Why should I laugh?’ asked the old man. ‘Madness in youth is true wisdom. Go, young man, follow your dream, and if you do not find the happiness that you seek, at any rate you...

Life’s more amusing than we thought.

But the three hundred and sixty-five authors who try to write new fairy tales are very tiresome. They always begin with a little boy or girl who goes out and meets the fairies of polyanthuses...

It is so delightful to teach those one loves!

Madame d’Aulnoy is the true mother of the modern fairy tale. She invented the modern Court of Fairyland, with its manners, its fairies, its queens, its amorous, its cruel, its good, its evil, its odious,...

…remember that the danger that is most to be feared is never the danger we are most afraid of.

I fear nothing when I am doing right,’ said Jack.’Then,’ said the lady in the red cap, ‘you are one of those who slay giants.

…she has been bewitched by a wicked sorceress, and will not regain her beauty until she is my wife.”Does she say so? Well if you believe that you may drink cold water and think it...

I don’t think the idea of homosexuality is really taboo any more. Our culture is evolving. This is an exciting time to be living.

You can cover a great deal of country in books.

An unsophisticated forecaster uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp-posts – for support rather than for illumination.

a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who really care for books read all of them. There is no other course.

He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp posts – for support rather than for illumination.

Again, if there are really no fairies, why do people believe in them, all over the world? The ancient Greeks believed, so did the old Egyptians, and the Hindoos, and the Red Indians, and is...

He missed an invaluable opportunity to hold his tongue.