240 Quotes by Frances Hodgson Burnett

She felt as if she had lived a long, long time.

If Sara had been a boy and lived a few centuries ago, her father used to say, ’she would have gone about the country with her sword drawn, rescuing and defending everyone in distress. She always wants to fight when she sees people in trouble.

As long as you have a garden you have a future and as long as you have a future you are alive.

There is nothing so nice as supposing. It’s almost like being a fairy. If you suppose anything hard enough it seems as if it were real.

When a man looks at the stars, he grows calm and forgets small things. They answer his questions and show him that his earth is only one of the million worlds. Hold your soul still and look upward often, and you will understand their speech. Never forget the stars.

The very fact that she never made an impudent answer seemed to Miss Minchin a kind of impudence in itself.

Why, we are just the same – I am only a little girl like you. It’s just an accident that I am not you, and you are not me!

If you fill your mind with a beautiful thought, there will be no room in it for an ugly one. – King Amor.

She was so happy that she scarcely dared to breathe.