Jean Webster Quotes

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• I ate breakfast in the kitchen by candle-light, and then drove the five miles to the station through the most glorious October colouring. The sun…
• She never lets ideas interrupt the easy flow of her conversation.
• She was by nature a sunny soul
• It isn't the big troubles in life that require character. Anybody can rise to a crisis and face a crushing tragedy with courage, but to…
• Thank heaven I don't inherit God from anybody! I am free to make mine up as I wish Him. He's kind and sympathetic and imaginative…
• I went to bed last night utterly dejected; I thought I was never going to amount to anything, and that you had thrown away your…
• It isn't the big pleasures that count the most; it's making a great deal out of the little ones.
• The more I study men, the more I realize that they are nothing in the world but boys grown too big to be spankable.
• Her mother was a Rutherford. The family came over in the ark, and were connected by marriage with Henry the VIII. On her father's side…
• The world is full of happiness, and plenty to go round, if you are only willing to take the kind that comes your way.
• This is your heart.Keep it locked until the chap turns up who has the key.
• Half of the time I don't know what they're talking about; their jokes seem to relate to a past that everyone but me has shared.…
• I'm going to enjoy every second, and I'm going to know I'm enjoying it while I'm enjoying it. Most people don't live; they just race.…
• I have an evening dress, pink mull over silk (I'm perfectly beautiful in that), and a blue church dress, and a dinner dress of red…
• Is it snowing where you are? All the world that I see from my tower is draped in white and the flakes are coming down…
• Oh, I'm developing a beautiful character! It droops a bit under cold and frost, but it does grow fast when the sun shines. That's the…
• I believe absolutely in my own free will and my own power to accomplish - and that is the belief that moves mountains.
• It isn't the great big pleasures that count the most; it's making a great deal out of the little ones--I've discovered the true secret of…
• ... in spite of being happier than I ever dreamed I could be, I'm also soberer. The fear that something may happen to you rests…
• He and I always think the same things are funny, and that is such a lot; it's dreadful when two people's senses of humour are…

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