Quotes – Season 1

Pilot

From Little Red Riding Hood

“The wolf thought to himself, what a tender young creature. What a nice plump mouthful…”

—The Brothers Grimm, 1812

Bears Will Be Bears

Literature quote from: Goldilocks and the Three Bears

 “She looked in the window, and then peeped through the keyhole; seeing nobody in the house, she lifted the latch.”

Beeware

Literature quote from: The Queen Bee

 “She’ll sting you one day. Oh so gently, so you hardly even feel it. ‘Til you fall dead.”

Lonelyhearts

Literature quote from: Bluebeard

 “There she paused for a while thinking… but the temptation was so great that she could not conquer it.”

Danse Macabre

Literature quote from: The Pied Piper of Hamelin

 “Out they scampered from doors, windows and gutters, rats of every size, all after the piper.”

The Three Bad Wolves

Literature quote from: The Three Little Pigs

“‘Little pig, little pig, let me come in,’ said the wolf to the pig. ‘Not by the hair of my chinny chin chin,’ said the pig to the wolf.”

Let Your Hair Down

Literature quote from: Rapunzel

“The enchantress was so hard-hearted that she banished the poor girl to a wilderness where she had to live in a miserable, wretched state.”

Game Ogre

Literature quote from: Jack and the Beanstalk

“Fee fi fo fum… I smell the blood of an Englishman.”

Of Mouse and Man

Literature quote from: Of Mice and Men

“I am impelled not to squeak like a grateful and frightened mouse, but to roar….”

Organ Grinder

Literature quote from: Hänsel and Gretel

“We shall see the crumbs of bread… and they will show us our way home again.”

Tarantella

Literature quote from: The Goblin Spider

“Instantly, the priestess changed into a monstrous goblin-spider and the warrior found himself caught fast in her web.”

Last Grimm Standing

Literature quote from: Androcles and the Lion

“The beasts were loosed into the arena, and among them, a beast of huge bulk and ferocious aspect. Then the slave was cast in.”

Three Coins in a Fuchsbau

Literature quote from: The Master Thief

“For me there are neither locks nor bolts, whatsoever I desire is mine.”

Plumed Serpent

Literature quote from: The Two Brothers

“Said the dragon, ‘Many knights have left their lives here, I shall soon have an end for you, too,’ and he breathed fire out of seven jaws.”

Island of Dreams

Literature quote from: Donkey Cabbages

“Soon he was so in love with the witch’s daughter that he could think of nothing else. He lived by the light of her eyes and gladly did whatever she asked.”

The Thing with Feathers

Literature quote from: The Nightingale

 “Sing my precious little golden bird, sing! I have hung my golden slipper around your neck.”

Love Sick

Literature quote from: Donkey Cabbages

“Forgive me for the evil I have done you; my mother drove me to it; it was done against my will.”

Cat and Mouse

Literature quote from: Iron John (Iron Hans)

“‘Perhaps some accident has befallen him,’ said the king, and the next day he sent out two more huntsmen who were to search for him.'”

Leave It to Beavers

Literature quote from: Three Billy Goats Gruff

“‘Wait!’ the troll said, jumping in front of him. ‘This is my toll bridge. You have to pay a penny to cross.'”

Happily Ever Aftermath

Literature quote from: Cinderella

“And they lived happily ever after.”

Big Feet

Literature quote from: Hans the Hedgehog

 “He stripped off his skin and tossed it into the fire and he was in human form again.”

Woman in Black

Literature quote from: Sleeping Beauty (Briar Rose)

“It shall not be death, but a sleep of a hundred years, into which the princess shall fall.”