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 Hinduism, and the Red Indians, and is it likely, if there are no fairies, that so many different peoples would have seen and heard them?

— Andrew Lang

And then they lived happily, and we who hear the story are happier still.

— Andrew Lang

And the old woman who had been the prince’s nurse became nurse to the prince’s children — at least she was called so; though she was far too old to do anything for them but love them. Yet she still thought that she was useful, and knew that she was happy. And happy, indeed, were the prince and princess, who in due time became king and queen, and lived and ruled long and prosperously.

— Andrew Lang

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 and gardenias and apple blossoms: 'Flowers and fruits, and other winged things.' These fairies try to be funny, and fail; or they try to preach, and succeed.

— Andrew Lang

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.

— Andrew Lang

In literature, as in love, one can only speak for himself.

— Andrew Lang

It is so delightful to teach those one loves!

— Andrew Lang

It takes all sorts to make a world,” some are soldiers from the cradle, some merchants, some orators; nothing but a love of books was the gift given to me by the fairies.

— Andrew Lang

Life's more amusing than we thought.

— Andrew Lang

Madame d'Alloy 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, it's good, its evil, its odious, its friendly fees.

— Andrew Lang