When a new baby laughs for the first time a new fairy is born, and as there are always new babies there are always new fairies. They live in nests on the tops of trees; and the mauve ones are boys and the white ones are girls, and the blue ones are just little sillies who are not sure what they are.

How are these weeds entering our country? Are they being imported? We need to identify their origin so we can stop their spread.

Fairies in Ireland are sometimes as big as we are, sometimes bigger, and sometimes, as I have been told, about three feet high.

It is frightfully difficult to know much about the fairies, and almost the only thing known for certain is that there are fairies wherever there are children.

It is frightfully difficult to know much about the fairies, and almost the only thing for certain is that there are fairies wherever there are children.

I do believe in fairies! I do! I do!

I believe in fairies. Although I can't prove they exist, nobody has ever managed to prove to me that they don't.

Jesus, what planet do they import people like that from?

There may be fairies at the bottom of the garden. There is no evidence for it, but you can't prove that there aren't any, so shouldn't we be agnostic with respect to fairies?

Of course they're real people. They're Oompa-Loompas...Imported direct from Loompaland...And oh what a terrible country it is! Nothing but thick jungles infested by the most dangerous beasts in the world - hornswogglers and snozzwangers and those terrible wicked whangdoodles. A whangdoodle would eat ten Oompa-Loompas for breakfast and come galloping back for a second helping.

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

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

fairies of Grimm and Andersen have brought more happiness to childish hearts than all other human creations.

A country peopled by peasants, priests and pixies.