Dreamy Quote by Elizabeth von Arnim

“I would have all couples neatly paired in years, the forties with the forties, and the twenties with the twenties. Should the forties, as…

— Elizabeth von Arnim

“When I drive to the lupins and see them all spread out as far as eye can reach in perfect beauty of colour and…

— Elizabeth von Arnim

She had been dragged in the most humiliating of all dusts, the dust reserved for older women who let themselves be approached, on amorous…

— Elizabeth von Arnim

What a blessing it is to love books.

— Elizabeth von Arnim

It is beautiful, beautiful to give; one of the very most beautiful things in life.

— Elizabeth von Arnim

“I asked nothing better of life. I still ask nothing better of life. Strange to say—for surely it is strange not to have increased…

— Elizabeth von Arnim

“No one ever said aloud any of the kinds of things he was so constantly thinking, because no one in the parish, not Alice,…

— Elizabeth von Arnim

“The only thing to do with one's old sorrows is to tuck them up neatly in their shroud and turn one's face away from…

— Elizabeth von Arnim

“She belongs to the winter that is past, to the darkness that is over, and has no part or lot in the life I…

— Elizabeth von Arnim

“This radiant weather, when mere living is a joy, and sitting still over the fire out of the question, has been going on for…

— Elizabeth von Arnim

“And when I'm with you," she said, "I feel as if I were stuffed with—oh, with stars.”

— Elizabeth von Arnim

“Here was the world wide-awake and yet only for me, all the fresh pure air only for me, all the fragrance breathed only by…

— Elizabeth von Arnim