Top 82 Jacob Grimm Quotes
#1. In general, I agree with Jacob Grimm and feel that we ought to permit changes and uncontrolled growth in language. Even though that also allows potentially threatening new words to develop, language needs the chance to constantly renew itself.
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#2. My relationship with Wilhelm and Jacob Grimm reaches far back into my childhood. I grew up with Grimm's fairy tales. I even saw a theater production of 'Tom Thumb' during Advent at the State Theater in Danzig, which my mother took me to see.
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#3. Open the door, my princess dear, Open the door to thy true love here! And mind the words that thou and I said By the fountain cool, in the greenwood shade.
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#4. 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.
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#5. 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 he stood there a handsome man, clothed all
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#6. 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.
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#7. don't trust somebody who can't trust you
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#8. The fat off. Then she took a walk upon the roofs of the town, looked out
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#10. You are mine, and I am yours, and no one in the world can alter that.
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#12. 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.
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#13. Skin white as snow, lips red as blood, and hair black as ebony.
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#14. the soles off your shoes!' Then he took out a sack of pearls which lay in the rushes, and without another word he dragged it away and disappeared behind a stone. It happened that soon afterwards the mother sent the two children to the town to buy needles and thread, and laces
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#15. My love for her is so great, that if all the leaves on all the trees were tongues, they could not declare it.
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#16. Come, take these two wicked girls, they are tender morsels for you, fat as young quails; for mercy's sake eat them!' The
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#17. He who says A must say B too; and he who consents the first time must also the second.
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#18. How They Went to the Mountains to Eat Nuts
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#19. He who helped thee when thou wert in trouble ought not afterwards to be despised by thee.
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#20. She'll sting you one day, Oh, ever so gently, so you hardly ever feel it. 'til you fall dead.
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#21. And then her envious heart was glad, and as happy as such a heart could be.
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#22. and when you are asked whence you come, you must say, from hell, and when you are asked who you are, you are to say, the devil's sooty brother, and my king as well." The
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#23. Do not shoot me, for I will give you good counsel; I know what your business is, and that you want to find the golden bird.
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#24. A good friend doesn't let you do stupid things ... alone.
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#25. I shall eat anyone who tries to steal my singing, springing lark!
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#27. You are mine, and I am thine, and no power on earth shall make it otherwise.
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#28. Evil is also not anything small or close to home, and not the worst; otherwise one could grow accustomed to it.
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#29. Then he sat down by the grave, and wept and mourned, till at last he died too; and so all were dead.
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#30. 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.
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#31. 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
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#32. The Lord God had created all animals, and had chosen out the wolf to be his dog.
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#33. Will you hold you tongue!' screamed the cat. 'Another word, and I devour you too!' And the poor little mouse, having "All-gone" on her tongue, out it came, and the cat leaped upon her and made an end of her. And that is the way of the world.
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#34. 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.
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#35. Sweep me the room as clean as you can, Up with the window, fling out my old man!
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#36. But we're never content with living well if we think we can live better.
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#37. But I feel very sorry for the poor children, all the same," said the man. The two children had also not been able to sleep for hunger, and had heard what their step-mother had said to their father. Grethel wept bitter tears, and said to Hansel, "Now all is over with us." "Be quiet, Grethel," said
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#38. They were indeed great rascals, and belonged to that class of people who find things before they are lost.
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#39. I know everything,' said the boy, 'and what I don't know, I can find out.
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#40. 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
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#41. 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.
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#42. This is why whoever is not afraid of the devil can tear out his hair and win the entire world.
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#43. 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
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#44. One eye, for which she was continually reproached,
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#45. When people are too well off they always begin to long for something new.
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#46. He who is too well off is always longing for something new.
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#47. I'm Death, and I make sure that everyone is equal.
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#48. You shall tie the marriage knot with the ropemaker's daughter and the cawing of the crows will be your wedding song.
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#49. The ring-dove sang from the willow spray, Well-a-day! Well-a-day! He mourn'd for the fate of his darling mate, Well-a-day!
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#50. "Turn and peep, turn and peep, There's blood within the shoe The shoe it is too small for her, The true bride waits for you.
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#51. Would not feel me between your teeth. Come, take these two wicked girls, they are tender morsels for you, fat as young quails; for mercy's sake eat them!' The bear took no heed of his words, but gave the wicked creature a single blow with his paw, and he did not move again. The girls had run away,
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#54. Wonder. At last one took the other aside, and said, 'That little urchin
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#55. At twelve o'clock at night the princess goes to the bathing-house: go up to her and give her a kiss, and she will let you lead her away; but take care you do not suffer her to go and take leave of her father and mother.
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#56. To-day I bake, to-morrow brew, The next I'll have the young Queen's child. Ha! glad am I that no one knew That Rumpelstiltskin I am styled.
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#57. Fox, you are the most cunning of all animals, you shall be general and lead us.
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#58. Sing, and princess left off weeping. Then he went
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#59. In the old times, when it was still of some use to wish for the thing one wanted, there lived a King whose daughters were all handsome, but the youngest was so beautiful that the sun himself, who had seen so much, wondered each time he shone over her because of her beauty.
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#60. Lie down there in the shade and sleep, and I will soon build the castle for you. If it would be a pleasure to you, you can live in it yourself.
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#61. 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.
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#62. 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
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#63. And tell him I want power over the sun
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#64. Grimm: The Thing with Feathers (#1.16) (2012)
Monroe: Molly, my girlfriend from high school, left me for a klaustreich, so I might be a wee bit riled up about them. He told her he loved her. He got her pregnant. She ended up delivering his litter at prom. Her parents were not thrilled.
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#66. Hither, thither, through the sky, turtle-doves and linnets, fly! Blackbird, thrush, and chaffinch gay, hither, thither, haste away! One and all, come, help me quick! haste ye, haste ye--pick, pick, pick!
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#67. Chemistry is a gibberish of Latin and German; but in Leibig's hands it becomes a powerful language.
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#68. Husband down the steps so that he broke his leg. Take the good-for-nothing
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#70. How often when we are comfortable, we begin to long for something new!
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#72. Hansel took his little sister by the hand, and followed the pebbles which shone like newly-coined silver pieces, and showed them the way.
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#73. Only preserve the love of God in thy heart, and all will go well with thee.
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#74. Hans went into the stable, cut out all the calves' and sheep's eyes, and threw them in Gretel's face. Then Gretel became angry, tore herself loose and ran away, and was no longer the bride of Hans.
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#75. From "Grimm: Bad Teeth (#2.1)" (2012)
Monroe: Yeah, no, totally. I mean, family reunions can be brutal. Our last one, we lost two cousins and a sheep dog.
Rosalee Calvert: Okay.
Monroe: No one missed the cousins, you know.
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#76. The tailor put on the girdle, and resolved to go forth into the world, because he thought his workshop was too small for his valor.
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#77. 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.
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#78. Once upon a time in the middle of winter, when the flakes of snow were falling like feathers from the sky, a queen sat at a window sewing, and the frame of the window
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#79. window, and every year bore the most beautiful roses, white and red.
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#81. Turn back, turn back,thou pretty bride,
Within this house thou must not abide.
For here do evil things betide.
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#82. They walked the whole night and all the next day too from morning till evening, but they did not get out of the forest, and were very hungry, for they had nothing to eat but two or three berries, which grew on the ground.
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