, woods and perfumed dells were haunted by a thousand fairy forms. They thrilled the veins of Spring with tremulous desire; made tawny Summer's billowed breast the throne and home of love; filled Autumns arms with sun-kissed grapes, and gathered sheaves; and pictured Winter as a weak old king who felt, like Lear upon his withered face, Cordelia's tears. These myths, though false, are beautiful, and have for many ages and in countless ways, enriched the heart and kindled thought. But if the world were taught that all these things are true and all inspired of God, and that eternal punishment will be the lot of him who dares deny or doubt, the sweetest myth of all the Fable World would lose its beauty, and become a scorned and hateful thing to every brave and thoughtful man.”
― Robert G. Ingersoll, Some Mistakes of Moses

“Devic Magic

Woodland sprites, elves and nymphs
Waltz in time take a glimpse
Fairies hide the forest wit
Mushrooms fly, agarics hit”
― William O'Brien, Peter, Enchantment and Stardust: The Poems

“It was an irresistible development of modern illustration (so largely photographic) that borders should be abandoned and the "picture" end only with the paper. This method may be suitable for for photographs; but it is altogether inappropriate for the pictures that illustrate or are inspired by fairy-stories. An enchanted forest requires a margin, even an elaborate border. To print it coterminous with the page, like a "shot" of the Rockies in Picture Post, as if it were indeed a "snap" of fairyland or a "sketch by our artist on the spot", is a folly and an abuse.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, Tolkien On Fairy-stories

“The world would be a brighter, happier place, if we could only remember our childhood wonder.”
― P.J. Roscoe, Freya's Child

“Love is beyond space and time. It reaches out to the heart of the person that you are missing. Love binds two souls and not two bodies.”
― Awwthentic, The Prince and The Fairy

“Oh, hell. You're a fairy," I said.

"Yeah," he said. "You know, they call it 'being gay' nowadays, but sure, whatever.”
― Red Tash, Troll Or Derby

“How different this world to the one about which I used to read, and in which I used to live! This is one peopled by demons, phantoms, vampires, ghouls, boggarts, and nixies. Names of things of which I knew nothing are now so familiar that the creatures themselves appear to have real existence. The Arabian Nights are not more fantastic than our gospels; and Lempriere would have found ours a more marvelous world to catalog than the classical mythical to which he devoted his learning. Ours is a world of luprachaun and clurichaune, deev and cloolie, and through the maze of mystery I have to thread my painful way, now learning how to distinguish oufe from pooka, and nis from pixy; study long screeds upon the doings of effreets and dwergers, or decipher the dwaul of delirious monks who have made homunculi from refuse. Waking or sleeping, the image of some uncouth form is always present to me. What would I not give for a volume by the once despised 'A. L. O. E' or prosy Emma Worboise? Talk of the troubles of Winifred Bertram or Jane Eyre, what are they to mine? Talented authoresses do not seem to know that however terrible it may be to have as a neighbour a mad woman in a tower, it is much worse to have to live in a kitchen with a crocodile. This elementary fact has escaped the notice of writers of fiction; the re-statement of it has induced me to reconsider my decision as to the most longed-for book; my choice now is the Swiss Family Robinson. In it I have no doubt I should find how to make even the crocodile useful, or how to kill it, which would be still better.

("Mysterious Maisie")”
― Wirt Gerrare, Gaslit Nightmares: Stories by Robert W. Chambers, Charles Dickens, Richard Marsh, and Others

“Everything you’re telling me was just a story, and now it’s real.”
― Kathy Bryson, Feeling Lucky

“She is beautiful like an angel, charming like a fairy and sweet like honey.”
― M.F. Moonzajer, A moment with God ; Poetry

“All I ever wanted was to make my parents proud. What happens when I can't be proud of them?" --Shea Evenstar”
― Maximilian Timm, The WishKeeper

“She believes in love, in destiny and she knows ...she feels her prince in her destiny. She just has to wait for the right time.....”
― Awwthentic, The Prince and The Fairy

“A leprechaun did not just kill off my car in a hailstorm.”
― Kathy Bryson, Feeling Lucky

“Grabbing someone’s ass doesn’t count as capturing them!”
― Kathy Bryson, Feeling Lucky

“You didn’t make her sue you, even if you did punch her at that wedding.”
― Kathy Bryson, Feeling Lucky

“Oh, you’re hardly one to talk. Look where ogling a man got you.”
― Kathy Bryson, Feeling Lucky

“I envisioned him tied in a chair, an iron arrow pointed at his brow. Ah, the power of positive thinking.”
― Red Tash, Troll Or Derby

“Bagiku, kepergian tak pernah menyimpan kehilangan, Rayina. Tak pernah ada. Kepergian hanya menyimpan langkah bersamanya. Dan, memang selalu begitu. Aku bukan peminat kehilangan.”
― Widyawati Oktavia, Penjual Kenangan

“As the last dish of confections was removed a weird pageant swept across the further end of the banqueting-room: Oberon and Titania with Robin Goodfellow and the rest, attired in silks and satins gorgeous of hue, and bedizened with such late flowers as were still with us. I leaned forward to commend, and saw that each face was brown and wizened and thin-haired: so that their motions and their wedding paean felt goblin and discomforting; nor could I smile till they departed by the further door.

("The Basilisk")”
― R. Murray Gilchrist, Terror by Gaslight: More Victorian Tales of Terror

“Are you trying to seduce me or trick me?”
― Kathy Bryson, Feeling Lucky

“No one ever said you can’t have world dominance and a little romance too.”
― Kathy Bryson, Feeling Lucky

“A sign read "Free drinks for billiards competitors only." Hand-lettered below read "All others will pay." It was written in blood. I could tell because a red fairy with what looked like black insect wings was writing it at the time, with his own dismembered finger.”
― Red Tash, Troll Or Derby

“Apakah harus kukumpulkan setiap kepingan kehilangan untukmu? Agar kau tahu. Kepergianmu menyimpan kepingan-kepingan kehilangan untukku, Petualang.”
― Widyawati Oktavia, Penjual Kenangan

“Her Prince! He might not be the handsomest man on earth. Not even the richest one too but he would have the purest of the heart and soul and he will love her with the same purity throughout eternity. He would be her Prince.”
― Awwthentic, The Prince and The Fairy

“She might not be cinderella to lose her shoe to find her prince or Rapunzel for that matter who will lift him up to set her free only to be lost in him, or Snow-white to be kissed and awakened by a Prince or any other princesses but yet she knows, she believes her destiny has a Prince in store for her - Her man. She would be his Princess and he would be her prince.”
― Awwthentic, The Prince and The Fairy

“She caught you. Therefore she gets your treasure.”
― Kathy Bryson, Feeling Lucky

“Don’t pinch that guy’s ass. He’s a leprechaun.”
― Kathy Bryson, Feeling Lucky

“It was never just about the money.”
― Kathy Bryson, Feeling Lucky

“I was to be a bride, but whose? Councilor Branwick had assured me that the Council of Citizens would let me know the moment they decided.”
― Lea Carter, Silver Majesty

“–I’m not like that, he says. I’m not a …
Fairy?
–Every time you say that, I whisper, a little part of you will die.”
― Hal Duncan, Scruffians! Stories of Better Sodomites

“Maybe [aliens] have been in our lives a lot longer than we want to admit. People have always seen strange things—elves and fairies—and now we don't. Now we see them, right?”
― Thomm Quackenbush, Artificial Gods