Many, many steeples would have to be stacked one on top of another to reach from the bottom to the surface of the sea.

The Ugly Duckling.

Most of the people who will walk after me will be children, so make the beat keep time with short steps.

My life is a lovely story, happy and full of incident.

Just living is not enough… One must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower.

why didn’t they choose a Danish composer?

The Princess and the Pea.

Travelling expands the mind rarely

Thousands of lights were burning on the green branches, and gaily-colored pictures, such as she had seen in the shop-windows, looked down upon her. The little maiden stretched out her hands towards them when–the match...

You say you have thousands of my days; but I have thousands of moments, in which I can be merry and happy [the ephemera replying to the oak tree].

It’s a kind of home for Hans Christian Andersen here in Moscow.

“I cannot bear it!” said the pewter soldier. “I have shed pewter tears! It is too melancholy! Rather let me go to the wars and lose arms and legs! It would at least be a...

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

Every man’s life is a fairy tale written by God’s fingers

Life itself is the most wonderful fairy tale.

Where words fail, music speaks.

And the matches gave such a brilliant light that it was brighter than at noon-day: never formerly had the grandmother been so beautiful and so tall. She took the little maiden, on her arm, and...

`But the Emperor has nothing on at all!’ said a little child.

I cannot bear it!” said the pewter soldier. “I have shed pewter tears! It is too melancholy! Rather let me go to the wars and lose arms and legs! It would at least be a...