Quote by Frances Hodgson Burnett

When you will not fly into a passion people know you are stronger than they are, because you are strong enough to hold in…

— Frances Hodgson Burnett

“What does it say?" asked my lord. "It says, 'Good-night, God keep you all the night!'--just what she used to say when we were…

— Frances Hodgson Burnett

Somehow, something always happens just before things get to the very worst. It is as if Magic did it. If I could only just…

— Frances Hodgson Burnett

“They were as real as Sara, and it was careless of them not to come out of the story shadowland and say, “Here I…

— Frances Hodgson Burnett

“One of the new things people began to find out in the last century was that thoughts- just mere thoughts- are as powerful as…

— Frances Hodgson Burnett

“I've seen the spring now and I'm going to see the summer. I'm going to see everything grow here. I'm going to grow here…

— Frances Hodgson Burnett

“If she had cried and sobbed and seemed frightened, Miss Minchin might almost have had more patience with her. She was a woman who…

— Frances Hodgson Burnett

“I was thinking," she said. "Beg my pardon immediately," said Miss Minchin. "I will beg your pardon for laughing, if it was rude," said…

— 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, one might…

— Frances Hodgson Burnett

I am sure there is Magic in everything, only we have not sense enough to get hold of it and make it do things…

— Frances Hodgson Burnett

“You don't know that you are saying these things to a princess, and that if I chose I could wave my hand and order…

— Frances Hodgson Burnett

“Well, it is. One of her 'pretends' is that she is a princess. She plays it all the time—even in school. She says it…

— Frances Hodgson Burnett