It is beautiful, beautiful to give; one of the very most beautiful things in life. — Elizabeth von Arnim Copy Share Image
Life is an admirable arrangement, isn't it, little mother. It is so clever of it to have June in every year and… — Elizabeth von Arnim Copy Share Image
“This radiant weather, when mere living is a joy, and sitting still over the fire out of the question, has been going… — Elizabeth von Arnim Copy Share Image
“Fortunately, though she was hungry, she didn't mind missing a meal. Life was full of meals. They took up an enormous proportion… — Elizabeth von Arnim Copy Share Image
There's no safety in love. You risk the whole of life. But the great thing is to risk -to believe, and to… — Elizabeth von Arnim Copy Share Image
“Up to now I have had fourteen, but they weren’t spread over my life equally, and for years and years at a… — Elizabeth von Arnim Copy Share Image
“Here was the world wide-awake and yet only for me, all the fresh pure air only for me, all the fragrance breathed… — Elizabeth von Arnim Copy Share Image
“Not the least of my many blessings is that we have only one neighbour. If you have to have neighbours at all,… — Elizabeth von Arnim Copy Share Image
“I asked nothing better of life. I still ask nothing better of life. Strange to say—for surely it is strange not to… — Elizabeth von Arnim Copy Share Image
“... and everybody will have what they never yet have had, a certain amount of that priceless boon, leisure-- leisure to sit… — Elizabeth von Arnim Copy Share Image
[Walking] is the perfect way of moving if you want to see into the life of things. It is the one way… — Elizabeth von Arnim Copy Share Image
“Isn't it a mercy that we never get cured of being expectant? It makes life so bearable. However regularly we are disappointed… — Elizabeth von Arnim Copy Share Image
“One should continue (of course with dignity) to develop, however old one may be. She had nothing against developing, against further ripeness,… — Elizabeth von Arnim Copy Share Image
“Oh, I have been thankful often in my life, deeply thankful, but never more deeply than when I found that man was… — Elizabeth von Arnim Copy Share Image
“It seemed, however, that I had. I didn’t want any more, so I got them. And now I am glad, for if,… — Elizabeth von Arnim Copy Share Image
“She belongs to the winter that is past, to the darkness that is over, and has no part or lot in the… — Elizabeth von Arnim Copy Share Image
“I would have all couples neatly paired in years, the forties with the forties, and the twenties with the twenties. Should the forties, as… — Elizabeth von Arnim Copy Share Image
“When I drive to the lupins and see them all spread out as far as eye can reach in perfect beauty of colour and… — Elizabeth von Arnim Copy Share Image
She had been dragged in the most humiliating of all dusts, the dust reserved for older women who let themselves be approached, on amorous… — Elizabeth von Arnim Copy Share Image
It is beautiful, beautiful to give; one of the very most beautiful things in life. — Elizabeth von Arnim Copy Share Image
“I asked nothing better of life. I still ask nothing better of life. Strange to say—for surely it is strange not to have increased… — Elizabeth von Arnim Copy Share Image
“No one ever said aloud any of the kinds of things he was so constantly thinking, because no one in the parish, not Alice,… — Elizabeth von Arnim Copy Share Image
“The only thing to do with one's old sorrows is to tuck them up neatly in their shroud and turn one's face away from… — Elizabeth von Arnim Copy Share Image
“She belongs to the winter that is past, to the darkness that is over, and has no part or lot in the life I… — Elizabeth von Arnim Copy Share Image
“This radiant weather, when mere living is a joy, and sitting still over the fire out of the question, has been going on for… — Elizabeth von Arnim Copy Share Image
“And when I'm with you," she said, "I feel as if I were stuffed with—oh, with stars.” — Elizabeth von Arnim Copy Share Image
“Here was the world wide-awake and yet only for me, all the fresh pure air only for me, all the fragrance breathed only by… — Elizabeth von Arnim Copy Share Image
![“[Walking] is the perfect way of moving if you want to see into the life of things. It is the one way of freedom. If you go to a place on anything but your own feet you are taken there too fast, and miss a thousand delicate joys that were waiting for you by the wayside.” quote by Elizabeth von Arnim](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/38f/elizabeth-von-arnim-2484_delicate_walking-is-the-perfect-way-of-moving-if_2386061.jpg)
