240 Quotes by Frances Hodgson Burnett

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.

If I was a princess-a real princess,” she murmured, “I could scatter largess to the populace. But even if i am only a pretend princess, I can invent little things to do for the people. Things like this. She was just as happy as if it was largess. I’ll pretend that doing things that people like is scattering largess. I’ve scattered largess.

All women are princesses, it is our right.

It will be like a story from the Arabian Nights,” he said. “Only an Oriental could have planned it. It does not belong to London fogs.

He had made himself believe that he was going to get well, which was really more than half the battle.

You can lose a friend in springtime easier than any other season if you’re too curious.

Give her books, and she would devour them and end by knowing them by heart.

There is naught a man or woman can not learn who hath the wit.

It’s so easy that when you begin you can’t stop. You just go on and on doing it always.