Books Quote by Jean Webster

“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…

— Jean Webster

“Please be thinking about me. I'm quite lonely and I want to be thought about”

— Jean Webster

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…

— Jean Webster

... in spite of being happier than I ever dreamed I could be, I'm also soberer. The fear that something may happen to you…

— Jean Webster

“Do you want to know something? I have three pairs of kid gloves. I've had kid mittens before from the Christmas tree, but never…

— Jean Webster

“I don't believe it pays to be a great author.”

— Jean Webster

“Examinations are even entertaining, if you know the right answers.”

— Jean Webster

“Her eyes wandered back to the campus again, and she suddenly grew sober as the thought swept over her that in a few weeks…

— Jean Webster

I think that the most necessary quality for any person to have is imagination. It makes people able to put themselves in other people's…

— Jean Webster

I went to bed last night utterly dejected; I thought I was never going to amount to anything, and that you had thrown away…

— Jean Webster

“One does not miss what one has never had.”

— Jean Webster

“You remember that illuminated text over the dining-room door--"The Lord Will Provide." We've painted it out, and covered the spot with rabbits. It's all…

— Jean Webster