# Joseph Jacobs

- Quotes: 15
- Author page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/joseph-jacobs

## Books

- [English Fairy Tales](https://www.leafyquotes.com/joseph-jacobs/english-fairy-tales.md) — 15 quotes

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

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> Little pig, little pig, let me come in.
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> To which the pig answered: Not by the hair of my chinny chin chin.
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> The wolf answered to that, Then I'll huff and I'll puff and I'll blow the house down.

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> Turn again Whittington,
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> Thrice Mayor of London

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> 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...

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

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

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

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> 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.

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

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> Fee-fi-fo-fum,
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> I smell the blood of an Englishman,
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> Be he alive or be he dead
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> I'll have his bones to grind my bread.

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

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> 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.

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