I want to be as idle as I can, so that my soul may have time to grow. — Elizabeth von Arnim Copy Share Image
“Dogs being great linguists, she quickly picked up English, far more quickly than I picked up German, so we understood each other… — Elizabeth von Arnim Copy Share Image
“That was a strange thing, the death of Coco. Not that he should die, for owing to the unexpected folly of the… — Elizabeth von Arnim Copy Share Image
Books have their idiosyncrasies as well as people, and will not show me their full beauties unless the place and time in… — 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
“The evil times had come of eking out, of making do. At least, my husband seemed to regard the times we had… — 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
“Just about the time I had my first baby, Cornelia had hers; but there were six of them, to my one. It… — Elizabeth von Arnim Copy Share Image
“Therefore they spent such time as I was housekeeping, eating or sleeping, alone in the greenhouse, and I had to manage as… — Elizabeth von Arnim Copy Share Image
“Now all persons who have spent much of their time in Germany, and certainly all born Germans, have a great fear of… — Elizabeth von Arnim Copy Share Image
“They weren’t. They never have been, for me. Friends, too, though delightful, seemed, at those moments of weariness, only delightful if properly… — 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
