To me in my childhood, elves and fairies of all sorts were very real things, and my dolls were as really children as I was myself a child.

- Annie Besant

I don't really like fairies.

- Amanda Hocking

I don't believe in fairies floating around, and I don't believe in telepathy, but there are things I want to say that just simple real-life stories don't let me say.

- Isobelle Carmody

Do you believe in fairies? Say quick that you believe. If you believe, clap your hands!

- James M. Barrie

I believe in everything until it's disproved. So I believe in fairies, the myths, dragons. It all exists, even if it's in your mind. Who's to say that dreams and nightmares aren't as real as the here and now?

- John Lennon

I was fascinated by fairies when I was growing up, and I wanted to see one dreadfully.

- Laura Amy Schlitz

I have a daughter, and fairies meant a lot to her growing up.

- Michael Sheen

When I wrote 'The Good Fairies of New York,' I wasn't really imagining that there were fairies. Not in the way that I'm really imagining there are werewolves.

- Martin Millar

Come Fairies, take me out of this dull world, for I would ride with you upon the wind and dance upon the mountains like a flame!

- William Butler Yeats