`` From this story one learns that children , especially young lasses , pretty , courteous and well-bred , do very wrong to listen to strangers ... all wolves are not of the same sort ... there is one kind ( that is not ) noisy , nor hateful , nor angry , but tame , obliging and gentle , following the young maids in the streets , even into their homes . From this story one learns that children , especially young lasses , pretty , courteous and well-bred , do very wrong to listen to strangers , And it is not an unheard thing if the Wolf is thereby provided with his dinner . I say Wolf , for all wolves are not of the same sort ; there is one kind with an amenable disposition -- neither noisy , nor hateful , nor angry , but tame , obliging and gentle , following the young maids in the streets , even into their homes .