Grimms' Fairy Tales Loyalty Quotes

Then Lena said to Foundling, "If you won't forsake me, I won't forsake you." "Never ever," said Foundling. (Foundling.175)

Whenever he rejoined the shoemaker, he always had more in his knapsack than his companion, and the sullen shoemaker would look peevish and remark, "The bigger the fool, the greater his luck." But the tailor would only burst out laughing and begin singing. Whatever he earned, he would share with his companion. (The Two Travelers.354)

"If you ever should separate, stick this knife into a tree at the crossroad. Then if one of you comes back, he can see how his absent brother is doing, for the side of the blade facing the direction he took will rust if he's dying but stay bright as long as he's alive." (The Two Brothers.214)

Since Unfaithful Ferdinand kept a grudge against Faithful Ferdinand, and since he also kept hearing the king lament, he finally said, "You have the outrider, don't you? Well, why don't you send him to find her, and if he doesn't bring her back, have him beheaded." (Faithful Ferdinand and Unfaithful Ferdinand.412)

Now Hans put the maiden into the basket and ordered his companions to pull her up. The basket came down again, but Hans did not trust his two companions and thought, They have already shown themselves to be untrustworthy by not telling you about the dwarf. Who knows what they have up their sleeve now? So he put his staff into the basket, and it was lucky he did this, for they let the basket drop when it was halfway up, and if Hans had really been sitting in it, he would have died. (Strong Hans.497-498)

The sparrow realized that the wagon was heading straight down the lane in which the dog was lying and that it was not going to swerve. "Wagoner, don't do that, or I'll make you a poor man!" the sparrow cried out. "You won't make me poor!" the wagoner bellowed as he whipped the horses and drove the wagon over the dog, killing him with the wheels. (The Dog and the Sparrow.205)

However, because it was so difficult to find them and everything went so slowly, he sat down on a stone and began to weep. While he was sitting on the stone and weeping, the king of the ants whose life he had once saved came along with five thousand ants, and it did not take long before the little creatures had gathered the pearls together and stacked them in a pile." (The Queen Bee.233)

The king was horrified when he heard that he himself would have to kill his precious children. He recalled, nevertheless, the great fidelity of Faithful Johannes and how he had died for him. (Faithful Johannes)

One day Reginer said to her, "Dear sister, I want to paint your picture so that I may always see you before my eyes. My love for you is so great that I want to see you constantly." (The White Bride and the Black Bride.440)

"Oh," she said, "please be careful; don't kiss your parents on the right cheek when you arrive. Otherwise, you'll forget everything, and I'll remain alone and abandoned here in the field." "How can I forget you?" he said, and he gave her his oath that he would return very soon. (The Drummer.563)