240 Quotes by Frances Hodgson Burnett

Mistress Mary Quite Contrary.

You are real, aren’t you?” he said. “I have such real dreams very often. You might be one of them.

You learn things by saying them over and over and thinking about them until they stay in your mind forever and I think it will be the same with Magic. If you keep calling it to come to you and help you it will get to be part of you and it will stay and do things.

The mug from the washstand was used as Becky’s tea cup, and the tea was so delicious that it was not necessary to pretend that it was anything but tea.

Neither do I – to speak truth. But I suppose there might be good in things, even if we don’t see it.

It made her think that it was curious how much nicer a person looked when he smiled. She had not thought of it before.

The Magic in this garden has made me stand up and know I am going to live to be a man.

One of the new things people began to find out in the last century was that thoughts – just mere thoughts – are as powerful as electric batteries – as good for one as sunlight is, or as bad for one as poison.

People who are fond of books know the feeling of irritation which sweeps over them at such a moment.