Quotes from Hans Christian Andersen

Eines Nachts, als sie in ihrem hübschen Bettchen lag, kam durch das Fenster, in dem eine Scheibe zerbrochen war, eine häßliche Kröte hereingehüpft; sie hüpfte gerade auf den Tisch hernieder, wo Däumelieschen lag und unter dem roten Rosenblatte schlief.

Towards evening, he reached a poor little cottage that seemed ready to fall, and only remained standing because it could not decide on which side to fall first.

word is a shadow," said the shadow, "and as such it must speak.

personal expenses and deposited

It happened that very day that he had a large party to dinner; our celebrated composer Weyse was there, the poet Baggesen, and other guests.

looking old witch in the road. Her under-lip hung quite down on her breast, and she stopped and said, "Good

I saw one of his comrades led to execution; he had killed a Frenchman. Many years afterwards this little circumstance occasioned me to write my little poem, The Soldier, which Chamisso translated into German, and which afterwards was included in the illustrated people's books of soldier-songs.

Suddenly an ice-cold wind went through the vast hall, and the blind mother could feel that Death had arrived. 'How have you been able to find your way here?' he asked, 'how have you been able to get here faster than I have?' 'I'm a mother, she said.

Los cuentos son para dormir a los niños y despertar a los adultos.

Yes, it always pays when the wife believes and admits that her husband is the wisest man in the world and that whatever he does is right.

as the centre of a thick wood. In this snug retreat sat a duck on her nest, watching for her young brood to hatch;

Si puedes dibujar y pintar- pensó el niño-, entonces tienes el mundo en tus manos

Life itself is the most wonderful fairytale

Little Gerda was very frightened, and began to cry; but no one heard her except the sparrows, and they could not carry her to land; but they flew along the bank, and sang as if to comfort her, Here we are! Here we are! The boat drifted with the stream, little Gerda sat quite still without shoes, for they were swimming behind the boat, but she could not reach them, because the boat went much faster than they did.

His wedding morning would bring death to her, and she would change into the foam of the sea.

Oh, how I wish I were tall enough to go on the sea," said the fir tree. "What is the sea, and what does it look like?" "It would take too much time to explain," said the stork, flying quickly away. "Rejoice in thy youth," said the sunbeam, "rejoice in thy fresh growth, and the young life that is in thee.

in the meadows looked beautiful. The

swim. 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.

She laughed and danced with the thought of death in her heart

You may have thousands of my days, but I have thousands of moments in which I can be merry and happy. Does all the beauty of the world cease when you die?

In this kingdom where we now are," said he, "there lives a princess, who is so wonderfully clever that she has read all the newspapers in the world, and forgotten them too, although she is so clever.

In the dawn of morning there lay the poor little one, with pale cheeks and smiling mouth, leaning against the wall; she had been frozen to death on the last evening of the year . . . No one imagined what beautiful things she had seen, nor into what glory she had entered with her grandmother, on New-year's day.

S]he made haste to light the whole bundle of matches, for she wished to keep her grandmother there. And the matches glowed with a light that was brighter than the noon-day, and her grandmother had never appeared so large or so beautiful. She took the little girl in her arms, and they both flew upwards in brightness and joy far above the earth, where there was neither cold nor hunger nor pain, for they were with God.

La vida de cada hombre es un cuento de hadas escrito por la mano de Dios.