Quotes from Grimm's Fairy Tales

“Mirror, mirror, here I stand. Who is the fairest in the land?”
― Jacob Grimm, quote from Grimm's Fairy Tales

“He who helped you when you were in trouble ought not afterwards be despised by you”
― Jacob Grimm, quote from Grimm's Fairy Tales

“They were indeed great rascals, and belonged to that class of people who find things before they are lost.”
― Jacob Grimm, quote from Grimm's Fairy Tales

“He who is too well off is always longing for something new.”
― Jacob Grimm, quote from Grimm's Fairy Tales

“In the olden days, when wishing still worked, there lived a king whose daughters were all beautiful, but the youngest daughter was so lovely that even the sun... was struck with wonder.”
― Jacob Grimm, quote from Grimm's Fairy Tales

“Evil is also not anything small or close to home, and not the worst; otherwise one could grow accustomed to it.”
― Jacob Grimm, quote from Grimm's Fairy Tales

“Then up he got with a light heart, free from all his troubles, and walked on till he reached his mother's house, and told her how very easy the road to good luck was.”
― Jacob Grimm, quote from Grimm's Fairy Tales

“One day the grandmother presented the little girl with a red velvet riding hood; and as it fitted her very well, she would never wear anything else; and so she was called Little Red Riding Hood.”
― Jacob Grimm, quote from Grimm's Fairy Tales

“Thus it is with proud silly people, who think themselves above everyone else, and are too proud to ask or take advice.”
― Jacob Grimm, quote from Grimm's Fairy Tales

“Alas, wife, what are you saying?'

'Husband,' said she. 'If I can't order the moon and sun to rise, and have to look on and see the sun and moon rising, I can't bear it. I shall not know what it is to have another happy hour, unless I can make them rise myself.'

Then she looked at him so terribly that a shudder ran over him, and said, 'Go at once; I wish to be like unto God.”
― Jacob Grimm, quote from Grimm's Fairy Tales

“In the meantime, when he went on his way back, the seed had grown into a tree which reached up to the sky. Then thought the peasant, 'As thou hast the chance, thou must just see what the angels are doing up there above, and for once have them before thine eyes.' So he climbed up, and saw that the angels above were threshing oats, and he looked on.”
― Jacob Grimm, quote from Grimm's Fairy Tales

“You are mine, and I am yours, and no one in the world can alter that.”
― Jacob Grimm, quote from Grimm's Fairy Tales

“Come, take these two wicked girls, they are tender morsels for you, fat as young quails; for mercy's sake eat them!' The”
― Jacob Grimm, quote from Grimm's Fairy Tales

“Dear child, I am about to make a long journey, so take into thy keeping the keys of the thirteen doors of heaven. Twelve of these thou mayest open, and behold the glory which is within them, but the thirteenth, to which this little key belongs, is forbidden thee. Beware of opening it, or thou wilt bring misery on thyself.”
― Jacob Grimm, quote from Grimm's Fairy Tales

“The girls had run away, but the bear called to them: 'Snow-white and Rose-red, do not be afraid; wait, I will come with you.' Then they recognized his voice and waited, and when he came up to them suddenly his bearskin fell off, and”
― Jacob Grimm, quote from Grimm's Fairy Tales

“Then she was terribly angry, and took him up and threw him with all her might against the wall. "Now, thou wilt be quiet, odious frog," said she.”
― Jacob Grimm, quote from Grimm's Fairy Tales

“out of the forest. The dwarf sprang up in a fright, but he could not reach his cave, for the bear was already close. Then in the dread of his heart he cried: 'Dear Mr Bear, spare me, I will”
― Jacob Grimm, quote from Grimm's Fairy Tales

“stood still and stared at them. 'Why do you stand gaping there?' cried the dwarf, and his ashen-grey face became copper-red with rage. He was still cursing when a loud growling”
― Jacob Grimm, quote from Grimm's Fairy Tales

“THE OLD MAN AND HIS GRANDSON   There was once a very old man, whose eyes had become dim, his ears dull of hearing, his knees trembled, and when he sat at table he could hardly hold the spoon, and spilt the broth upon the table-cloth or let it run out of his mouth. His son and his son's wife were disgusted at this, so the old grandfather at last had to sit in the corner behind the stove, and they gave him his food in an earthenware bowl, and not even enough of it. And he used to look towards the table with his eyes full of tears. Once, too, his trembling hands could not hold the bowl, and it fell to the ground and broke. The young wife scolded him, but he said nothing and only sighed. Then they brought him a wooden bowl for a few half-pence, out of which he had to eat. They were once sitting thus when the little grandson of four years old began to gather together some bits of wood upon the ground. 'What are you doing there?' asked the father. 'I am making a little trough,' answered the child, 'for father and mother to eat out of when I am big.' The man and his wife looked at each other for a while, and presently began to cry. Then they took the old grandfather to the table, and henceforth always let him eat with them, and likewise said nothing if he did spill a little of anything.”
― Jacob Grimm, quote from Grimm's Fairy Tales

“Fox, you are the most cunning of all animals, you shall be general and lead us.”
― Jacob Grimm, quote from Grimm's Fairy Tales

“a tree which bore golden apples.”
― Jacob Grimm, quote from Grimm's Fairy Tales

“The good little sister cut off her own tiny finger, fitted it into the keyhole, and succeeded in opening the lock.”
― Jacob Grimm, quote from Grimm's Fairy Tales

“Nothing ever seems so good as what one keeps to oneself.”
― Jacob Grimm, quote from Grimm's Fairy Tales

“The King said, "The third question is, how many seconds of time are there in eternity." Then said the shepherd boy, "In Lower Pomerania is the Diamond Mountain, which is two miles and a half high, two miles and a half wide, and two miles and a half in depth; every hundred years a little bird comes and sharpens its beak on it, and when the whole mountain is worn away by this, then the first second of eternity will be over." The”
― Jacob Grimm, quote from Grimm's Fairy Tales

“the fat off. Then she took a walk upon the roofs of the town, looked out”
― Jacob Grimm, quote from Grimm's Fairy Tales

“one eye, for which she was continually reproached,”
― Jacob Grimm, quote from Grimm's Fairy Tales

“Be easy," answered the nix, "I will make thee richer and happier than thou hast ever been before, only thou must promise to give me the young thing which has just been born in thy house." "What else can that be," thought the miller, "but a young puppy or kitten?" and he promised her what she desired.”
― Jacob Grimm, quote from Grimm's Fairy Tales

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