Top 20 Quotes by Joseph Jacobs

About Joseph Jacobs

These are some quotes by Australian author Joseph Jacobs Historian, who lived between August 29, 1854 and January 30, 1916.

One might almost say that the history of geographical discovery, properly so called, begins with Captain Cook, the motive of whose voyages was purely scientific curiosity.

One might almost say that the history of geographical discovery, properly so called, begins with Captain Cook, the motive of whose voyages was purely scientific curiosity.

Joseph Jacobs

The first glimpse that we have of the notions which the Greeks possessed of the shape and the inhabitants of the earth is afforded by the poems passing under the name of Homer.

The first glimpse that we have of the notions which the Greeks possessed of the shape and the inhabitants of the earth is afforded by the poems passing under the name of Homer.

Joseph Jacobs

Up to 1870, it was equally said of France and of Italy that they possessed no folk-tales. Yet, within fifteen years from that date, over 1000 tales had been collected in each country.

Up to 1870, it was equally said of France and of Italy that they possessed no folk-tales. Yet, within fifteen years from that date, over 1000 tales had been collected in each country.

Joseph Jacobs

Generally speaking, it has been my ambition to write as a good old nurse will speak when she tells fairy tales.

Generally speaking, it has been my ambition to write as a good old nurse will speak when she tells fairy tales.

Joseph Jacobs

In 1893, Miss M. Roalfe Cox brought together, in a volume of the Folk-Lore Society, no less than 345 variants of 'Cinderella' and kindred stories showing how widespread this particular formula was throughout Europe and how substantially identical the various incidents as reproduced in each particular country.

Joseph Jacobs

Soils and national characters differ, but fairy tales are the same in plot and incidents, if not in treatment.

Soils and national characters differ, but fairy tales are the same in plot and incidents, if not in treatment.

Joseph Jacobs

The fate of the Celt in the British Empire bids fair to resemble that of the Greeks among the Romans.

The fate of the Celt in the British Empire bids fair to resemble that of the Greeks among the Romans.

Joseph Jacobs

Obscure as still remains the origin of that 'genre' of romance to which the tales before us belong, there is little doubt that their models, if not their originals, were once extant at Constantinople.

Obscure as still remains the origin of that 'genre' of romance to which the tales before us belong, there is little doubt that their models, if not their originals, were once extant at Constantinople.

Joseph Jacobs

Nowhere else is there so large and consistent a body of oral tradition about the national and mythical heroes as amongst the Gaels.

Nowhere else is there so large and consistent a body of oral tradition about the national and mythical heroes as amongst the Gaels.

Joseph Jacobs

I have come to the conclusion that a goodly number of the fables that pass under the name of the Samian slave, Aesop, were derived from India, probably from the same source whence the same tales were utilised in the Jatakas, or Birth-stories of Buddha.

Joseph Jacobs

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