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Frances Hodgson Burnett Quotes | Quotes said by Frances Hodgson Burnett

  • Frances Hodgson Burnett Quote #1

    ...if He made us, He must know He is to blame when He has made us weak or evil. And He must understand why we have been so made, and when we throw ourselves into the dust before Him, and pray for help and pardon, surely--surely He will lend an ear!


  • Frances Hodgson Burnett Quote #2

    …Mrs. Warren allowed her book to fall closed upon her lap, and her attractive face awakened to an expression of agreeable expectation, in itself denoting the existence of interesting and desirable qualities in the husband at the moment inserting his latch-key in the front door preparatory to mounting the stairs and joining her. The man who, after twenty-five years of marriage, can call, by his return to her side, this expression to the countenance of an intelligent woman is, without question or argument, an individual whose life and occupations are as interesting as his character and points of view.

  • Frances Hodgson Burnett Quote #3

    At that moment a very good thing was happening to her. Four good things had happened to her, in fact, since she came to Misselthwaite Manor. She had felt as if she had understood a robin and that he had understood her; she had run in the wind until her blood had grown warm; she had been healthily hungry for the first time in her life; and she had found out what it was to be sorry for someone.

  • Frances Hodgson Burnett Quote #4

    Dr. Warren was of the mental build of the man whose life would be interesting and full of outlook if it were spent on a desert island or in the Bastille.

  • Frances Hodgson Burnett Quote #5

    Hang in there. It is astonishing how short a time it can take for very wonderful things to happen.

  • Frances Hodgson Burnett Quote #6

    He had made himself believe that he was going to get well, which was really more than half the battle.

  • Frances Hodgson Burnett Quote #7

    He sat down in his chair by the fire and began to chat, as was his habit before he and his wife parted to dress for dinner. When he was out during the day he often looked forward to these chats, and made notes of things he would like to tell his Mary. During her day, which was given to feminine duties and pleasures, she frequently did the same thing. Between seven and eight in the evening they had delightful conversational opportunities. He picked up her book and glanced it over, he asked her a few questions and answered a few...

  • Frances Hodgson Burnett Quote #8

    How is it that animals understand things I do not know, but it is certain that they do understand. Perhaps there is a language that is not made up of words & everything in this world understands it. Perhaps there is a soul hidden in everything & it can always speak, without making a sound, to another soul.

  • Frances Hodgson Burnett Quote #9

    How is it that animals understand things I do not know, but it is certain that they do understand. Perhaps there is a language which is not made of words and everything in the world understands it. Perhaps there is a soul hidden in everything and it can always speak, without even making a sound, to another soul.

  • Frances Hodgson Burnett Quote #10

    How it is that animals understand things I do not know, but it is certain that they do understand. Perhaps there is a language which is not made of words and everything in the world understands it. Perhaps there is a soul hidden in everything and it can always speak, without even making a sound, to another soul.

  • Frances Hodgson Burnett Quote #11

    I am sure there is Magic in everything, only we have not sence enough to get hold of it and make it do things for us - like electricity and horses and steam.

  • Frances Hodgson Burnett Quote #12

    I am sure there is Magic in everything, only we have not sense enough to get hold of it and make it do things for us

  • Frances Hodgson Burnett Quote #13

    I am writing in the garden. To write as one should of a garden one must write not outside it or merely somewhere near it, but in the garden.

  • Frances Hodgson Burnett Quote #14

    I dare say it is rather hard to be a rat,” she mused. “Nobody likes you. People jump and run away and scream out: ‘Oh, a horrid rat!’ I shouldn’t like people to scream and jump and say: ‘Oh, a horrid Sara!’ the moment they saw me, and set traps for me, and pretend they were dinner. It’s so different to be a sparrow. But nobody asked this rat if he wanted to be a rat when he was made. Nobody said: ‘Wouldn’t you rather be a sparrow?

  • Frances Hodgson Burnett Quote #15

    I know what it is to be hungry, and it is very hard when one cannot even pretend it away. -Sara

  • Frances Hodgson Burnett Quote #16

    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 Quote #17

    If you fill your mind with a beautiful thought, there will be no room in it for an ugly one. - King Amor

  • Frances Hodgson Burnett Quote #18

    If you keep doing it everyday as regularly as soldiers go through drill, we shall see what will happend and find out if the experiment succeeds. You learn things by saying them over and over and thinking about them until they stay in your mind for ever, and I think it will be the same with Magic. If you keep calling it to come to you and help you, it will get to be part of you and it will stay and do things.

  • Frances Hodgson Burnett Quote #19

    Is the spring coming? he said. What is it like?...
    It is the sun shining on the rain and the rain falling on the sunshine...

  • Frances Hodgson Burnett Quote #20

    Magic is in her just as it is in Dickon, said Colin. It makes her think of ways to do things - nice things.

  • Frances Hodgson Burnett Quote #21

    My mother always says people should be able to take care of themselves, even if they're rich and important.

  • Frances Hodgson Burnett Quote #22

    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.

  • Frances Hodgson Burnett Quote #23

    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 Quote #24

    Nothing in the world is so strong as a kind heart

  • Frances Hodgson Burnett Quote #25

    Of course there must be lots of Magic in the world, but people don't know what it is like or how to make it.

  • Frances Hodgson Burnett Quote #26

    Of course there must be lots of Magic in the world, he said wisely one day, but people don't know what it is like or how to make it. Perhaps the beginning is just to say nice things are going to happen until you make them happen. I am going to try and experiment.

  • Frances Hodgson Burnett Quote #27

    One marvel of a day he had walked so far that when he returned the moon was high and full and all the world was purple shadow and silver.

  • Frances Hodgson Burnett Quote #28

    One of the new things people began to find out in the last century was that thoughts- just mere thoughts- are as powerful as electric batteries- as good for one as sunlight is, or as bad for one as poison. To let a sad thought or a bad one get into your mind is as dangerous as letting a scarlet fever germ get into your body. If you let it stay there after it has got you in you may never get over it as long as you live.

  • Frances Hodgson Burnett Quote #29

    One of the new things people began to find out in the last century was that thoughts--just mere thoughts--are as powerful as electric batteries--as good for one as sunlight is, or as bad for one as poison. To let a sad thought or a bad one get into your mind is as dangerous as letting a scarlet fever germ get into your body. If you let it stay there after it has got in you may never get over it as long as you live.

  • Frances Hodgson Burnett Quote #30

    One of the new things people began to find out in the last century was that thoughts—just mere thoughts—are as powerful as electric batteries—as good for one as sunlight is, or as bad for one as poison. To let a sad thought or a bad one get into your mind is as dangerous as letting a scarlet fever germ get into your body. If you let it stay there after it has got in you may never get over it as long as you live... surprising things can happen to any one who, when a disagreeable or discouraged thought comes into his mind, just has the sense to remember in time and push it out by putting in an agreeable determinedly courageous one. Two things cannot be in one place.

    Where you tend a rose, my lad, A thistle cannot grow.

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