Joseph Jacobs Quotes

Fee, fi, fo, fum
I smell the blood of some earthly one.

Turn again Whittington,
Thrice Mayor of London

...he must need wish in a hurry; and wish he did, that the black pudding may come off his nose.

For out of every hole the rats came tumbling.

Well, he [the wolf] huffed, and he puffed, and he puffed, and he puffed and he puffed and huffed; but he could not get the house down.

My man is an ogre and there is nothing he likes better than boys broiled on toast.

Who says that English folk have no fairy-tales of their own?

You don't know what these beans are, said the man [that Jack meets]. If you plant them overnight, by morning they grew right up to the sky.

When the pig saw what he [the wolf] was about, he hung on a pot full of water, and made a blazing fire...and in fell the wolf...

Woe worth you, Molly Whuppie! never you come again
Twice yet, carle, quoth she, I'll come to Spain.

Out the Old Woman jumped (of the window). And whether she broke her neck in the fall; or ran into the wood and was lost there...or taken up by a constable to the House of Correction for the vagrant she was I cannot tell. But the Three Bears never saw anything more of her.

The sky is a-going to fall, I must go and tell the King.

But the Harp called out quite loud: Master! Master!

Kind sir, if the truth I must tell,
At the sign of Basin of Water I dwell.

There once was upon a time a poor widow who had an only son Jack, and a cow called Milky-White.