78 Quotes by Enid Blyton

You're trying to escape from your difficulties, and there never is any escape from difficulties, never. They have to be faced and fought.

Oh, I wish I lived in a caravan!’ said Jimmy longingly. ‘How lovely it must be to live in a house that has wheels and can go away down the lanes and through the towns, and stand still in fields at night!

A clown needn't be the same out of the ring as he has to be when he's in it. If you look at photographs of clowns when they're just being ordinary men, they've got quite sad faces.

I wonder where you got that idea from? I mean, the idea that it's feeble to change your mind once it's made up. That's a wrong idea, you know. Make up your mind about things, by all means - but if something happens to show that you are wrong, then it is feeble not to change your mind, Elizabeth. Only the strongest people have the pluck to change their minds, and say so, if they see they have been wrong in their ideas.

I think people make their own faces, as they grow.

Don't be an old dirty leaf, be a neat new leaf if you are an old dirty leaf you can't feed the plant and the plant will throw you from it if you are a neat new leaf you can feed the plant and the plant will keep you with it. The old dirty leaf means bad habits. The neat new leaf means good habits. The plant means every one around you.

I'm on the side of law & order & right - & to my mind they're worth while running any risk for. Evil is strong & powerful, but I'm strong & powerful too, & it's good to try one's strength against bad men & their ways.

Well you needn't have any 'feelings' about mountains," said Philip. "Mountains are all the same - just tops, middles and bottoms, sometimes with sheep on and sometimes without.

The best way to treat obstacles is to use them as stepping-stones. Laugh at them, tread on them, and let them lead you to something better.