240 Quotes by Frances Hodgson Burnett

My mother always says people should be able to take care of themselves, even if they’re rich and important.

Don’t let us make it tidy,” said Mary anxiously. “It wouldn’t seem like a secret garden if it was tidy.

A body ‘as to move gentle an’ speak low when wild things is about.

People never like me and I never like people.

Magic is always pushing and drawing and making things out of nothing.

There’s nothing so strong as rage, except what makes you hold it in – that’s stronger. It’s a good thing not to answer your enemies. I scarcely ever do.

Of course there must be lots of magic in the world but people don’t know what it is like or how to make it. Perhaps the beginning is just to say nice things are going to happen until you make them happen.

Two worst things as can happen to a child is never to have his own way – or always to have it.

The magic in this garden has made me stand up and know I am going to live to be a man. I am going to make the scientific experiment of trying to get some and put it in myself and make it push and draw me and make me strong. I don’t know how to do it, but I think that if you keep thinking about it and calling it perhaps it will come.