Jacob Grimm > Quotes

“I'm Death, and I make sure that everyone is equal.”
― Brothers Grimm

“How often when we are comfortable, we begin to long for something new! ”
― Jacob Grimm

“Skin white as snow, lips red as blood, and hair black as ebony.”
― The Brothers Grimm

“Love is like death, it must come to us all, but to each his own unique way and time, sometimes it will be avoided, but never can it be cheated, and never will it be forgotten.”
― Grim

“My mother, she killed me,
My father, he ate me,
My sister Marlene,
Gathered all my bones,
Tied them in a silken scarf,
Laid them beneath the juniper tree,
Tweet, tweet, what a beautiful bird am I.”
― Brothers Grimm, The Juniper Tree and Other Tales from Grimm

“She'll sting you one day,
Oh, ever so gently,
so you hardly ever feel it.
'til you fall dead.”
― The Grimm Brothers

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

“He who is too well off is always longing for something new.”
― Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm, The Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm

“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.”
― The Brothers Grimm, The Complete Brothers Grimm 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.”
― Brothers Grimm, Grimm's Fairy Tales

“Turn back, turn back,thou pretty bride,
Within this house thou must not abide.
For here do evil things betide.”
― Grimm, Jacob And Wilhelm, Cinderella and Other Tales by the Brothers Grimm Book and Charm

“Some men are born to good luck: all they do or try to do comes right—all that falls to them is so much gain—all their geese are swans—all their cards are trumps—toss them which way you will, they will always, like poor puss, alight upon their legs, and only move on so much the faster. The world may very likely not always think of them as they think of themselves, but what care they for the world? what can it know about the matter?”
― The Brothers Grimm, The Complete Brothers Grimm Fairy Tales

“A certain king had a beautiful garden, and in the garden stood a tree which bore golden apples. These apples were always counted, and about the time when they began to grow ripe it was found that every night one of them was gone. The king became very angry at this, and ordered the gardener to keep watch all night under the tree. The gardener set his eldest son to watch; but about twelve o'clock he fell asleep, and in the morning another of the apples was missing. Then the second son was ordered to watch; and at midnight he too fell asleep, and in the morning another apple was gone. Then the third son offered to keep watch; but the gardener at first would not let him, for fear some harm should come to him: however, at last he consented, and the young man laid himself under the tree to watch. As the clock struck twelve he heard a rustling noise in the air, and a bird came flying that was of pure gold; and as it was snapping at one of the apples with its beak, the gardener's son jumped up and shot an arrow at it. But the arrow did the bird no harm; only it dropped a golden feather from its tail, and then flew away. The golden feather was brought to the king in the morning, and all the council was called together. Everyone agreed that it was worth more than all the wealth of the kingdom: but the king said, 'One feather is of no use to me, I must have the whole bird.”
― Brothers Grimm, The Complete Brothers Grimm Fairy Tales

“My love for her is so great, that if all the leaves on all the trees were tongues, they could not declare it.”
― Brothers Grimm

“In olden times, when wishing still helped...”
― Brothers grimm

“The Lord God had created all animals, and had chosen out the wolf to be his dog.”
― Jacob Grimm, Household Stories by the Brothers Grimm

“don't trust somebody who can't trust you”
― the grimm brothers

“One feather is of no use to me, I must have the whole bird.”
― Jacob Grimm, The Complete Brothers Grimm Fairy Tales

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

“You are mine, and I am thine, and no power on earth shall make it otherwise.”
― Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm

“Evil is also not anything small or close to home, and not the worst; otherwise one could grow accustomed to it.”
― Brothers Grimm, The Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm - Illustrated by Arthur Rackham

“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.”
― Brothers Grimm, 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.”
― the grimm brothers, Grimm's 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”
― Jacob Ludwig Karl Grimm, The Complete Brothers Grimm Fairy Tales

“The true poet, is like a man who's happy anywhere, in endless measure, if he's allowed to look at leaves and grass, to see the sun rise and set.”
― Jacob Grimm

“Time passed on; and as the eldest son did not come back, and no tidings were heard of him, the second son set out, and the same thing happened to him. He met the fox, who gave him the good advice: but when he came to the two inns, his eldest brother was standing at the window where the merrymaking was, and called to him to come in; and he could not withstand the temptation, but went in, and forgot the golden bird and his country in the same manner.”
― Jacob Grimm, The Complete Brothers Grimm Fairy Tales

“A good friend doesn't let you do stupid things .... alone.”
― Grimm

“Jacob wrote that the true poet ‘is like a man who is happy anywhere, in endless measure, if he is allowed to look at leaves and grass, to see the sun rise and set. The false poet travels abroad in strange countries and hopes to be uplifted by the mountains of Switzerland, the sky and sea of Italy. He comes to them and is dissatisfied. He is not as happy as the man who stays at home and sees the apple trees flower in spring, and hears the small birds singing among the branches”
― Jacob Ludwig Karl Grimm, Grimm's Fairy Tales: Classic Fairy Tales

“Take me as godfather." The man asked, "Who art thou?" "I am Death, and I make all equal." Then said the man, "Thou art the right one, thou takest the rich as well as the poor, without distinction; thou shalt be godfather." Death answered, "I will make thy child rich and famous, for he who has me for a friend can lack nothing.”
― Jacob Ludwig Karl Grimm, Household Stories by the Brothers Grimm

“A merchant, who had three daughters, was once setting out upon a journey; but before he went he asked each daughter what gift he should bring back for her. The eldest wished for pearls; the second for jewels; but the third, who was called Lily, said, 'Dear father, bring me a rose.' Now it was no easy task to find a rose, for it was the middle of winter; yet as she was his prettiest daughter, and was very fond of flowers, her father said he would try what he could do. So he kissed all three, and bid them goodbye.”
― Jacob Grimm, The Complete Brothers Grimm Fairy Tales