quotations about fairies
It is pardonable for children to yell that they believe in fairies, but it is somehow sinister when the piping note shifts from the puerile to the senile.
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS
Arguably: Selected Essays
There are two main types of fairies -- domestic and wild. Domestic fairies are often kinder and involve themselves in the affairs of humans. Wild fairies, however, are far more dangerous and will harm or kill any human who tries to interfere with them.
EVAN LANSING SMITH
The Complete Idiot's Guide to World Mythology
About the time he threatened her nose with his finger, Peaseblossom lost her grip on the situation with the boys. The door crashed open, and three irate fairies launched themselves at the Stage Manager. Cobweb and Moth pelted him with sequins while Mustardseed rammed beads into his ears. "Dance!" they commanded, and dance he did, hopping with impotent anger and pain from one foot to the other as he batted his meaty hands at them.
LISA MANTCHEV
Eyes Like Stars
On every side there are fairies, and therefore on every side loveliness and happiness. If adults could but recapture the simplicity and directness of children even in some small degree, they too would recover the lost land of happiness that is the kingdom of the Little People, for fairies would delight in becoming their simple friends, always to be depended upon, always kind.
DORA VAN GELDER KUNZ
The Real World of Fairies: A First-Person Account
It annoys the fairies very much to think that people are stopping believing in them. They are very proud people, and think a lot of themselves. They can, if they like, do us good, and they think us ungrateful when we forget about them. Sometimes in the past people have gone on forgetting about fairies more and more and more, until at last they have stopped believing in them altogether. The fairies meanwhile have been looking after their own affairs, and it is their fault more than ours when we forget about them. But when this has gone on for too long a time the fairies wake up and find out by a way they have that men have stopped believing in them, and get very much annoyed. Then some fairy proposes that a map of the way to Fairyland should be drawn up and given to the people; but this is always voted down; and at last they make up their minds to wake people up to Fairyland by going and visiting this world, and by spells bringing several people into their kingdom and so getting witnesses. For, as you can imagine, it is a most unpleasant thing to be really important and for other people not to know it.
HILAIRE BELLOC
"The Way to Fairyland", On Something
Science seeks to explain everything--but maybe we don't want everything explained. We don't want all the magic to go out of life. We want to remain connected to the secret parts of our inner beings, to the ancient mysteries, and to the most distant outposts of the universe. We want to believe. And as long as we do, the fairies will remain.
SKYE ALEXANDER
Fairies: The Myths, Legends & Lore
Her lips were frosted with sugar and faeriedust.
ALLYSE NEAR
Fairytales for Wilde Girls
Fairies don't live long, but they are so little that a short time seems a good while to them.
J. M. BARRIE
Peter Pan
The dances ended, all the fairy train
For pinks and daisies search'd the flow'ry plain.
ALEXANDER POPE
January and May
The country people, indeed, did not always clearly distinguish between the Fairies and the dead. They called them both the "Silent People"; and the Milky Way they thought was the path along which the dead were carried to Fairyland.
HOPE MIRRLEES
Lud-in-the-Mist
Because elves and fairies are living aspects of the divine Earth, the best way to commune with the magical energy of elves and fairies is to go out and experience nature. When you are in a flower garden and everything is in bloom, and all around are butterflies and dragonflies, it's much easier to see and commune with elves and fairies. They seem to pop out everywhere, spreading their joy and merriment wherever they go.
SIRONA KNIGHT
The Complete Idiot's Guide to Elves And Fairies
Fairies, black, grey, green, and white,
You moonshine revellers, and shades of night.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Merry Wives of Windsor