Fairy Quotes
This is a collection of quotes and phrases about fairies or featuring fairy imagery and symbols. If you have a quote to contribute, please contact us.
Faeries, come take me out of this dull world,
For I would ride with you upon the wind,
Run on the top of the dishevelled tide,
And dance upon the mountains like a flame.
William Butler Yeats - Famous British poet. This quotes comes from the poem 'The Land of Heart's Desire', written in 1894.
Fairies are invisible and inaudible like angels. But their magic sparkles in nature.
Lynn Holland.
The fairy poet takes a sheet
Of moonbeam, silver white;
His ink is dew from daisies sweet,
His pen a point of light.
Joyce Kilmer.
Spread your wings and let the fairy in you fly!
Author Unknown.
Every man's life is a fairy tale written by God's fingers.
Hans Christian Andersen.
Do you believe in fairies? If you believe clap your hands.
James M. Barrie - Author of the children's novel 'Peter Pan'.
Every time a child says, 'I don't believe in fairies,' there is a fairy somewhere that falls down dead.
James M. Barrie - Author of the children's novel 'Peter Pan'.
I believe in everything until it's disproved. So I believe in fairies, the myths, dragons. It all exists, even if it's in your mind. Who's to say that dreams and nightmares aren't as real as the here and now.
John Lennon - Member of British 60's rock/pop band The Beatles.
"Just living is not enough" said the butterfly fairy, "one must have sunshine, freedom and a little flower."
Hans Christian Andersen - Famous author of countless children's fairy tales.
And though you should live in a palace of gold, or sleep in a dried up ditch,
You could never be as poor as the fairies are, and never as rich.
Rose Fyleman.
Any man can lose his hat in a fairy-wind.
Old Irish Proverb.
There never was a merry world since the fairies left off dancing, and the Parson left conjuring.
John Selden
Wind chimes in your yard will serenade garden creatures - squirrels, fairies and angels.
Author Unknown.
I think that people who can't believe in fairies aren't worth knowing.
Tori Amos - Singer/songwriter.
Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.
C. S. Lewis - A renowned English author, best known for the seven book series 'Narnia', which was recently adapted into a popular hollywood film for children.
Life itself is the most wonderful fairy tale.
Hans Christian Andersen.
The tooth fairy teaches children that they can sell body parts for money.
David Richerby
Do not ask questions of fairy tales.
Jewish Proverb.
If I had influence with the good fairy who is supposed to preside over the christening of all children, I should ask that her gift to each child in the world be a sense of wonder so indestructible that it would last throughout life.
Rachel Carson - Author of 'Silent Spring', a book about how use of modern chemicals in farming are destroying wildlife.
Religions are the great fairy tales of conscience.
George Santayana.
If a child is to keep alive his inborn sense of wonder without any such gift from the fairies, he needs the companionship of at least one adult who can share it, rediscovering with him the joy, excitement and mystery of the world we live in.
Rachel Carson - Author of 'Silent Spring'.
Let the little fairy in you fly!
Rufus Wainwright - Popular, contemporary musician and son of Loudon Wainwright the III a renowned Canadian folk singer.
By fairy hands their knell is rung;
By forms unseen their dirge is sung.
William Collins.
Of all the minor creatures of mythology, fairies are the most beautiful, the most numerous, the most memorable.
Andrew Lang.
The fairies break their dances
And leave the printed lawn.
A.E. Housman.
Fairy roses, fairy rings, turn out sometimes troublesome things.
William Makepeace Thackeray.
Nothing can be truer than fairy wisdom. It is as true as sunbeams.
Douglas Jerrold.