12 Quotes by Noel Streatfeild

During the last six months the little girl Harriet, without her noticing it, had disappeared and a new Harriet had taken her place. A Harriet who looked much the same outside, but was more of a person inside.

Stick to your dreams, don’t let anyone put you off what you want to do.

It's about that applause I want to speak to you. I want you to remember that when you've done a little dance or a song or sketch, the applause which you get is not only because you yourself have done your best, but because each of those men is seeing in you someone he loves at home, and because of you is able to forget for a little while the unhappiness of not being in his home, and in some cases the great tragedy of not knowing what has happened to the children in his family.

It might have all the same; you never can tell what's magic.

Dignity is trained into royal children before they can toddle, graciousness, consideration for others, an unshakable belief in the greatness of their position.

There is no doubt a new dress is a help under all circumstances.

It was all very well to be ambitious, but ambition should not kill the nice qualities in you.

You never can tell what’s magic.

I wonder’ – Petrova looked up – ‘If other girls had to be one of us, which of us they’d choose to be?