Inspirational Quotes on Fairies

“[The materialist] thinks me a slave because I am not allowed to believe in determinism. I think [the materialist] a slave because he is not allowed to believe in fairies.”

“There must be fairies; for this is a fairy tale: and how can one have a fairy tale if there are no fairies?”

“Now the wicked fairies will not be bound by the laws which the good fairies obey, and this always seems to give the bad advantage over the good, for they use means to gain their ends which others will not. But it is all of no consequence, for what they do never succeeds; Nay, in the end it brings about the very thing they are trying to prevent. So you see for all their cleverness, wicked fairies are dreadfully stupid, for, although from the beginning of the world they have really helped instead of thwarting the good fairies, not one of them is a bit wiser for it.”

“It was not a bed with curtains, but a bed with doors like shutters. This may not seem like a nice way of having a bed, but we would all be glad of the wooden curtains about us at night if we lived in such a cottage, on the side of a hill along which the wind swept like a wild river. Through the cottage it would be streaming all night long. And a poor woman with a cough, or a man who has been out in the cold all day, is very glad of such a place to lie in, and leave the the rest of the house to the wind and the fairies.”