154 Quotes by Hans Christian Andersen

But a mermaid has no tears, and therefore she suffers so much more.

But these are small troubles, people will say. Yes, but they are drops which wear hollows in the rock.

His own image; no longer a dark, gray bird, ugly and disagreeable to look at, but a graceful and beautiful swan. To be born in a duck's nest, in a farmyard, is of no consequence to a bird, if it is hatched from a swan's egg.

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

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.

You are a dreamer, and that is your misfortune.

Life itself is the most wonderful fairy tale.

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

[...] and the pea was put in the museum, where it can still be seen, if no one has stolen it.