25 Quotes by Charles Perrault

You are a curse in my life!

Il Principe diede mano alla Principessa perché si alzasse: ella era già abbigliata e con gran magnificenza: ed egli fu abbastanza prudente da farle osservare, che era vestita come la mi’ nonna, e che aveva un camicino alto fin sotto gli orecchi, come costumava un secolo addietro.

Her godmother, who was a fairy, said, "You would like to go to the ball, is that not so?

For you know that I myself am a labyrinth, where one easily gets lost.

La bella Antigüedad fue siempre venerable;pero no creo en absoluto que ella sea admirable.Veo a los antiguos, sin doblar las rodillas;son grandes, es cierto, pero hombres como nosotros.

He obliged Cinderella to sit down, and, putting the slipper to her little foot, he found it went on very easily, and fitted her as if it had been made of wax.

Her godmother simply touched her with her wand, and, at the same moment, her clothes were turned into cloth of gold and silver, all decked with jewels.

After a hundred years the son of the King then reigning, who was of another family from that of the sleeping Princess, was a-hunting on that side of the country, and he asked what those towers were which he saw in the middle of a great thick wood.

Once upon a time there was a widow who had two daughters. The elder was so much like her, both in looks and character, that whoever saw the daughter saw the mother.