Hans Christian Andersen

Hans:
Did you ever hear the story of the old woman who shook her head at the family so much that one night it fell off? Right on the dinner table.

Niels:
You dance the waltz like an elephant in a snowdrift! No, like an elephant that's fallen and trying to get up!

Hans:
You know I like to think that shoes have a mind of their own. The ones that squeak don't want to leave the shop, and the ones that don't fit don't like the person that's wearing them.

Hans:
You know, I never saw such a worrier as you, Peter. You want to worry? I'll give you something to worry about. Two years ago I took you out of that orphanage and promised them I'd make you into a good carpenter. Two whole years! Look at that shoe. Glues all smeared the nails go in crooked. Two years an apprentice and still the nails go in crooked.

Peter:
I'm not as bad as all that, am I? You're not going to send me back are you?

Hans:
Ah! A new worry appears in the sky.

Peter:
Hans has gone to Copenhagen!

Hans:
That's the nice thing about the world, my friend: People.

Hans:
No one's ever really alone.

Hans:
You'd be surprised how many kings are only a queen with a mustache.

Hans:
I almost wish she'd asked me for something really impossible.