“ In listening mood she seemed to stand,The guardian Naiad of the strand. ”
- Sir Walter Scott- Copy
- 4K
“ Moons and Junes and Ferris wheels/ The dizzy dancing way you feel/ As every fairy tale comes real/ I've looked at love that way. ”
- Joni Mitchell- Copy
- 3.4K
“ Nature, exerting an unwearied power, Forms, opens, and gives scent to every flower; Spreads the fresh verdure of the field, and leads The dancing Naiads through the dewy meads. ”
- William Cowper- Copy
- 3.5K
“ I have heard the mermaids singing, each to each. I do not think that they will sing to me. ”
- T. S. Eliot- Copy
- 236
“ On desperate seas long wont to roam, Thy hyacinth hair, they classic face, Thy naiad airs have brought me home To the glory that was Greece And the grandeur that was Rome. ”
- Edgar Allan Poe- Copy
- 1.8K
“ Every time a child says, "I don't believe in fairies," there is a fairy somewhere that falls down dead. ”
- James M. Barrie- Copy
- 2.6K
“ I was born an only child in Vienna, Austria. My father found hours to sit by me by the library fire and tell fairy stories. ”
- Hedy Lamarr- Copy
- 3.8K
“ No child but must remember laying his head in the grass, staring into the infinitesimal forest and seeing it grow populous with fairy armies. ”
- Robert Louis Stevenson- Copy
- 2.5K
“ As a child, my mother told me lots of fairy stories, many her own invention. She, too, tended to reverse the norm. ”
- Tanith Lee- Copy
- 2K
“ Blind folk see the fairies. Oh, better far than we, Who miss the shining of their wings Because our eyes are filled with things We do not wish to see. ”
- Rose Fyleman- Copy
- 3.3K
“ Fairies, black, grey, green, and white, You moonshine revellers, and shades of night. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
- 2K
“ Mermaids have no tears, and so they suffer all the more. ”
- Hans Christian Andersen- Copy
- 3.4K
“ No. You see children know such a lot now, they soon don't believe in fairies, and every time a child says, 'I don't believe in fairies,' there is a fairy somewhere that falls down dead. ”
- J. M. Barrie- Copy
- 1.1K
“ Mississippi Mermaid was a very special experience because we only had the dialogues for the scenes we were shooting the night before. ”
- Catherine Deneuve- Copy
- 2.6K
“ The point is, how do you know the Guarantee Fairy isn't a crazy glue sniffer. ”
- Chris Farley- Copy
- 3.8K
“ The iron tongue of midnight hath told twelve. Lovers, to bed; 'tis almost fairy time. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
- 3.5K
“ 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
- 495
“ There was a place in childhood that I remember well, And there a voice of sweetest tone bright fairy tales did tell. ”
- Samuel Lover- Copy
- 1.6K
“ I'll seek a four-leaved shamrock in all thy fairy dells, And if I find the charmed leaves, oh, how I'll weave my spells! ”
- Samuel Lover- Copy
- 1.7K
“ There won't be the same spirit as when Diana was here, but that doesn't mean that Camilla is going to be a flop. ”
- Letitia Baldrige- Copy
- 3.1K
“ Every man needs two women, a quiet home-maker, and a thrilling nymph. ”
- Iris Murdoch- Copy
- 3.7K
“ Every young sculptor seems to think that he must give the world some specimen of indecorous womanhood, and call it Eve, Venus, a Nymph, or any name that may apologize for a lack of decent clothing. ”
- Nathaniel Hawthorne- Copy
- 190
“ Reason is a supple nymph, and slippery as a fish by nature. She had as leave give her kiss to an absurdity any day, as to syllogistic truth. The absurdity may turn out truer. ”
- D. H. Lawrence- Copy
- 2.9K
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