897 Quotes by Louisa May Alcott

A holiday isn’t a holiday, without plenty of freedom and fun.

Don’t mind me. I’m as happy as a cricket here.

By gentle words and silent acts of kindness, he had won her reverence and her trust, which now had deepened into woman’s truest, purest love.

There can’t be too much charity!

But please hug and kiss me, everyone, and don’t mind my dress, I want a great many crumples of this sort put into it today.

I don’t believe I shall ever marry; I’m happy as I am, and love my liberty too well to be in any hurry to give it up for any mortal man.

I never thought I should like to wash dishes, but I do,” said Rose, as she sat in a boat after supper lazily rinsing plates in the sea, and rocking luxuriously as she wiped them.

The least of of us have some influence in this big world; and perhaps my little girl can do some good by showing others that a contented heart and a happy face are better ornaments than any Paris can give her.

I want to do something splendid before I go into my castle, something heroic or wonderful that won’t be forgotten after I’m dead. I don’t know what, but I’m on the watch for it, and mean to astonish you all some day.