"At leve er ikke nok. Solskin, frihed og en lille blomst m man ha"

"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."

"Being born in a duck yard does not matter, if only you are hatched from a swan's egg."

"A mermaid has not an immortal soul, nor can she obtain one unless she wins the love of a human being. On the power of another hangs her eternal destiny."

"He now felt glad at having suffered sorrow and trouble, because it enabled him to enjoy so much better all the pleasure and happiness around him;"

"Now, if we only had as many casks of butter as there are people here, then I would eat lots of butter!"

"Every man’s life is a fairytale written by God’s hand."

"Some are created for beauty, and some for use; and there are some which one can do without altogether."

"Almighty God, thee only have I; thou steerest my fate, I must give myself up to thee! Give me a livelihood! Give me a bride! My blood wants love, as my heart does!"

"At first she was overjoyed that he would be with her, but then she recalled that human people could not live under the water, and he could only visit her father's palace as a dead man."

"Travelling expands the mind rarely."

"They could see she was a real Princess and no question about it, now that she had felt one pea all the way through twenty mattresses and twenty more feather beds. Nobody but a Princess could be so delicate."

"Never had she danced so beautifully; the sharp knives cut her feet, but she did not feel it, for the pain in her heart was far greater."

"I only appear to be dead."

"But shouldn't all of us on earth give the best we have to others and offer whatever is in our power?"

"You are a dreamer, and that is your misfortune."

"I know what you want. It is very stupid of you, but you shall have your way, and it will bring you to sorrow, my pretty princess. - The sea witch."

"Brave soldier, never fear. Even though your death is near."

"My life will be the best illustration of all my work."

"It doesn't matter if you're born in a duck yard, so long as you are hatched from a swan's egg!"

"Death walks faster than the wind and never returns what he has taken."

"To be of use to the world is the only way to be happy."

"If you looked down to the bottom of my soul, you would understand fully the source of my longing and – pity me. Even the open, transparent lake has its unknown depths, which no divers know."

"Everything you look at can become a fairy tale and you can get a story from everything you touch."