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Grimm Quotes

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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, Grimm

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

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

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