46 Quotes by E. Nesbit

There is nothing more luxurious than eating while you read—unless it be reading while you eat. Amabel did both: they are not the same thing, as you will see if you think the matter over.

The nine rubies were used afterwards in agriculture. You had only to throw them out into a field if you wanted it plowed. Then the whole surface of the land turned itself over in its anxiety to get rid of something so wicked, and in the morning the field was found to be plowed as thoroughly as any young man at Oxford.

Don't you think it's rather nice to think that we're in a book that God's writing? If I were writing a book, I might make mistakes. But God knows how to make the story end just right--in the way that's best for us.

I don't agree with you in the least," said Temple— "about marriage, I mean. A man ought to want to get married—" "To anybody? Without its being anybody in particular?" "Yes," said Temple stoutly. "If he gets to thirty without wanting to marry any one in particular, he ought to look about till he finds some one he does want. It's the right and proper thing to marry and have kiddies.

It's an odd thing- the softer and more easily hurt a woman is the better she can screw herself up to do what has to be done.

How many miles to Babylon?Three score and ten!Can I get there by candle light?Yes, and back again?

How many miles to Babylon?Three score and ten!Can I get there by candle light?Yes, and back again!

It wouldn't do to go mixing up the present and the past, and cutting bits out of one to fit into the other.

Gerald's look assured her that he and the others would be as near angels as children could be without ceasing to be human.