Fairytale Quotes About Love for Cards and Weddings

These fairytale quotes about love are for anniversary cards, wedding signs and the kind of note you leave on someone’s coffee mug. Some come from old storybooks, some from the movies, and a few from Shakespeare’s fairy-filled forest.

If love is only part of the card, the full set of fairytale quote collections covers life lessons, kids and birthdays too.

A lot of the “fairytale love quotes” floating around online are really song lyrics, so we left those out and kept the spoken lines. Need something for a whole family? Our quotes from fairy tales cover every kind of story.

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Quick Picks: Fairytale Quotes About Love

Sweet enough for a card, short enough for a cake topper.

“It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.” (the fox, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince)
“As you wish.” (Westley, The Princess Bride (1987))
“Some people are worth melting for.” (Olaf, Frozen (2013))
“The course of true love never did run smooth.” (William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream)
“Happily ever after starts on an ordinary Tuesday.”

The last one is an original 3BoysAndADog saying.

Love Quotes From Classic Fairy Tales

The storybook versions, straight from the page.

Hans Christian Andersen

“And they both sat there, grown up, yet children at heart; and it was summer, warm, beautiful summer.”
Hans Christian Andersen, The Snow Queen

“Thou art mine, and I am thine, and no one in the world can alter that.” (Brothers Grimm, “The Twelve Huntsmen” (wording varies by translation))
“Oh, ’tis love, ’tis love, that makes the world go round!” (the Duchess, Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland)
“It is the time you have wasted for your rose that makes your rose so important.” (the fox, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince)
“True love reads the whole story, not just the happy ending.”
“Every fairy tale needs someone worth the adventure.”

The last two are original 3BoysAndADog sayings.

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Fairytale Movie Quotes About Love

Snowmen, farm boys and a girl with a lot of hair.

“Love is putting someone else’s needs before yours.” (Olaf, Frozen (2013))
“This is true love. You think this happens every day?” (Westley, The Princess Bride (1987))
“I never knew how much I loved you until just now, when I feared I was too late to save your life.” (popular saying, often credited to Beauty and the Beast)
“A real prince shows up with snacks.”
“Love is choosing the same person in every chapter.”

Tangled

“You were my new dream.”
Rapunzel, Tangled (2010)

We could not find the third line in any Beauty and the Beast movie, so it is labeled a popular saying. The last two are original 3BoysAndADog sayings.

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Romantic Quotes About Love and Magic

For the dreamy side of love, fairies included.

From the fairy forest

“Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, and therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.”
Helena, A Midsummer Night’s Dream

“I’ll hold you in my heart, until I can hold you in my arms.”
“Love is the only spell that gets stronger when you share it.”
“Once upon a time, I met you. That’s my favorite story.”
“Our story doesn’t need a castle.”
“You’re my once upon a time.”

The first one is a popular saying that is often pinned to Peter Pan, though it is not from Barrie’s book. The rest are original 3BoysAndADog sayings.