Quotes About The Grimm Brothers

#1. 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

#2. 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

#3. 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

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

Jack D. Zipes

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

Alexander McQueen

#6. Young people today, for example, often watch live television (if they watch it live at all) with both the TV and their laptops or tablet devices on.

George Takei

#7. 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

#8. 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

#9. 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

#10. 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

#11. When you love to kill and can do it as well as I can, then what better way to raise hell?" -Javier "Bones" Jones

Justin Bienvenue

#12. AND THE PERSON OUTSIDE TO WHOM YOU WERE speaking?" Inspector Hewitt asked. "Dogger," I said.
"First name?" "Flavia," I said. I couldn't help myself.

Alan Bradley

#13. 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

#14. I've always really enjoyed sharing my work with others. I find it really hard if I don't think the work will exist outside of my own apartment.

Ottessa Moshfegh

#15. We should have a definitive total for insects in a little over fifteen thousand years.

Bill Bryson

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

Jacob Grimm

#18. Why cannot you be loud in saying 'I love you' ?", she asked.

Me:- It is just because I have got a great depth inside me that will take some time to reach the horizon. But believe me, it would be the loudest of all, anyone has ever heard.

Nishikant

#19. Stillness was a kind of violence in the hands of people who played at handing out pain.

Elly Blake

#20. As two proud and independent peoples, there is much that distinguishes us one from the other, but there is also much that we share: a vast continent, with its common hardships and uncommon duties; generations of mutual respect and support, and an abiding friendship that grows ever stronger.

Ronald Reagan

#21. In 1444 in Wallachia/The vampires all came forth to rock ya, ha.
Just no.

Cassandra Clare

#22. Ever since I was 2 or 3, I loved to perform for people. I would walk up to another table in a restaurant and crack a joke, sing a song, do a dance, or something entertaining, and the 'audience' would almost always smile and laugh.

Maxim Knight

#23. 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

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

Evangeline Lilly

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

Michael Buckley

#26. 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

#27. 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

#28. 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

#29. I do look at that thematic of healing of humanity.

Forest Whitaker

#30. William made an ejaculation in his own language that I didn't understand, nor did the abbot understand it, and perhaps it was best for us both, because the word William uttered had an obscene hissing sound.

Umberto Eco

#31. 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

#32. Better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all? How about this: I lost without the love. I've lost things I've never even had. A whole life.

Ben Marcus

#33. 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

#34. 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