“ In listening mood she seemed to stand,The guardian Naiad of the strand. ”
- Sir Walter Scott- Copy
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“ Come away, O human child! To the waters and the wild With a faery hand in hand, For the world's more full of weeping than you can understand. ”
- William Butler Yeats- Copy
- 2.6K
“ Every time a child says, "I don't believe in fairies," there is a fairy somewhere that falls down dead. ”
- James M. Barrie- Copy
- 1.8K
“ The tooth fairy teaches children that they can sell body parts for money. ”
- David Richerby- Copy
- 1.2K
“ Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too? ”
- Douglas Adams- Copy
- 2.9K
“ Drab Habitation of Whom? Tabernacle or Tomb — or Dome of Worm — or Porch of Gnome — or some Elf's Catacomb? ”
- Emily Dickinson- Copy
- 3K
“ Soft yielding Minds to Water glide away,And sip, with Nymphs, their elemental Tea. ”
- Alexander Pope- Copy
- 3.1K
“ Hold fast the time! Guard it, watch over it, every hour, every minute! Unregarded it slips away, like a lizard, smooth, slippery, faithless, a pixy wife. ”
- Thomas Mann- Copy
- 1.9K
“ Each Bond-street buck conceits, unhappy elf; He shows his clothes! alas! he shows himself. O that they knew, these overdrest self-lovers, What hides the body oft the mind discovers. ”
- John Keats- Copy
- 3.8K
“ We spirits have just such natures We had for all the world, when human creatures; And, therefore, I, that was an actress here, Play all my tricks in hell, a goblin there. ”
- John Dryden- Copy
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“ When I'm able to see the ice ahead of time when I get the puck, I'm able to make some pretty good plays. ”
- Mario Lemieux- Copy
- 3.2K
“ I don t actually believe that stones turn into fairies, but I did once meet someone who had seen a fairy and heard a knocker. ”
- George Lloyd- Copy
- 884
“ I was a great reader of fairy tales. I tried to read the entire fairy tale section of the library: Andrew Lang's Blue Fairy Book, Red Fairy Book, and so on, probably down to the Puce or Chartreuse fairy tales. ”
- Beverly Cleary- Copy
- 1.1K
“ This is a work of fiction. All the characters in it, human and otherwise, are imaginary, excepting only certain of the fairy folk, whom it might be unwise to offend by casting doubts on their existence. Or lack thereof. ”
- Neil Gaiman- Copy
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“ Where is the pride of Summer — the green prime — The many, many leaves all twinkling? — threeOn the mossed elm; three on the naked limeTrembling — and one upon the old oak tree!Where is the Dryad's immortality? ”
- Thomas Hood- Copy
- 2.7K
“ Some say no evil thing that walks by night,In fog or fire, by lake or moorish fen,Blue meagre hag, or stubborn unlaid ghostThat breaks his magic chains at curfew time,No goblin, or swart fairy of the mine,Hath hurtful power o'er true virginity. ”
- John Milton- Copy
- 3.6K
“ For years, people have written me defending of the core goodness of Yoda and — yes! — old Darth. Now, the Defense concedes that Yoda is a nasty, secretive, lying and loathsomely destructive little demon? This from an author, who repeatedly (if cryptically) claims inside knowledge — ex cathedra — from the ultimate source? It's a shock… ”
- David Brin- Copy
- 3K
“ Know you what it is to be a child? It is to be something very different from the man of to-day. It is to have a spirit yet streaming from the waters of baptism; it is to believe in love, to believe in loveliness, to believe in belief; it is to be so little that the elves can reach to whisper in your ear; it is to turn pumpkins into coaches, and mice into horses, lowness into loftiness, and nothing into everything, for each child has its fairy godmother in its own soul. ”
- Francis Thompson- Copy
- 2.8K
“ The greatest things in the world are those that neither men nor children can see. Did you ever see fairies dancing on the lawn? Of course not, but that's no proof that they are not there. ”
- Francis P. Church- Copy
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“ Every man's life is a fairy-tale written by God's fingers. ”
- Hans Christian Andersen- Copy
- 1.3K
“ Everytime a child says 'I don't believe in fairies' there is a a little fairy somewhere that falls down dead. ”
- James M. Barrie- Copy
- 3K
“ Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it. ”
- Alexandre ‘the Younger’ Dumas- Copy
- 1.9K
“ He is only rich who owns the day. There is no king, rich man, fairy, or demon who possesses such power as that. ”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson- Copy
- 1.9K
“ Whoever will be free must make himself free. Freedom is no fairy gift to fall into a man's lap. What is freedom? To have the will to be responsible for one's self. ”
- Max Stirner- Copy
- 808
“ Why should we strive, with cynic frown, to knock their fairy castles down? ”
- Eliza Cook- Copy
- 3K
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