Frances Hodgson Burnett

death is always sudden however long one waits.

— Frances Hodgson Burnett

“Why, we are just the same - I am only a little girl like you. It's just an accident that I am…

— Frances Hodgson Burnett

There's nothing so strong as rage, except what makes you hold it in—that's stronger. It's a good thing not to answer your…

— Frances Hodgson Burnett

“I--haven’t any mamma in this school.” Sara saw the danger signal, and came out of her dream. She took hold of the…

— Frances Hodgson Burnett

“One frightfully hot morning, when she was about nine years old, she awakened feeling very cross, and she became crosser still when…

— Frances Hodgson Burnett

“SARA CREWE OR WHAT HAPPENED AT MISS MINCHIN'S BY FRANCES HODGSON BURNETT NEW YORK CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS 1891 Copyright, 1888, by CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS.”

— Frances Hodgson Burnett

“There were in this strange nature, depths so awful and profound that it was not to be sounded or to be judged…

— Frances Hodgson Burnett

“it is done and all the world wonders why it was not done centuries ago. One of the new things people began…

— Frances Hodgson Burnett

“When a man is very good and knows a great deal, he is elected president.”

— Frances Hodgson Burnett

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

— Frances Hodgson Burnett

“Sara...looked long and hard at his face. 'Are you learning me by heart, little Sara?' he said... 'No,' she answered. 'I know…

— Frances Hodgson Burnett

You can lose a friend in springtime easier than any other season if you're too curious.

— Frances Hodgson Burnett

“had an active social life and enjoyed telling stories”

— 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

That's what I look at some people for. I like to know about them. I think them over afterward.

— Frances Hodgson Burnett

As long as one has a garden, one has a future. As long as one has a future, one is alive.

— Frances Hodgson Burnett

“fond of driving and the brown cob was a beauty, she felt that she was being given a treat on a level…

— Frances Hodgson Burnett

“I dare say it is rather hard to be a rat," she mused. "Nobody likes you. People jump and run away and…

— Frances Hodgson Burnett

Two things cannot be in one place. Where you tend a rose, my lad, a thistle cannot grow.

— Frances Hodgson Burnett

At that moment a very good thing was happening to her. Four good things had happened to her, in fact, since she…

— Frances Hodgson Burnett

“When I am telling it, it doesn't seem as if it was only made up. It seems more real than you are…

— Frances Hodgson Burnett