Ludwig Tieck

“ It isn't dinner-time yet, is it? — No doubt it's just another prince who wants to fall in love with you. — Take care, my dear, you are my only child, and you do not realize how dear to my heart your happiness is. ”

“ I do not understand why none of the princes has yet touched my heart with love. I always keep my father's warnings in mind; he is a great ruler, but he is also a good father, and he is always thinking of my happiness; his subjects love him; he is gifted and wealthy; he is usually as gentle as a lamb, but sometimes he forgets himself and his duties and can suddenly fly into the wildest of rages. Yes, fortune and misfortune, it seems, are always coupled together. The arts and the sciences are my only sources of joy ”

“ Nothing infuriates me more than contradictions and anomalies! Why on earth can the prince not speak some foreign language and have an interpreter with him to translate it into German? And how come the princess doesn't make any grammatical errors when she speaks, since she herself admits that she cannot write five or six lines without blundering? ”