Best quotes from Grimms' Fairy Tales

Before the castle gate all was as the fox had said: so the son went in and found the chamber where the golden bird hung in a wooden cage, and below

One feather is of no use to me, I must have the whole bird.

Lina said to Fundevogel: "Never leave me, and I will never leave you." Fundevogel said: "Neither now, nor ever." Then said Lina: "Do you become a rose-tree, and I the rose upon it."

Nibble, nibble, where's the mouse? Who's that nibbling at my house?

- Hansel and Gretel

Where's my child? Where's my fawn? One more time, and then I'm gone.

Little men have sharp wits; he shall part the goods between us.

- The Giants

No care and no sorrow, A fig for the morrow! We’ll laugh and be merry, Sing neigh down derry!

- Hans in Luck

If only I had a child as white as snow, as red as blood, and as black as the wood of the window frame.

- Snow White

There was once an old castle, that stood in the middle of a deep gloomy wood, and in the castle lived an old fairy.

My child, if I do not cut off both your hands, the devil will carry me away, and in my terror I have promised to do it. Help me in my need, and forgive me the harm I do you.

- The Girl Without Hands

When people are too well off they always begin to long for something new.

He who helped thee when thou wert in trouble ought not afterwards to be despised by thee.

The old woman had only pretended to be so kind; she was in reality, a wicked witch, who lay in wait for children, and had only built the little house of bread in order to entice them there.

Now you'll get your rest, you disgusting frog!

The king, however, had a lion which was a wondrous animal, for he knew all concealed and secret things.

Hansel took his little sister by the hand, and followed the pebbles which shone like newly-coined silver pieces, and showed them the way.

- Hansel and Gretel