“The objection to fairy stories is that they tell children there are dragons. But children have always known there are dragons. Fairy stories tell children that dragons can be killed.” ChildrenStoriesKnownFairyDragonsObjectionsFairy Stories Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton
“It is possible that our race may be an accident, in a meaningless universe, living its brief life uncared for, on this dark, cooling star: but even so - and all the more - what marvelous creatures we are! What fairy story, what tale from the Arabian Nights of the jinns, is a hundredth part as wonderful as this true fairy story of simians! It is so much more heartening, too, than the tales we invent. A universe capable of giving birth to many such accidents is - blind or not - a good world to live in, a promising universe. . . . We once thought we lived on God's footstool, it may be a throne.” WorldLifeGivingMayStoriesNightUniverseStarsDarkRaceWonderfulBirthCreaturesCapableBlindAccidentsTalesFairyMeaninglessThronesMarvelousGiving BirthCoolingArabianFairy StoriesJinnArabian NightsBrief Life Author:Clarence Day
“I was always fascinated by fairy stories, fantasy, you know, demons, necromancers, gods and goddesses, everything that is out of our kin and out of our everyday world. I was always interested in enchantment and magicians and still am.” KnowsWorldStillsStoriesFantasyEverydayDemonFairyFascinatedGoddessMagicianEnchantmentFairy StoriesGods And Goddesses Author:Christopher Lee
“As this world becomes increasingly ugly, callous and materialistic it needs to be reminded that the old fairy stories are rooted in truth, that imagination is of value, that happy endings do, in fact, occur, and that the blue spring mist that make an ugly street look beautiful is just as real a thing as the street itself.” WorldNeedsLooksRealFactsStoriesBeautifulValuesImaginationStreetsThis WorldSpringBlueUglyFairyRootedMistHappy EndingsMaterialisticCallousFairy Stories Author:Elizabeth Goudge
“In his anti-Darwinian book... (and eponymously named The Neck of the Giraffe ), Francis Hitching tells the story... "The need to survive by reaching ever higher for food is, like so many Darwinian explanations of its kind, little more than a post hoc speculation." Hitching is quite correct, but he rebuts a fairy story that Darwin was far too smart to tell - even though the tale later entered our high school texts as a "classic case" nonetheless.” NeedsKindLittlesBookStoriesSchoolCasesHigherSmartHigh SchoolTalesPostsExplanationClassicFairyNecksReachingSpeculationGiraffeFairy Stories Author:Stephen Jay Gould
“Creationists reject Darwin's theory of evolution on the grounds that it is "just a theory". This is a valid criticism: evolution is indeed merely "a theory", albeit one with ten billion times more credence than the theory of creationism - although, to be fair, the theory of creationism is more than just a theory. It's also a fairy story. And children love fairy stories, which is presumably why so many creationists are keen to have their whimsical gibberish taught in schools.” ChildrenStoriesSchoolTaughtTheoryEvolutionTenFairsCriticismBillionsFairyRejectsChildren LoveCreationismTheory Of EvolutionWhimsicalCredenceFairy Stories Author:Charlie Brooker
“I was the original Cinderella girl, looking for the happy ending in the fairy story. But my fantasy prince never came.” StoriesGirlFantasyOriginalsFairyHappy EndingsFairy Stories Author:Evelyn Keyes