- Children: [chanting over and over] We want a story! We want a story! We want a story! We want a story!
- Jacob Grimm: [to Wilhelm] Just tell them I'm your brother.
- [last lines]
- Children: [chanting over and over] We want a story!
- Wilhelm Grimm: Once upon a time, there were two brothers...
- Jacob Grimm: It's an outrage. In my speech, I'm going to tell them...
- Wilhelm Grimm: [cutting him off] Jacob. Just tell them... just tell them I'm your brother.
- The King: I have discovered a new musical instrument which I thought might amuse you.
- Ludwig: As ruler of half your kingdom, I think it my duty to tell you that I simply loathe music.
- The King: [pointedly] As ruler of the other half, I suspect that you may change your mind. Shepherd, would you play us a tune?
- Voice of Flute: [the Shepherd plays and this song is heard] O King, pray listen to my tale./ I sleep beneath the tree./ My master Ludwig raised his sword/ And drove it into me./ I'll never walk the earth again/ Or hear a bird or plant a seed/ Till the man who slew me says he's sorry for the deed.
- The King: [angrily] Well, Sir Ludwig?
- [first lines]
- Narrator: [voice over over battle scenes] Early in the eighteen hundreds, the fearful sounds of war once again shook the heart of Europe.
- Narrator: [voice over over aerials scenes high above the pastoral countryside to a small town] Not far from the field of battle, there was another sound: soft... and gentle... yet it has echoed down the years to be heard long after the guns were stilled and the battles forgotten. If you listen closely, you can hear it... now.
- The Princess ('The Dancing Princess'): Is something wrong?
- The Woodsman ('The Dancing Princess'): Yes! Yes, I expected you to be beautiful.
- The Princess ('The Dancing Princess'): Am I not?
- The Woodsman ('The Dancing Princess'): Oh, no, Princess. You're divine!
- Stossel: Your gloominess is only a symptom. Now the diagnosis: too much work, no pleasure, too many hours alone.
- The Gypsy ('The Dancing Princess'): Take this cloak of invisibility. It will hide you from men's greed and protect you from their envy.
- The Woodsman ('The Dancing Princess'): Will it help me to win the Princess?
- The Gypsy ('The Dancing Princess'): That you will never know, until you try.
- The King ('The Dancing Princess'): He guessed your secret. Every night, dancing and prancing. I love to dance; but, nobody asks me.
- The King ('The Dancing Princess'): Tut, tut, tut, tut, my girl. You're not the King. You're only a Princess, which isn't as good!
- The Cobbler ('The Cobbler and the Elves'): Ladies and gentlemen, Your Worship, Your Ballerinaship, Your Marksmanship, I'm afraid you are not going to like what I have to tell you.
- The Ballerina ('The Cobbler and the Elves'): I shall dance like a Princess and the King will know its all because of you
- Wilhelm Grimm: That proves my point. These stories should be written down.
- Stossel: Better you should write about girls.
- Dorothea Grimm: It must seem very quiet for you after living in Berlin. Still, we hope, Jacob and all of us, that you won't have to hurry away.
- Greta Heinrich: Well, it was to be just a short visit, but I wouldn't mind staying - indefinitely.
- Dorothea Grimm: The way I heard it, you were a reformed man. Well, you aren't. You're absolutely beyond redemption. All I can say for you is - I love you.
- Priest: She's no witch. She only has the power to bewitch and beguile and create a world of beauty - that even Mozart would envy.
- Greta Heinrich: Are there any more questions?
- Jacob Grimm: Just one. May I kiss you?
- Greta Heinrich: Of course!
- Jacob Grimm: Very well.
- [looks around, pecks Greta on the cheek, Greta pulls Jacob back and kisses him on the mouth]
- Jacob Grimm: I thought...
- The Duke: I don't pay you to think, I pay you to write!
- Wilhelm Grimm: In point of fact, sir, you haven't paid us at all.
- Gruber: Please understand, I'm only obeying the Duke's orders.
- Jacob Grimm: We do understand. If there were no Duke, there would be no Gruber.
- Stossel: Exactly. If there no dogs, there would be no fleas.
- Jacob Grimm: Goodbyes are sentimental occasions for women. In fact, sentiment often blinds them to practical matters.
- Mrs. Von Dittersdorf: Off in the clouds again.
- Miss Bettenhausen: The poor moon struck mini.
- Mrs. Von Dittersdorf: The whole world on fire and he can't even smell the smoke.
- Wilhelm Grimm: Forgive me, ladies, but I *do* smell the smoke and the gunpowder. True, the whole world is at war. Blood is flowing everywhere.
- Jacob Grimm: Wilhelm!
- Wilhelm Grimm: Real blood, ladies. Not dragon's blood - which isn't harmful. Nor witches brew which can turn an old hag into a beautiful young princess. That is my world, dear ladies. If you prefer your's, I beg you keep it. With my fond blessings and a cordial: good day.
- The Woodsman ('The Dancing Princess'): My daughter's very sensitive. Promise you won't tell her?
- The King ('The Dancing Princess'): Cross my heart and hope to die.
- The King ('The Dancing Princess'): Oh, delicious! Oh, delightful! Good luck, Woodsman. But remember: don't lose your head.
- Anna Richter: Which of you would like to laugh today? I can see you'd rather I make your blood run cold.
- Greta Heinrich: You love me and I love you and there's nothing more to say is there? Well, there's nothing to be gained by tormenting each other.