Quotes · Quote card
Quotation from Fairy Tales (Selection) by Hans Christian Andersen
“No clothes of the emperor's had ever had such a success as these.”
Fairy Tales (Selection), The Emperor's New Clothes, trans. W. A. Craigie
The crowd praises the invisible garments in the procession, a moment before a little child cries out that the emperor has nothing on.
Citation: "No clothes of the emperor's had ever had such a success as these." — Hans Christian Andersen, Fairy Tales (Selection), The Emperor's New Clothes, trans. W. A. Craigie. (id andersen-fairy-tales-q3)
Portrait: Hans Christian Andersen by Thora Hallager 1869, Thora Hallager, Public domain.
