Quotes

Fairy Quotes

A small selection of the many quotations concerning our fey friends:

When the first baby laughed for the first time, the laugh broke into a thousand pieces, and they all went skipping about, and that was the beginning of fairies.
- J.M.Barrie
Every time a child says "I don't believe in fairies' there is a fairy somewhere that falls down dead.
- J.M.Barrie
I think people who can't believe in faeries are not worth knowing.
- Tori Amos
Faerie is a perilous land, and in it are pitfalls for the unwary, and dungeons for the overbold.
- J.R.R. Tolkein
There are fairies at the bottom of our garden.
- Rose Fyleman
Fairy roses, fairy rings, turn out sometimes troublesome things.
- W.M.Thackeray
Fairies are invisible and inaudible like angels. But their magic sparkles in nature
- Lynn Holland
The iron tongue of midnight hath told twelve;
Lovers to bed; 'tis almost fairy time.
- William Shakespeare
Come faeries, take me out of this dull world, for I would ride with you upon the wind and dance upon the mountains like a flame.
- W.B.Yeats
Some say you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.
- C.S.Lewis
The fey wonders of the world only exist while there are those with the sight to see them.
- Charles de Lint
Life itself is the most wonderful fairy tale.
Hans Christian Anderson