#tales

While we are being fascinated by the tales of famous serial killers and how they were brought to justice, the real serial killer goes about his business with hardly a thought to being caught. ↗

— Pat Brown

#being #brought #business #caught #famous

Fairytales have always got to have that scary quality, as long as you make them laugh. ↗

— Helena Bonham Carter

#fairytales #got #laugh #long #make

It doesn't matter if you're born in a duck yard, so long as you are hatched from a swan's egg! ↗

— Hans Christian Andersen

#beauty #dreams #ducks #empowerment #fairy-tales

I haven't finished revisiting Sleeping Beauty. As a faerie tale, that one is rife with inherent difficulties. After all, the world doesn't stop just because one person is asleep. ↗

— Anna Sheehan

#legends #sleeping-beauty #young-adult #beauty

I surrendered to a world of my imagination, reenacting all those wonderful tales my father would read aloud to me. I became a very active reader, especially history and Shakespeare. ↗

— Andrew Wyeth

#aloud #became #especially #father #history

There are accents in the eye which are not on the tongue, and more tales come from pale lips than can enter an ear. It is both the grandeur and the pain of the remoter moods that they avoid the pathway of sound. ↗

— Thomas Hardy

#avoid #both #come #ear #enter

If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales. ↗

— Albert Einstein

#children #fairy-tales #intelligence

O, to be sure, we laugh less and play less and wear uncomfortable disguises like adults, but beneath the costume is the child we always are, whose needs are simple, whose daily life is still best described by fairy tales. ↗

— Leo Rosten

#fairy-tales #life

There's a great power of imagination about these little creatures, and a creative fancy and belief that is very curious to watch . . . I am sure that horrid matter-of-fact child-rearers . . . do away with the child's most beautiful privilege. I am determined that Anny shall have a very extensive and instructive store of learning in Tom Thumbs, Jack-the-Giant-Killers, etc. ↗

— William Makepeace Thackeray

#children #fairy-tales #upbringing #beauty

All the ancient classic fairy tales have always been scary and dark. ↗

— Helena Bonham Carter

#ancient #been #classic #dark #fairy