240 Quotes by Frances Hodgson Burnett

Nothing in the world is quite as adorably lovely as a robin when he shows off and they are nearly always doing it.

It was the sweetest, most mysterious-looking place any one could imagine. The high walls which shut it in were covered with the leafless stems of climbing roses which were so thick that they were matted together.

The difficulty will be to keep her from learning too fast and too much. 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. She is always starving for new books to gobble...

Whatever comes cannot alter one thing.

That is the Magic. Being alive is the Magic – being strong is the Magic. The Magic is in me – the Magic is in me.

The sun is shining – the sun is shining. That is the Magic. The flower are growing – the roots are stirring. That is the Magic. Being alive is the Magic – being strong is the Magic. The Magic is in me – the Magic is in me. It is in me – it is in me. In every one of us.

What you have to do with your mind, when your body is miserable, is to make it think of something else.

But I suppose there might be good in things, even if we don’t see it.

She would never tell him and he could stay in his room and never get any fresh air and die if he liked!