Brothers Grimm Quotes

#1. But there were no faerie godmothers. There were only mothers and grandmothers, and there was no magic wand to wave over a person's heart and make it all better. The fairy tales lied ... Fucking Brothers Grimm.

Laurell K. Hamilton

#2. I love the stories of changelings and the thought that the Fey were these ancient, capricious creatures who were tricky and dangerous. I've always preferred the Brothers Grimm faery tales to the Disney fairy tales.

Julie Kagawa

#3. The Brothers Grimm came along and I was so desperate for work ... Actually I've got to say that I like the movie, I won't apologize for it.

Terry Gilliam

#4. I love that very traditional fairy tale where it's not all 'happily ever after.' I like all that old school, bloody, 'Brothers Grimm' sort of stuff. So you have all those shades of gray in there.

Erin Morgenstern

#5. There's one thing the Brothers Grimm got very, very wrong: There's no such thing as "ever after." That would require that the story ever end.

Seanan McGuire

#6. I was brought up, as a lot of kids are, on 'Aesop's Fables,' 'Brothers Grimm,' 'La Fontaine,' all those sorts of things. Hans Christian Andersen is a hero of mine.

Michael Morpurgo

#7. Life to me is a bit of a (Brothers) Grimm fairy tale.

Alexander McQueen

#8. In olden times, when wishing still helped...."
- The Frog King | The Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm

Jack D. Zipes

#9. I was raised on the brothers Grimm, but my favorite fairy tales in the world are Oscar Wilde's - 'The Nightingale and the Rose,' 'The Selfish Giant.' The latter is probably my all-time favorite.

Denis O'Hare

#10. Long before haunted houses existed, haunted woods circled the globe. Homer knew it. The Brothers Grimm knew it. In legend, all the great mythic quests of self-discovery begin with the hero entering a dark wood. Some journeys also end there.

Robert Dunbar

#11. If you go back to, say, the Brothers Grimm or Roald Dahl, you see so much darkness in children's material.

Evangeline Lilly

#12. Girls, I need to tell you some things about our family," Sabrina said. "Have you ever heard of the Brothers Grimm?

Michael Buckley

#13. He turns the key.
Presto!
It opens this book of odd tales
which transform the Brothers Grimm.
Transform?
As if an enlarged paper clip
could be a piece of sculpture.
(And it could.)

Anne Sexton

#14. I often visit Maria Tatar's 'The Grimm Reader' for a cold dose of courage. Her translations come from the Brothers Grimm, whose now-famous collection of 'Kinder- und Hausmarchen' ('Children's and Household Tales') was first published in 1812. The book was not intended for young readers.

Kate Bernheimer

#15. I shall eat anyone who tries to steal my singing, springing lark!

Jacob Grimm

#16. Evil is also not anything small or close to home, and not the worst; otherwise one could grow accustomed to it.

Jacob Grimm

#17. Those Grimm brothers," she said with a sigh, "they'll never amount to anything." And she was right because all they ever became was writers.

Vivian Vande Velde

#18. Communes also with the Divine, and in thinking out its own deepest thoughts, thinks out the thoughts of the great Creator Himself, becomes one with Him, finds its final realisation through absorption into Him, and in His light sees light.

George Santayana

#19. This book is not a polemic treatise but a powerful, well-researched account that sensitizes any reader to the ways in which in-difference permits brutality and genocide.

John M Swomley

#20. I do have to wonder what sort of childhood the Grimm brothers endured. They are not a merry bunch of storytellers, what with their children roasted by witches, maidens poisoned by old crones, and whatnot.

Libba Bray

#21. The minute I was told what to do at any age, I did the opposite. Hopefully I'll do that for the rest of my life.

Jason Blum

#22. Life is a rush into the unknown. You can duck down & hope nothing hits you, Or stand as tall as you can, show it your teeth & say: "Dish it up, baby, and don't be stingy with the jalapenos." - must be female ;-)

Grey Owl

#23. Still, she stood looking fabulous like a princess should, licking her blood red lips the moment she laid her eyes on the beautiful prince. It was appetite on first sight.

Cameron Jace

#24. A body - physical, astral, dead - might be treated as an object, might be adored and hated. So this story has emerged from the material that the body is.

Malgorzata Szumowska

#25. When I was growing up, kids used to talk about snitching ... It never extended as a cultural norm outside of the gangsters.

Geoffrey Canada

#26. This was the magic of feasting & fucking, of savoring the blood of a kill & calling the Pack to dine.

Chloe Neill

#27. Standing on the front porch was the kind of person who would probably elicit a question like 'You ain't from around here are ya, son?' from most people around there.

Jonathon Kane

#28. We were all thrown together on this show very rapidly, there was casting then a few days later a meeting where we all got to read the scripts and meet each other. Literally days after that we were on our way to Dallas.

Steve Kanaly

#29. It had been fun to ride the fairy tale of Baz Acker actually giving a shit about him, but he knew firsthand fairy tales were a lot more Grimm brothers and much less Walt Disney.

Heidi Cullinan

#30. God has planned the world too perfectly for me to doubt that everyone is where they are supposed to be.

Thomm Quackenbush

#31. I don't know if fury can compete with necessity as the mother of invention, but I recommend it.

Gloria Steinem

#32. Princess, princess, youngest daughter,
Open up and let me in!
Or else your promise by the water
Isn't worth a rusty pin.
Keep your promise, royal daughter,
Open up and let me in!

Philip Pullman