30 Quotes by Kate Douglas Wiggin

You may have noted the fact that it is a person’s virtues as often as his vices that make him difficult to live with.

There are certain narrow, umimaginative, and autocratic old people who seem to call out the most mischievous and sometimes the worst traits in children.

Some folks mistakes all they see for all there is.

It is very funny, but you do not always have to see people to love them. Just think about it, and see if it isn’t so.

Lord, I do not ask that Thou shouldst give me wealth; only show me where it is, and I will attend to the rest.

Yes, Mr. Popham is a Methodist and I’m a Congregationalist, but I say let the children go where they like, so I always take them with me.

Nothing but writing rests me; only then do I seem completely myself!

Father doesn’t think very sudden, but he thinks awful strong.

One cannot see callers, answer the telephone, go to luncheons or dinners, visit the dentist or shoemaker, address charitable organizations in or from a bed; therefore a bed, in my experience, is simply bristling with ideas.