Frances Hodgson Burnett

“ten to one”

— Frances Hodgson Burnett

“So are you,”

— Frances Hodgson Burnett

All women are princesses , it is our right.

— Frances Hodgson Burnett

“I know you by heart. You are inside my heart.”

— Frances Hodgson Burnett

“They're a pair of young Satans.”

— Frances Hodgson Burnett

death is always sudden however long one waits.

— Frances Hodgson Burnett

Whatever comes cannot alter one thing.

— Frances Hodgson Burnett

Mistress Mary Quite Contrary

— Frances Hodgson Burnett

“Oh, how she did love that queer, common boy!”

— Frances Hodgson Burnett

... justice is mercy's highest self.

— Frances Hodgson Burnett

Children's as good as 'rithmetic to set you findin' out things.

— Frances Hodgson Burnett

Soldiers don't complain...I am not going to do it; I will pretend this is part of a war.

— Frances Hodgson Burnett

Only in dreams of spring Shall I ever see again The flowering of my cherry trees.

— Frances Hodgson Burnett

“Tom's Cabin, and she spent many hours acting out”

— Frances Hodgson Burnett

To speak robin to a robin is like speaking French to a Frenchman

— Frances Hodgson Burnett

“Adversity tries people, and mine has tried you and proved how nice you are.”

— Frances Hodgson Burnett

“She could not be made rude and malicious by the rudeness and malice of those about her.”

— Frances Hodgson Burnett

“Donde cuides una rosa, muchacho, No puede crecer un cardo”

— Frances Hodgson Burnett

“Suddenly it seemed as if he might a sort of wood fairy who might be gone when she came into the garden…

— Frances Hodgson Burnett

The mug from the washstand was used as Becky's tea cup, and the tea was so delicious that it was not necessary…

— Frances Hodgson Burnett

“really. But such a nice thing has happened. I have had such a delightful invitation for the first week in August.” “I’m…

— Frances Hodgson Burnett

“Dearest says that is the best kind of goodness; not to think about yourself, but to think about other people.”

— Frances Hodgson Burnett

“It would be easy to be a princess if I were dressed in cloth of gold, but it is a great deal…

— Frances Hodgson Burnett

“Everything as strange and silent, and she seemed to be hundreds of miles away from anyone, but somehow she did not feel…

— Frances Hodgson Burnett

She liked books more than anything else, and was, in fact, always inventing stories of beautiful things and telling them to herself.

— Frances Hodgson Burnett

when the day comes that I kneel by your bedside and see your eyes close, or you kneel by mine, it must…

— Frances Hodgson Burnett

“The mere seeing of Miss Sara would have been enough without meat pies. If there was time only for a few words,…

— Frances Hodgson Burnett

You see, now that trials have come, they have shown that I am NOT a nice child. I was afraid they would.…

— Frances Hodgson Burnett

“She stopped and listened to him and somehow his cheerful, friendly little whistle gave her a pleased feeling--even a disagreeable little girl…

— Frances Hodgson Burnett

“Mountains & low hills would enclose us, & gardens & woods & green spaces would surround us - And each pretty house…

— Frances Hodgson Burnett

“Never did she find anything so difficult as to keep herself from losing her temper when she was suddenly disturbed while absorbed…

— Frances Hodgson Burnett

“He felt as my papa felt,” Sara thought. “He was ill as my papa was; but he did not die.” So her…

— Frances Hodgson Burnett

I shall live forever and ever and ever ' he cried grandly. 'I shall find out thousands and thousands of things. I…

— Frances Hodgson Burnett

“She said that perhaps it was not so easy to be very rich; that if any one had so many things always,…

— Frances Hodgson Burnett

“How does tha' like thysel'?”

— Frances Hodgson Burnett

People never like me and I never like people

— Frances Hodgson Burnett

“stories belong to everybody.”

— Frances Hodgson Burnett

“I'm growing fatter," said Mary,”

— Frances Hodgson Burnett

The air was full of spices... A Little Princess

— Frances Hodgson Burnett

Things happen to people by accident.

— Frances Hodgson Burnett