In 1893, Miss M. Roalfe Cox brought together, in a volume of the Folk-Lore Society, no less than 345 variants of 'Cinderella'… — Joseph Jacobs Country Copy Share Image
“Then she took the heart and liver of the little girl, and she stewed them and brought them into the house for… — Joseph Jacobs Every day Copy Share Image
The Celtic folk-tales have been collected while the practice of story-telling is still in full vigour, though there is every sign that… — Joseph Jacobs Full Copy Share Image
The great problems of the Twentieth century will have immediate relation to the discoveries of America, of Africa, and of Australia. — Joseph Jacobs America Copy Share Image
The successful men of action are not sufficiently self-observant to know exactly on what their success depends. — Joseph Jacobs Action Copy Share Image
Soils and national characters differ, but fairy tales are the same in plot and incidents, if not in treatment. — Joseph Jacobs Fairy Copy Share Image
Obscure as still remains the origin of that 'genre' of romance to which the tales before us belong, there is little doubt… — Joseph Jacobs Belong Copy Share Image
Certainly there is abundant evidence of the early transmission by literary means of a considerable number of drolls and folk-tales from India… — Joseph Jacobs Early Copy Share Image
Nowhere else is there so large and consistent a body of oral tradition about the national and mythical heroes as amongst the… — Joseph Jacobs About Copy Share Image
Every place but that in which one is born is equally strange and wondrous. Once beyond the bounds of the city walls,… — Joseph Jacobs Born Copy Share Image
One might almost say that the history of geographical discovery, properly so called, begins with Captain Cook, the motive of whose voyages… — Joseph Jacobs Captain Copy Share Image
Children, and sometimes those of larger growth, will not read dialect. — Joseph Jacobs Children Copy Share Image
The first two crusades brought the flower of European chivalry to Constantinople and restored that spiritual union between Eastern and Western Christendom… — Joseph Jacobs Chivalry Copy Share Image
Forgiveness is the highest and most difficult of all moral lessons. — Joseph Jacobs Character Copy Share Image
The words 'fairy tales' must accordingly be taken to include tales in which occurs something 'fairy,' something extraordinary - fairies, giants, dwarfs,… — Joseph Jacobs Animals Copy Share Image
The fate of the Celt in the British Empire bids fair to resemble that of the Greeks among the Romans. — Joseph Jacobs British Copy Share Image
“Little pig, little pig, let me come in." To which the pig answered: "No, no, by the hair of my chiny chin… — Joseph Jacobs Copy Share Image
The first glimpse that we have of the notions which the Greeks possessed of the shape and the inhabitants of the earth… — Joseph Jacobs Earth Copy Share Image
Permanent bonds of culture began to be formed between the extreme East and the extreme West of Europe by intermarriage, by commerce,… — Joseph Jacobs Chivalry Copy Share Image
In the Land of Ire, the belief in fairies, gnomes, ogres and monsters is all but dead; in the Land of Ind,… — Joseph Jacobs Belief Copy Share Image
Generally speaking, it has been my ambition to write as a good old nurse will speak when she tells fairy tales. — Joseph Jacobs Ambition Copy Share Image
“So Molly took the ring to the king, and she was married to his youngest son, and she never saw the giant… — Joseph Jacobs Youngest son Copy Share Image
I have come to the conclusion that a goodly number of the fables that pass under the name of the Samian slave,… — Joseph Jacobs Come Copy Share Image
Up to 1870, it was equally said of France and of Italy that they possessed no folk-tales. Yet, within fifteen years from… — Joseph Jacobs Country Copy Share Image
The truth is, my folk-lore friends and my Saturday Reviewer differ with me on the important problem of the origin of folk-tales.… — Joseph Jacobs Friends Copy Share Image
