21 Quotes by Eleanor Porter

I should think you could be gladder on Monday mornin' than any other day in the week, because 'twould be a whole week before you'd have another one!

Of course things you don't know about are always nicer'n things you do, same as the pertater on 'tother side of the plate is always the biggest.

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.

Oh, yes," nodded Pollyanna, emphatically. He [her father] said he felt better right away, that first day he thought to count 'em. He said if God took the trouble to tell us eight hundred times [in the Bible] to be glad and rejoice, He must want us to do it - SOME.

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

Be glad. Be good. Be brave.

The influence of a beautiful, helpful, hopeful character is contagious. ... People radiate what is in their minds and in their hearts.

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

You lose such a lot of time just sleeping ... when you might just be living! ... It seems such a pity we can't live nights too.