Hans Christian Andersen
Danish Author
| Date of Birth | : | 02 Apr, 1805 |
| Date of Death | : | 04 Aug, 1875 |
| Place of Birth | : | Odense, Denmark |
| Profession | : | Poet, Journalist, Novelist |
| Nationality | : | Danish |
Hans Christian Andersen was a Danish author. Although a prolific writer of plays, travelogues, novels, and poems, he is best remembered for his literary fairy tales.
Andersen's fairy tales, consisting of 156 stories across nine volumes, have been translated into more than 125 languages. They have become embedded in Western collective consciousness, accessible to children as well as presenting lessons of virtue and resilience in the face of adversity for mature readers. His most famous fairy tales include "The Emperor's New Clothes", "The Little Mermaid", "The Nightingale", "The Steadfast Tin Soldier", "The Red Shoes", "The Princess and the Pea", "The Snow Queen", "The Ugly Duckling", "The Little Match Girl", and "Thumbelina". His stories have inspired ballets, plays, and animated and live-action films.
Quotes
Total 21 Quotes
Life is like a beautiful melody, only the lyrics are messed up.
We cannot expect to be happy always ... by experiencing evil as well as good we become wise.
Every man's life is a fairy tale written by God's fingers.
But shouldn't all of us on earth give the best we have to others and offer whatever is in our power?
The sun shines upon good and bad alike.
Human beings, on the contrary, have a soul which lives forever, lives after the body has been turned to dust. It rises up through the clear, pure air beyond the glittering stars.
Being born in a duck yard does not matter, if only you are hatched from a swan's egg.
"Does all the beauty of the world stop when you die?" "No," said the Old Oak; "it will last much longer - longer than I can even think of." "Well, then," said the little May-fly, "we have the same time to live; only we reckon differently.
Each time I think that the song is ended ... something higher and better begins for me.
Well, yes: people write poems when they are in love, but a wise man will not print them.
