Beauty Quote by Kate Douglas Wiggin

If I haven't anything to write, I am just as anxious to 'take my pen in hand' as though I had a message to…

— Kate Douglas Wiggin

The old stage coach was rumbling along the dusty road that runs from Maplewood to Riverboro. The day was as warm as midsummer, though…

— Kate Douglas Wiggin

If you make children happy now, you will make them happy twenty years hence by the memory of it.

— Kate Douglas Wiggin

“[Julia Carey] had never, even when very young, experienced a desire to sit at the feet of superior wisdom, always greatly preferring a chair…

— Kate Douglas Wiggin

“Nancy was more impulsive than industrious, more generous than wise, more plucky than prudent; she had none too much perseverance and no patience at…

— Kate Douglas Wiggin

Lord, I do not ask that Thou shouldst give me wealth; only show me where it is, and I will attend to the rest.

— Kate Douglas Wiggin

To make my diary a little different I am going to call it a Thought Book ... I have thoughts that I never can…

— Kate Douglas Wiggin

There are certain narrow, umimaginative, and autocratic old people who seem to call out the most mischievous and sometimes the worst traits in children.

— Kate Douglas Wiggin

Never miss a joy in this world of trouble-that's my theory!… Happiness, like mercy,is twice blest: it blesses those most intimately associated with it…

— Kate Douglas Wiggin

There are some who possess the magic touch, the infectious spirit of enthusiasm; who have the same effect as a beautiful morning that never…

— Kate Douglas Wiggin

Why is it that the people with whom one loves to be silent are also the very ones with whom one loves to talk?

— Kate Douglas Wiggin

There is nothing so debilitating to a naturally weak sense of humor as selling tickets behind a grating.

— Kate Douglas Wiggin