All Elizabeth von Arnim Quotes
- If your lot makes you cry and be wretched, get rid of it and take another; strike out for yourself; don't listen to the shriek… Afraid
- Reading was very important; the proper exercise and development of one's mind was a paramount duty. Development
- Well, I for one am unable to imagine how anybody who lives with an intelligent and devoted dog can every be lonely. Anybody
- The longer I live the greater is my respect for manure in all its forms. All
- And the summer seems as though it would dream on for ever. Dream
- She made him think of his mother, of his nurse, of all things kind and comforting, besides having the attraction of not being his mother… All
- Life is an admirable arrangement, isn't it, little mother. It is so clever of it to have June in every year and a morning in… Admirable
- For I'm afraid of loneliness; shiveringly, terribly afraid. I don't mean the ordinary physical loneliness, for here I am, deliberately travelled away from London to… Afraid
- I have been much afflicted again lately by visitors . . . and they gave me to understand that if they had had the arranging… Afflicted
- Home is the best place when life begins to wobble. Begins
- Impossible for anyone to conceive the torments of his nights in bed with his beloved one and estranged from her. That turning of backs, that… Anyone
- I would recommend to those persons who are inclined to stagnate, whose blood is beginning to thicken sluggishly in their veins, to try keeping four… Beginning
- If one believed in angels one would feel that they must love us best when we are asleep and cannot hurt each other; and what… Angel
- Who can begin conventional amiability the first thing in the morning? Amiability
- Books have their idiosyncrasies as well as people, and will not show me their full beauties unless the place and time in which they are… Beauties
- What a blessing it is to love books. Blessing
- Beauty made you love, and love made you beautiful. Beautiful
- ... Why, it would really be being unselfish to go away and be happy for a little, because we would come back so much nicer. Come Back
- I want to be as idle as I can, so that my soul may have time to grow. Grow
- On wet days I will go into the thickest parts of the forest, where the pine needles are everlastingly dry, and when the sun shines… Broom
- What a blessing it is to love books. Everybody must love something, and I know of no objects of love that give such substantial and… Blessing
- But it is impossible, I find, to tidy books without ending by sitting on the floor in the middle of a great untidiness and reading. Book
- When I got to the library I came to a standstill, - ah, the dear room, what happy times I have spent in it rummaging… Ah
- [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… Delicate
- She belongs to the winter that is past, to the darkness that is over, and has no part or lot in the life I shall… Beauty