154 Quotes by Hans Christian Andersen

There was once a bundle of matches, and they were frightfully proud because of their high origin. Their family tree, that is to say the great pine tree of which they were each a little splinter, had been the giant of the forest.

How little do the wisest among us know of that which is so important to us all.

I covet honour in the same way as a miser covets gold.

Well, it's not so easy to give an answer when you ask a stupid question!

Each time I think that the song is ended ... something higher and better begins for me.

No, the light is too intense; we do not yet have eyes that can see all the glory God has created. But maybe someday we will have such eyes. That will be the most wonderful fairy tale of all, for we ourselves will be part of it.

Time is so fleeting that if we do not remember God in our youth, age may find us incapable of thinking of him.

There was once a merchant who was so rich that he might have paved the whole street, and a little alley besides, with silver money. But he didn't do it--he knew better how to use his money than that.

One cannot quite trust the word of potted flowers," thought the butterfly; "they have too much to do with men.