Wise expressions and catchphrases from fairy tales

2024 Author: Leah Sherlock | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 05:25

Remember we once believed in fairy tales? They imagined themselves as noble knights, beautiful princesses, kind wizards, and from morning till night they fought with dragons and monsters visible only to us. Time passed, we matured, and fairy tales remained just fairy tales - children's illusions that gather dust on a bookshelf. But, as Clive Lewis said, one day we will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again. In this he is absolutely right, because thanks to these stories we have become who we are. And when it becomes unbearably hard, it is worth remembering the magic phrases from fairy tales, because only as adults do we begin to understand their true meaning.

Happiness needs a heart

The first thing I would like to start with a list of phrases from fairy tales is the statement that reason, intellect and brains are not the main thing in life. Alexander Volkov in The Wizard of the Emerald City wrote:

―I used to have brains,‖ the Tin Woodman explained. But now that you have to choose betweenbrains and heart, I prefer the heart. Brains do not make a person happy, and happiness is the best thing on earth.

Indeed, you can read thousands of books, invent hundreds of new formulas and theorems, know the answers to all questions, but what's the point if the heart, disfigured by dry scientific facts and logic, can no longer enjoy simple things? Being smart is good, but being happy is doubly better.

Today, people are increasingly starting to talk about how much they have read, list authors and their works. But apart from a brief summary (consisting of 3-4 sentences), they can’t say anything. They consider themselves smart because they read, but outside the window is not the deep Middle Ages, when writing was the lot of the elite and noble. Everyone knows how to read, but only a few understand the essence of what is written. Truly smart people don't brag about the fact that they managed to remember a complex definition, they are happy that they were able to understand it. After all, understanding usually comes not from the mind, but from the heart. Here is such a paradox of phrases from fairy tales that you begin to understand only after several decades.

Friendship

More catchphrases from fairy tales teach to be friends. In these naive and simple stories, one can see friendship as it should be: without lies and pretense, without hypocrisy and deceit, without unjustified hopes and betrayal. It is so strange that in childhood, having read fairy tales, we above all ex alt the bonds of friendship, but as adults, we forget about their sincerity, choosing as our associates those from whommay be useful. Here are a few phrases from movies and fairy tales that explain simple and long-forgotten truths:

– How good it is that we have each other! The little bear nodded. - Just imagine: I'm not here, you're sitting alone and there's no one to talk to. - So, where are you? “But I just don’t. “That doesn’t happen,” said Little Bear. “I think so too,” said the Hedgehog. “But all of a sudden, I don’t exist at all. You are alone. Well, what are you going to do? (…) - Why are you pestering me? - Bear cub got angry. If you are not, then I am not. Got it?

- I'm sure you hear? I will, - said the Bear cub. The hedgehog nodded. - I will definitely come to you, no matter what happens. I will always be by your side. The hedgehog looked at the Bear cub with quiet eyes and was silent. - Well, what are you silent? - I believe, - said the Hedgehog.

Both dialogues are taken from Sergei Kozlov's "Hedgehog in the Fog". Ingenuity and unshakable confidence in your friend - that's what real friendship means. The bear cub and the hedgehog drank tea together every evening and counted the stars. They were ready at any moment to come to the aid of each other, and even the thought could not admit that one day one of them would not be. It's a pity, in the real world, friends are not always so lucky. People tend to forget about those with whom they used to have a good time if they find something more interesting and profitable.

The main thing is the other paw

Continuing the theme of phrases from fairy tales about friendship, it will be relevant to quote from the work of Natalia Sizonenko "Little Fox":

- Little fox, - said the little fox to the little fox, - please rememberthat if it’s hard for you, bad, sad, scared, if you’re tired, you just stretch out your paw. And I will give you mine, wherever you are, even if there are other stars or everyone walks on their heads. Because the sadness of one fox divided into two cubs is not at all scary. And when another paw holds you by the paw - what difference does it make what else is there in the world?

Really, what difference does it make what else there is in this world when you're not fighting alone. When someone will support any of your choices, and if he sees that you are doing badly, he will guide you on the right path. Before the bonds of true friendship, even death becomes powerless.

That's just not enough modern man loy alty and nobility. Now these qualities are perceived as something special, unique and incredible, but in reality they should be taken for granted. No matter how cynical it may sound, but a person certainly needs to learn manners from dogs, only they know what disinterestedness, loy alty and devotion are:

No dog in the world considers ordinary loy alty something unusual. But people came up with the idea of ex alting this feeling of a dog as a feat only because not all of them and not so often have loy alty to a friend and loy alty to duty so much that this is the root of life, the natural foundation of the being itself, when the nobility of the soul is a matter of course.

This is exactly what Gavril Troepolsky writes in the book "White Bim Black Ear". The author wrote that friendship and devotion becamereal happiness, because no one demanded more from another than he could give. Here, no one manipulates the concept of friendship for their own benefit, but in the real world this is not uncommon.

Say nice things

True friendship still exists, it's a pity that it is rare. True, no one knows where and whom she will overtake, so you need to learn from Carlson how to properly treat a friend. The famous phrase from Astrid Lindgren's fairy tale hides the biggest secret of warm, sincere and real friendships, and nothing that is covered with a touch of humor:

– One call is "Come immediately!", two calls - "Do not fly by any means!" and a brave man like you, the best Carlson in the world!"

– Why should I call for this? – the Kid was surprised.

– And then that you have to say nice and encouraging things to your friends about every five minutes, and you yourself understand that I can’t fly to you so often.

Indeed, friends need to say nice things from time to time, especially when they feel bad. Any person will be pleased to realize the fact that they believe in him and support him. Friendship is not only a fun pastime, but also a great responsibility, because it takes courage to give another person a shoulder when he needs it most.

Kindness

Phrases from fairy tales every time remind us to be kind. Kindness is precisely the currency that will never depreciate anywhere. Alexander Volkov in The Wizard of the Emerald City wrote these words:

You know, I have no heart, but I always try to help the weak in trouble, even if it's just a gray mouse!

Each person can help the weak, but few people do not feel the desire to benefit. Kindness does not imply such concepts as "self-interest" or "greed". Some philosophers believed that being kind is a talent, the same as an absolute ear for music, only more rare. In some ways, they are right, although on the other hand, kindness is a quality that is inherent in every person from birth.

Only with age it transforms, turns pale, and even disappears altogether. And only catchphrases from fairy tales can teach children that good always triumphs over evil. If a person is kind, he can be forgiven for any mistake:

Maybe she doesn't always know how to behave herself. But she has a good heart, which is more important.

This phrase from the fairy tale for children "Pippi Longstocking" by Astrid Lindgren shows how cordially and favorably others treat a kind person. The main character of the story does not attend educational institutions, she is untidy, a little ill-mannered, lives by her own rules. But all these shortcomings are not so important for others when they see how the girl is kind (albeit a little rude) to her friends. Take the birthday episode for example:

“Today is not our birthday,” the children said. Pippi looked at them in surprise and said: “But it’s my birthday today.” Can't I please myself to give you gifts? Maybe your textbooks say it's forbidden? Maybe, according to this very table of respect, it turns out that you can’t do this?

This girl lives by the rules that her heart dictates, so she is always right. As the heroine says: "When the heart is hot and beating strongly, it is impossible to freeze." She uses these words when the fairy tale talks about physical cold. But any adult person will one day understand that here we are not talking about frost, but about spiritual dryness and stinginess that make us lonely, unfriendly and deeply unhappy.

Power and happiness

Besides kindness, fairy tales often talk about strength. Not physical or magical, but about the one before which trees bow, mountains move apart and which all living things serve. Hans Christian Andersen wrote these words in The Snow Queen:

Stronger than she is, I can't make her. Don't you see how great her power is? Don't you see that both people and animals serve her? After all, she walked around half the world barefoot! It's not for us to borrow her strength! The strength is in her sweet, innocent baby heart.

Before perseverance, determination and lack of malice, no one can resist. People will not even be aware that they are helping such a person and they will do it with great pleasure. Others do this because they want to become (albeit for a short moment)part of this persistent movement forward. Adults often forget that in order to achieve what they want, first of all, you need to go without stopping.

But most often fairy tales talk about happiness. The reader is explained what it is and what it consists of. A person is mistaken in many ways, thinking that happiness is material we alth, being with someone in a pair or a successful career. Happiness is not determined by external indicators, it can be said that it is an internal state or an innate feature that many are not even aware of:

This story is about a simple little boy named Charlie Bucket. He was not faster, stronger or smarter than other children. His parents had neither we alth, nor influence, nor connections, and in general they barely made ends meet. Charlie Bucket was the happiest boy in the whole wide world, he just didn't know it.

Roald Dahl in the fairy tale "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" said that happiness attracts happiness. The protagonist of the tale lived in a family that barely made ends meet, but he did not feel somehow flawed or unhappy. The boy was happy that he had such a friendly and loving family, and he did not think about anything else.

And the Queen was happy for a very good reason - because the King was happy.

Pamela Travers in her book "Mary Poppins" aptly noted that a person can experience happiness when someone who is dear to him is happy. Even today no one can explain why this happens. Maybe happiness isa kind of virus that is transmitted by airborne droplets, and if one person gets terminally ill, how does everyone around get infected?! In a word, happiness is another thing. And it also depends on ourselves, only we decide with whom we will go through life and what principles we will be guided by. But most importantly, it is we who make the choice to be happy or not to be.

One can cite many examples from life when people deliberately give up their happiness, guided by public opinion or imaginary values. They continue to pull their life strap, believing that someday it will definitely get better:

It can't be that everything is bad and bad - because someday it must be good! (Sergey Kozlov "Little snow was falling. There was a thaw")

Of course, someday it will definitely get better, you just have to allow this “something better” to come. Open the door for him and invite him. You don’t need to chase happiness, you can’t catch up with it, and you don’t need to turn away from it - it takes offense and leaves forever. Happiness is our thoughts and actions, our values and attitudes, our aspirations and hopes. Only those who are truly happy can fly. Happiness is hidden in simple things: in a spring shower, apple blossoms, sunshine. If a person can see, feel, admire all this, then he is already 70% lucky, because there are people in the world who are much less fortunate.

Philosophy is not for children

Often, along with simple themes, children's fairy tales tell about things that even adults find it difficult to understand. As an exampleConsider the fairy tale "Alice in Wonderland" by Lewis Carroll. During his lifetime, the author was considered mentally ill, some of his opponents even showed the written “Alice”, exclaiming with righteous bewilderment: “How can a normal person write such a thing ?!” Indeed, for that time, L. Carroll thought too outside the box:

You know, one of the biggest casu alties in a battle is head loss.

Where do I go from here, please? - Where do you want to go? - answered the Cat. - I don't care … - said Alice. “Then it doesn’t matter where you go,” said the Cat. - … just to get somewhere, - Alice explained. "You're bound to get somewhere," said the Cat. - You just need to walk long enough.

His philosophy was incomprehensible, but in this tale you can find as many important things as some people fail to comprehend in a lifetime.

The work of Antoine da Saint-Exupery "The Little Prince" has no less effect. Of course, it did not stand out as contrastingly in his time as "Alice in Wonderland", but this is exactly the copy that can be re-read hundreds of times and constantly find something new.

Your rose is so dear to you because you gave her all your days.

For some reason, I want to focus on this particular phrase. It is strange that in a children's book there is a statement that not every person who has lived his life will understand. In all interpersonal relationships, there is someone who invests more in them. When they collapse for some reason, hesuffers more. It's just that it's much easier for a person to continue unsuccessfully investing time and effort than to admit defeat to himself.

I also want to note quotes that are often used for competitions: phrases from fairy tales are read to the participants, and they try to guess where they came from. The most popular quotes from The Little Prince are:

You are forever responsible for everyone you tamed.

Only the heart is vigilant. You can't see the most important thing with your eyes.

Words only get in the way of understanding each other.

You live in your actions, not in your body. You are your actions and there is no other you.

Phrases from Russian fairy tales

Good sayings are present not only in fairy tales of foreign authors or writers of modern times. A lot of wisdom can be learned from Russian folk tales. As they say, a fairy tale is a lie, but there is a lesson in it.

In Russian folk tales, phrases, wise thoughts are a little rude, devoid of literary sophistication and the charm of a writer's style, but even a person who is not trained in reading can perceive them the first time. There are no hints and understatement, everything is simple - the event, behavior and consequence are described. Sometimes an explanation is even given as to why someone did so and received such a punishment. Here are a few phrases from folk tales that will confirm this statement:

Soon a fairy tale affects, but not soon the deed is done.

As in the hands of a robber - he is always your friend, but when you let him go - you will cry with him again.

Trading people surrounded me, they began to take travel money from me. The more I amI give, the more they want.

Every creature has organs that indicate its place in the world. For a person, this organ is the mind.

Courage takes cities.

There is nothing to add here - everything is as simple as twice two, and you do not need to go into philosophical reflections or introspection to understand what the author was trying to inform his reader about.

Pushkin's Tales

I would like to separately note the phrases from Pushkin's fairy tales, which managed to become winged.

Rereading fairy tales, a person not only learns important lessons from them, but also makes his language rich and diverse. This is especially true for Pushkin's fairy tales. These works are special in their own way, because they left us figurative expressions, memorable characters and eternal wisdom as a legacy. The trace that the poet left in the form of winged words and expressions is amazing. Sometimes it seems that if we do not use Pushkin's phrases, then our entire speech will lose all its brightness and saturation.

Alexander Pushkin began to be quoted already when his first works appeared in print. The word of the poet was in conversations, private letters, journal reviews and reviews. Even fairy tales were quoted, here are some of the most popular expressions:

And a star burns in the forehead.

Squirrel sings songs and nibbles everything.

Spruce grows in front of the palace, and under it is a crystal house.

Life beyond the sea is not bad.

Hello, my beautiful prince!

Churches domes shine.

If I wasQueen.

Fool you, simple -acted!

al, will you refuse to answer me?

in that hole, in the darkness of a sad.

Wind! Wind!

You are beautiful, no doubt.

Am I in the world of all mele?

A lesson for good fellows.

But it is costly to quarrel with something else.

The fairy tale is a lie, but there is a hint in it!

Reign, lying on your side!

Such phrases from Russian fairy tales for people uninitiated in them may seem like complete nonsense and absurdity. But those who read Pushkin understand what the poet wanted to say. This is exactly the case when the meaning of the phrase is not hidden under the mask of philosophy, but can be traced in the context of the work itself.

Phrases from the fairy tales "Pinocchio" and "Morozko"

Exploring the fabulous world of Russian literature, one cannot ignore such works as Pinocchio and Morozko. These fairy tales are completely different in plot, but there is something similar in their general idea. For example, in Pinocchio, the author tries to show the reader that there is no need to look for easy ways to achieve the goal; even if you are dexterous, brave and brilliant in some way, this does not exempt you from using the rules of decency and is not a reason to consider yourself better than others.

Shadows dance on the wall -

Nothing scares me.

Let the stairs be steep, Let the darkness be dangerous, Still underground way

Will lead somewhere…

Don't think, Pinocchio, that if you fought with dogs and won, saved us from Karabas Barabas and behaved courageously in the future, then this saves you the need to wash your hands andbrush your teeth before eating…

- You have committed three crimes, scoundrel: you are homeless, without a passport and unemployed.

In the fairy tale "Morozko" something similar happens. Two storylines are intertwined here: one tells about the life of a simple and kind girl who is bullied by her stepmother, and the other is about a young guy who is good at everything, but is too proud, arrogant and selfish. After going through many trials, the guy realizes his mistakes and corrects himself (the same thing happens with the hero of the fairy tale "Pinocchio"). Here are some wise phrases from the fairy tale "Morozko":

Know that one penny is not enough for a good deed!

If you weren't ignorant, you wouldn't walk with a bear's face.

By the fireplace

There are a large number of fairy tales in the world, and each story is a story about simple human values that will always be in fashion. It is always nice to return to fairy tales, no matter how old a person is. In these stories you can find a lot of amazing things, and each time it becomes incomprehensible how it was possible not to notice them at first. Sometimes it seems that fairy tales grow up with us. You can re-read the same work every five years and constantly find new sayings, episodes, tips.

Although, if you think about it, it's not the content that changes, but we ourselves. Based on the accumulated life experience, a person interprets individual fragments in his own way. He pays more attention to some, to others less, and to others he does not notice at all. And only completely grown old, having gone almost to the endyour life path, you should sit by the hot fireplace and reread your favorite fairy tale for the last time. Just like in the first one, she will again open the door to the magical world for a person, where he will present himself as a noble knight, a kind wizard or a beautiful princess. And again he will engage in battle with only monsters and dragons visible to him.

Fairy tales, they are like that - first they open the world of magic before you, and then they teach you wisdom. And if a person adequately learns all the proposed lessons, then the entrance to the fairy-tale world will always be open to him. The only pity is that, ceasing to believe in fairy tales, we forget that the world on the other side of the magic doors is a reality that we ourselves can create.