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.

I would give gladly all the hundreds of years that I have to live, to be a human being only for one day, and to have the hope of knowing the happiness of that glorious world above the stars.

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

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

Then he rustled his feathers, curved his slender neck, and cried joyfully, from the depths of his heart, 'I never dreamed of such happiness as this, while I was an ugly duckling.

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

The naive was only a part of my fairy tales; humour was the real salt in them.