Alfred > Alfred's Quotes

“If nature has made you for a giver, your hands are born open, and so is your heart; and though there may be times when your hands are empty, your heart is always full, and you can give things out of that—warm things, kind things, sweet things—help and comfort and laughter—and sometimes gay, kind laughter is the best help of all.”
― Frances Hodgson Burnett, A Little Princess

“Everything's a story - You are a story -I am a story.”
― Frances Hodgson Burnett, A Little Princess

“When you will not fly into a passion people know you are stronger than they are, because you are strong enough to hold in your rage, and they are not, and they say stupid things they wish they hadn't said afterward. There's nothing so strong as rage, except what makes you hold it in--that's stronger. It's a good thing not to answer your enemies.”
― Frances Hodgson Burnett, A Little Princess

“Never did she find anything so difficult as to keep herself from losing her temper when she was suddenly disturbed while absorbed in a book. People who are fond of books know the feeling of irritation which sweeps over them at such a moment. The temptation to be unreasonable and snappish is one not easy to manage.

"It makes me feel as if something had hit me," Sara had told Ermengarde once in confidence. "And as if I want to hit back. I have to remember things quickly to keep from saying something ill-tempered.”
― Frances Hodgson Burnett, A Little Princess

“Perhaps to be able to learn things quickly isn't everything. To be kind is worth a great deal to other people...Lots of clever people have done harm and have been wicked.”
― Frances Hodgson Burnett, A Little Princess

“Somehow, something always happens just before things get to the very worst. It is as if Magic did it. If I could only just remember that always. The worse thing never quite comes.”
― Frances Hodgson Burnett, A Little Princess

“Perhaps there is a language which is not made of words and everything in the world understands it.”
― Frances Hodgson Burnett, A Little Princess

“Are you learning me by heart, little Sara?" he said, stroking her hair.
"No," she answered. "I know you by heart. You are inside my heart.”
― Frances Hodgson Burnett, A Little Princess

“But I suppose there might be good in things, even if we don't see it.”
― Frances Hodgson Burnett, A Little Princess

“I don't know who it is," she said; "but somebody cares for me a little. I have a friend.”
― Frances Hodgson Burnett, A Little Princess

“Between the lines of every story there is another story, and that is one that is never heard and can only be guessed at by the people who are good at guessing.”
― Frances Hodgson Burnett, A Little Princess

“I know you by heart. You are inside my heart.”
― Frances Hodgson Burnett, A Little Princess

“Neither do I -- to speak truth. But I suppose there might be good in things, even if we don't see it.”
― Frances Hodgson Burnett, A Little Princess

“It's a lonely place. Sometimes it's the loneliest place in the world.”
― Frances Hodgson Burnett, A Little Princess

“I'm so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers.”
― L. M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

“True friends are always together in spirit.”
― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

“My life is a perfect graveyard of buried hopes.”
― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

“Life is worth living as long as there's a laugh in it.”
― Lucy Maud Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

“Dear old world', she murmured, 'you are very lovely, and I am glad to be alive in you.”
― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

“Tomorrow is a new day with no mistakes in it... yet.”
― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

“Next to trying and winning, the best thing is trying and failing.”
― Lucy Maud Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

“We pay a price for everything we get or take in this world; and although ambitions are well worth having, they are not to be cheaply won, but exact their dues of work and self denial, anxiety and discouragement.”
― Lucy Maud Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

“All things great are wound up with all things little.”
― Lucy Maud Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

“The world looks like something God had just imaged for his own pleasure, doesn't it?”
― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

“...Isn't it splendid to think of all the things there are to find out about? It just makes me feel glad to be alive--it's such an interesting world. It wouldn't be half so interesting if we knew all about everything, would it? There'd be no scope for imagination then, would there?”
― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

“If you can't be cheerful, be as cheerful as you can.”
― Lucy Maud Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

“I love a book that makes me cry.”
― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

“I can't cheer up — I don't want to cheer up. It's nicer to be miserable!”
― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

“She makes me love her and I like people who make me love them. It saves me so much trouble making myself love them”
― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

“I don't know what lies around the bend, but I'm going to believe that the best does.”
― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables