78 Quotes by Enid Blyton

They lay on their heathery beds and listened to all the sounds of the night. They heard the little grunt of a hedgehog going by. They saw the flicker of bats overhead. They smelt the drifting scent of honeysuckle, and the delicious smell of wild thyme crushed under their bodies. A reed-warbler sang a beautiful little song in the reeds below, and then another answered.

I just want a sunny, lazy, windy time with the people I like best.

The point is not that I don't recognise bad people when I see them — I grant you I may quite well be taken in by them — the point is that I know a good person when I see one.

Hatred is so much easier to win than love - and so much harder to get rid of.

I don't mind taking orders from them as has the right to give them," she said, "but take orders from that ridiculous bird I will not.

I'm good at exploring roofs. You never know when that kind of thing comes in useful.

The train whistled, and chuffed out of the station. The children pressed their noses to the window and watched the dirty houses and the tall chimneys race by. How they hated the town! How lovely it would be to be in the clean country, with flowers growing everywhere, and birds singing in the hedges! Pg 5

I don't want to grow up,' she thought. 'There can't be anything nicer in the world than this - being with the others, having fun with them. No - I don't want to grow up!

My work in books, films and talks lies almost wholly with children, and I have very little time to give to grown-ups.