Grimm Quotes

• 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.

  Gunter Grass

  Growth, Needs, Chance

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

  Jacob Grimm

  Home, Evil, Worst

  Jacob Grimm, Wilhelm Grimm (2014). “The Original Folk and Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm: The Complete First Edition”, p.6, Princeton University Press

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• I loved fairy tales when I was a kid. Grimm. The grimmer the better. I loved gruesome gothic tales and, in that respect, I liked Bible stories, because to me they were very gothic.

  Amy Tan

  Kids, Stories, Gothic

  "Author of The Joy Luck Club". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 28, 1996.

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• In kindergarten that used to be my job, to tell them fairytales. I liked Hans Christian Andersen, and the Grimm fairy tales, all the classic fairy tales.

  Francis Ford Coppola

  Christian, Jobs, Fairytale

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• 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

  Men, Looks, Sun

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• 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.

  Jacob Grimm

  Unique, Love Is, Way

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• The Lord God had created all animals, and had chosen out the wolf to be his dog.

  Jacob Grimm

  Dog, Animal, Lord

  Jacob Grimm, Wilhelm Grimm (2014). “Grimm's Fairy Tales: Complete and illustrated - 211 Tales”, p.513, Ageless Reads

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• He who is too well off is always longing for something new.

  Jacob Grimm

  Longing, Something New, Wells

  Jacob Grimm, Wilhelm Grimm (2014). “Grimm's Fairy Tales: Complete and illustrated - 211 Tales”, p.106, Ageless Reads

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• 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?

  Jacob Grimm

  Moving, Fall, Good Luck

  Jacob Grimm, Wilhelm Grimm “Annotated Grimms' Fairy Tales with English Grammar Exercises: by Jacob Grimm and Wilhelm Grimm (Author), Robert Powell (Editor)”, Powell Publications, LLC

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• you shall tie the marriage knot with the ropemaker's daughter and the cawing of the crows will be your wedding song.

  Jacob Grimm

  Daughter, Song, Ties

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• They were indeed great rascals, and belonged to that class of people who find things before they are lost.

  Jacob Grimm

  Class, People, Lost

  Jacob Grimm, Wilhelm Grimm, Hans Christian Andersen (1952). “Tales of Grimm and Andersen”

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• 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.

  Jacob Grimm

  Beautiful, Mother, Father

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• How often when we are comfortable, we begin to long for something new!

  Jacob Grimm

  Long, Something New, Comfortable

  Jacob Grimm, Wilhelm Grimm (188?). “Grimm's Fairy tales: A new translation”

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• Skin white as snow, lips red as blood, and hair black as ebony.

  Jacob Grimm

  Hair, Blood, White

  Jacob Grimm, Wilhelm Grimm, Thea Kliros (1994). “Snow White and Other Fairy Tales”, p.1, Courier Corporation

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• Turn back, turn back,thou pretty bride, Within this house thou must not abide. For here do evil things betide.

  Jacob Grimm

  Evil, House, Brides

  Jacob Grimm, Maria Tatar, Wilhelm Grimm, Tracy Dockray (1997). “Grimm's grimmest”, Chronicle Books Llc

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• ...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

  Brother, Children, Childhood

  Libba Bray (2009). “Rebel Angels”, p.51, Simon and Schuster

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• Folklore, legends, myths and fairy tales have followed childhood through the ages, for every healthy youngster has a wholesome and instinctive love for stories fantastic, marvelous and manifestly unreal. The winged fairies of Grimm and Andersen have brought more happiness to childish hearts than all other human creations.

  L. Frank Baum

  Love, Heart, Childhood

  L. Frank Baum (2015). “The Wonderful Wizard of Oz”, p.4, Xist Publishing

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• 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

  Brother, Said, Sigh

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• Sometimes you have to censor books. When I read 'Peter Rabbit,' I skip the part about Peter's father ending up in one of Mrs. McGregor's pies. I also hid the book of 'Grimm Fairy Tales.' They're just too grim for my grandkids. Reality will come soon enough.

  Regina Brett

  Father, Book, Reality

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• Ever heard of anyone executed for distributing copies of Grimm's fairy tales? Imagine people trying to smuggle copies of Hans Christian Andersen's works into China? The Bible, which has been called a mere collection of myths has suffered all of these fates: even today, copies of the Bible are banned and burned. There's something about this ancient book that threatens and frightens those in power.

  Eric Metaxas

  Christian, Book, Fate

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• Imagine an American Hans Christian Andersen, conceive of the Brothers Grimm living in Missouri, and you will approximate Howard Schwartz, a fable-maker and fable-gatherer seduced by the uncanny and the unearthly. In Lilith's Cave, he once again reaches into a magical cornucopia of folklore and fantasy and spreads before us, in enchanting language, the marvels and shocks of dybbuks, ghosts, demons, spirits, and wizards.

  Cynthia Ozick

  Christian, Brother, Caves

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• Unfortunately, as obsessed as I am with all of those Grimm's slash Disney princesses, I do think women have evolved socially in so many ways.

  Ginnifer Goodwin

  Princess, Thinking, Way

  "'Once Upon a Time's' Ginnifer Goodwin and Jennifer Morrison Explain Its Version of 'Ever After'" by Jethro Nededog, www.hollywoodreporter.com. October 21, 2011.

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• My writing has to excite people and depict or include their experiences. That's part of my process - to go out and interact with people. It's very much like an archival process. I understand that the Brothers Grimm would go out and get people talking so they could document folk tales that weren't being documented any other way. I try to offer a little bit of myself - some experience from my life that evokes stories in other people.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Brother, Writing, Talking

  Source: www.writersdigest.com

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• I wanted to avoid what some modern tellers have done, quite legitimately, to make fairy tales more like novels and short stories, to characterize the heroes and the heroines much more than they are characterized in Grimm. I like the psychological flatness of them, the fact that they're more like masks than individuals.

  Philip Pullman

  Hero, Stories, Done

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• I'm with the Grimms on this: stories for young and old. You can't characterize them any better than that.

  Philip Pullman

  Stories, Young, Old You

  "His Grimm Materials: A Conversation With Philip Pullman". Interview with Michael Mechanic, www.motherjones.com. November/December 2012.

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