E. Nesbit Quotes
There are brown eyes in the world, after all, as well as blue, and one pair of brown that meant heaven to me as the blue had never done
There is a curtain, thin as gossamer, clear as glass, strong as iron, that hangs forever between the world of magic and the world that seems to us to be real.
Ladylike is the beastliest word there is, I think. If a girl isn't a lady, it isn't worth while to be only like one, she'd better let it alone and be a free and happy bounder.
The chestnut's proud, and the lilac's pretty, The poplar's gentle and tall, But the plane tree's kind to the poor dull city - I love him best of all.
Time is, as you are probably aware, merely a convenient fiction. There is no such thing as time.
There is nothing more luxurious than eating while you read - unless it be reading while you eat. Amabel did both: they are not the same thing, as you will see if you think the matter over.
I think everyone in the world is friends if you can only get them to see you don't want to be un-friends.
It is curious that nearly all the great fortunes are made by turning beautiful things into ugly ones. Making beauty out of ugliness is very ill-paid work.
It is not, Dear, because I am alone, For I am lonelier when the rest are near, But that my place against your heart has grown Too dear to dream of when you are not here.
One of the uses of poetry - one says it to oneself in distressing circumstances, ... or when one has to wait at railway stations, or when one cannot get to sleep at night.
I never read prefaces, and it is not much good writing things just for people to skip. I wonder other authors have never thought of this.
The thing that goes the farthest towards making life worth while, That costs the least, and does the most, is just a pleasant smile.
It's full of worth and goodness too with manly kindness blent It's worth a million dollars and it doesn't cost a cent.
It's not respectable, ' she said. And when people say that, it's no useanyone's saying anything.
How many miles to Babylon?Three score and ten!Can I get there by candle light?Yes, and back again!
How many miles to Babylon?Three score and ten!Can I get there by candle light?Yes, and back again?
I don't understand, " says Gerald, alone in his third- class carriage, "how railway trains and magic can go on at the same time."And yet they do.
For really there is nothing like wings for getting you into trouble. But, on the other hand, if you are in trouble, there is nothing like wings for getting you out of it.
This shows you that even mistakes are sometimes valuable, so do not be hard on grown-up people if they are wrong sometimes.
Gerald's look assured her that he and the others would be as near angels as children could be without ceasing to be human.
Trying not to believe things when in your heart you are almost sure they are true, is as bad for the temper as anything I know.
It wouldn't do to go mixing up the present and the past, and cutting bits out of one to fit into the other.
It's an odd thing- the softer and more easily hurt a woman is the better she can screw herself up to do what has to be done.
There is nothing more luxurious than eating while you read—unless it be reading while you eat. Amabel did both: they are not the same thing, as you will see if you think the matter over.
