Quotes from Hans Christian Andersen

Where are your sons? asked the prince. Well, it's not so easy to give an answer when you ask a stupid question! said the woman.

the heart that one can see clearly, for the most essential things are invisible

Her tender feet felt as if cut with sharp knives, but she cared not for it; a sharper pang had pierced through her heart.

And, above all, beware of the cat.

What ticks in the clock, beats here with strong strokes of the hammer. It is Bloodless, who drank life from human thought and thereby got limbs of metals, stone and wood; it is Bloodless, who by human thought gained strength, which man himself does not physically possess. Bloodless reigns in Motala, and through the large foundries and factories he extends his hard limbs, whose joints and parts consist of wheel within wheel, chains, bars, and thick iron wires.

No one would allow that he could not see these much-admired clothes; because, in doing so, he would have declared himself either a simpleton or unfit of his office.

Most of the people who will walk after me will be children, so make the beat keep time with short steps.

Every person's life is a fairytale written by God's fingers.

Because she could not go near all these wonderful things, she longed for them all the more.

Só se um ser humano a amasse tanto que você importasse mais para ele que pai e mãe. Se ele a amasse de todo o coração e deixasse o padre pôr a mão direita sobre a sua como uma promessa de ser fiel e verdadeiro por toda a eternidade. Nesse caso, a alma dele deslizaria para dentro do seu corpo e você, também, obteria uma parcela da felicidade humana. Ele lhe daria uma alma e, no entanto, conservaria a dele próprio.

Yes, it is wonderful to be alive! Indeed, the Bottle inwardly sang of all this, as do young poets, who frequently also know nothing about the things of which they sing. From The Bottle Neck

and she put a wreath of white lilies round her hair, but every petal of the flowers was half a pearl;

Now he is certainly sailing above, he on whom my wishes hang, and in whose hand I should like to lay my life's happiness. I will dare everything to win him and an immortal soul.

ele pediu-me para rezar, mas eu só me lembrava da tabuada

I think I will sit on it a little while longer, said the duck, as I have sat so long already, a few days will be nothing. Please yourself, said the old duck, and she went away.

cry so strange that it frightened him.

I will fly to those royal birds

It is only with the heart that one can see clearly, for the most essential things are invisible to the eye. – ANTONIE DE SAINTE EXUPERY

Early in the morning, a peasant, who was passing by, saw what had happened. He broke the ice in pieces with his wooden shoe, and carried the duckling home to his wife. The warmth revived the poor

There was once a king's son. Nobody had so many or such beautiful books as he had. He could read about everything which had ever happened in the world, and see it all represented in the most beautiful pictures.

Well, that's not easy to answer when the question is so stupidly put...

Grant not my prayers, when they are contrary to Thy will, which at all times must be the best. Oh, hear them not;

Oh, said the mother, that is not a turkey. How well he uses his legs, and how upright he holds himself! He is my own child, and he is not so very ugly after all if you look at him properly. Quack, quack! Come with me now. I will take you into grand society, and introduce you to the farmyard, but you must keep close to me or you may be trodden upon. And, above all, beware of the cat. When they reached the farmyard

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