240 Quotes by Frances Hodgson Burnett

Mistress Mary, quite contrary,How does your garden grow?With Silver Bells, and Cockle Shells,And marigolds all in a row.

شاید در هر چیزی روحی وجود دارد که می تواند بدون هیچ صدایی با روح دیگر صجبت کند.

Donde cuides una rosa, muchacho, No puede crecer un cardo

There’s nothing so strong as rage, except what makes you hold it in – that’s stronger.

She could not be made rude and malicious by the rudeness and malice of those about her.

It’s a lonely place. Sometimes it’s the loneliest place in the world.

She is always sitting with her little nose burrowing into books. She doesn’t read them, Miss Minchin; she gobbles them up as if she were a little wolf instead of a little girl.

At first people refuse to believe that a strange new thing can be done, then they begin to hope it can be done, then they see it can be done – then it is done and all the world wonders why it was not done centuries ago.

Dearest says that is the best kind of goodness; not to think about yourself, but to think about other people.