78 Quotes by Enid Blyton

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.

Remorse is a terrible thing to bear, Pam, one of the worst of all punishments in this life. To wish undone something you have done, to wish you could look back on kindness to someone you love, instead of on unkindness – that is a very terrible thing.

It wasn’t a bit of good fighting grown-ups. They could do exactly as they liked.

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 believe anyone could light a cigarette from the sparks that fly from your eyes!

Adventures always come to the adventurous, there’s no doubt about that!

You may be a failure at the moment – but you’re a very fine failure, Darrell! You’re a lot better than some people who think they’re a success.

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.

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.