Frances Hodgson Burnett

On the hob was a little brass kettle, hissing and boiling; spread upon the floor was a warm, thick rug; before the…

— Frances Hodgson Burnett

“Now, young ladies, I have a few words to say to you,” she announced. “She’s going to make a speech,” whispered one…

— Frances Hodgson Burnett

“Lady Maria’s charity-knitting which she had taken up. Emily was so gratified that she found conversation easy. She did not realise that…

— Frances Hodgson Burnett

My mother always says people should be able to take care of themselves, even if they're rich and important.

— Frances Hodgson Burnett

“stories belong to everybody.”

— Frances Hodgson Burnett

“Lottie was so delighted that she quite forgot her first shocked impression of the attic. In fact, when she was lifted down…

— Frances Hodgson Burnett

“Mistress Mary, quite contrary, How does your garden grow? With Silver Bells, and Cockle Shells, And marigolds all in a row.”

— Frances Hodgson Burnett

“Diamond mines spell ruin oftener than they spell wealth,” said Mr. Barrow. “When a man is in the hands of a very…

— Frances Hodgson Burnett

“The Secret Garden was what Mary called it when she was thinking of it. She liked the name, and she liked still…

— Frances Hodgson Burnett

The difficulty will be to keep her from learning too fast and too much. She is always sitting with her little nose…

— Frances Hodgson Burnett

“This novel was in a sense developed in stages. First published as a series in St. Nicholas Magazine in 1887 as Sara…

— Frances Hodgson Burnett

“Once on a dark winter's day, when the yellow fog hung so thick and heavy in the streets of London that the…

— Frances Hodgson Burnett

“There!” Ermengarde heard her say. “Take it and go home, Melchisedec! Go home to your wife!” Almost immediately Sara opened the door,…

— Frances Hodgson Burnett

“Just at that moment Ermengarde almost jumped off the bed, she was so startled by a sound she heard. It was like…

— Frances Hodgson Burnett

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

— Frances Hodgson Burnett

“It was a way of hers always to want to spring into any fray in which someone was made uncomfortable or unhappy.”

— Frances Hodgson Burnett

“Nature having made her for a giver — had not the least idea what she meant to poor Becky, and how wonderful…

— Frances Hodgson Burnett

“He had made himself believe that he was going to get well, which was really more than half the battle.”

— Frances Hodgson Burnett

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

— Frances Hodgson Burnett

The Magic in this garden has made me stand up and know I am going to live to be a man.

— Frances Hodgson Burnett

“When I was at school my jography told as th' world was shaped like a orange an' I found out before I…

— Frances Hodgson Burnett

“She had seen other children go away, and had heard their fathers and mothers talk about the letters they received from them.…

— Frances Hodgson Burnett

“When Miss Minchin sent her sister, Miss Amelia, to see what the child was doing, she found she could not open the…

— Frances Hodgson Burnett

“To see each of his ugly, selfish motives changed into a good and generous one by the simplicity of a child was…

— Frances Hodgson Burnett

“Papa won’t be very long now,” she said. “May we talk about the lost little girl?” “I don’t think I could talk…

— Frances Hodgson Burnett