Charles Perrault Quotes

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• The gentleman had also a young daughter, of rare goodness and sweetness of temper, which she took from her mother, who was the best creature…
• The Prince, charmed with these words, and much more with the manner in which they were spoken, knew not how to show his joy and…
• He obliged Cinderella to sit down, and, putting the slipper to her little foot, he found it went on very easily, and fitted her as…
• For you know that I myself am a labyrinth, where one easily gets lost.
• To wait so long/And want a man refined and strong/Is not at all uncommon. And yet to wait one hundred years/Without a tear, without a…
• The less there is of eloquence, the more there is of love.
• Charm is the true gift of the Fairies.
• The next day the two sisters went to the ball, and so did Cinderella, but dressed more magnificently than before. The King's son was always…
• After a hundred years the son of the King then reigning, who was of another family from that of the sleeping Princess, was a-hunting on…
• The poor child was the drudge of the household, and was always in the wrong. He was, however, the most bright and discreet of all…
• Once upon a time there was a widow who had two daughters. The elder was so much like her, both in looks and character, that…
• Once upon a time there was a Queen who had a son so ugly and so misshapen that it was long disputed whether he had…
• The King's son, who was told that a great princess, whom nobody knew, was come, ran out to receive her. He gave her his hand…
• I wish with all my heart that you may be the most lovable prince in the world, and I bestow my gift on you as…
• Her godmother simply touched her with her wand, and, at the same moment, her clothes were turned into cloth of gold and silver, all decked…
• Monsieur Puss came at last to a stately castle, the master of which was an Ogre, the richest ever known; for all the lands which…

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