Cautionary tales were fantastic in the '70s.

- Alfonso Cuaron

People don't like the true and simple; they like fairy tales and humbug.

- Edmond de Goncourt

The first grown-up book that I read on my own was a nineteenth-century edition of 'Tales from Livy' that I'd found in my grandfather's library.

- Gore Vidal

As a reader, I tend not to get too much from tales of unrelenting grimness.

- Greg van Eekhout

Dead men tell no tales.

- Haniel Long

Fairy tales are really violent, the original ones.

- Jane Levy

He who would tell divers tales must know how to vary the tune.

- Marie de France

I don't know what to think about magic and fairy tales.

- Richard Dawkins