28 Quotes by Eleanor H. Porter

I long ago discovered that you can’t TELL about Pollyanna. The minute you try to, she sounds priggish and preachy, and – impossible. Yet you and I know she is anything but that.

My relationship with “Pollyanna” is a very personal one, because Pollyanna got me through my childhood.

Oh, but Aunt Polly, Aunt Polly, you haven’t left me any time at all just to- to live.

The sun was slowly setting in the west, casting golden beams of light into the somber old room.

When you look for the bad, expecting it, you will get it. When you know you will find the good – you will get that...

There was a thoughtful frown on the face of the man who was the possessor of twenty million dollars.

It isn’t given to us to see ends. We can only attend to the beginnings and make them right.

What men and women need is encouragement. Their natural resisting powers should be strengthened, not weakened... Instead of always harping on a man’s faults, tell him of his virtues.

It’ll be just lovely for you to play – it’ll be so hard. And there’s so much more fun when it is hard!