Top 100 Frances Hodgson Burnett Quotes

#1. Dr. Warren was of the mental build of the man whose life would be interesting and full of outlook if it were spent on a desert island or in the Bastille.

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#2. He's been spoiled 'til salt won't save him.

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#3. Locations have been

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#4. Their eyes met with a singular directness of gaze. Between them a spark passed which was not afterwards to be extinguished, though neither of them knew the moment of its kindling ...

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#5. Two lads an' a little lass just lookin' on at th' springtime. I warrant it'd be better than doctor's stuff.

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#6. You are nothing but a doll. Nothing but a doll
doll
doll! You care for nothing. You are stuffed with sawdust. You never had a heart. Nothing could ever make you feel. You are a doll!

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#7. stories belong to everybody.

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#8. Yorkshire word and means spoiled and

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#9. Whatever comes," she said, "cannot alter one thing. If I am a princess in rags and tatters, I can be a princess inside. It would be easy to be a princess if I were dressed in cloth of gold, but it is a great deal more of a triumph to be one all the time when no one knows it.

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#10. If you look the right way, you can see that the whole world is a garden.

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#11. Thoughts - just mere thoughts - are as powerful as electric batteries - as good for one as sunlight is, or as bad for one as poison.

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#12. Everything's a story - You are a story -I am a story.

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#13. Perhaps there is a language which is not made of words and everything in the world understands it.

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#14. Fair fresh leaves, and buds - and buds - tiny at first but swelling and working Magic until they burst and uncurled into cups of scent delicately spilling themselves over their brims and filling the garden air.

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#15. I wish you had a 'little missus' who could pet you as I used to pet papa when he had a headache. I should like to be your 'little missus' myself, poor dear! Good night-good night. God bless you!

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#16. All that I do is right - for me. I make it so by doing it. Do you think that I am conquered by the laws that other women crouch and whine before, because they dare not break them, though they long to do so? I am my own law - and the law of some others.

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#17. Adversity tries people, and mine has tried you and proved how nice you are.

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#18. Death is always sudden however long one waits.

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#19. Somehow, something always happens just before things get to the very worst. It is as if Magic did it. If I could only just remember that always. The worse thing never quite comes.

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#20. She liked books more than anything else, and was, in fact, always inventing stories of beautiful things and telling them to herself.

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#21. Oh,Sara. It is like a story." "It is a story ... everything is a story. You are a story-I am a story. Miss Minchin is a story.

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#22. Into a passion and beat and kicked her, she looked only

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#23. It's so easy that when you begin you can't stop. You just go on and on doing it always.

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#24. Nothing is more interesting than repressed emotion. The appearance of sardonic coldness and stoicism which has deceived you is but a hollow mockery; beneath it I secrete a maelstrom of impassioned feeling and a mausoleum of blighted hopes.

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#25. Never thee stop believin' in th' Big Good Thing an' knowin' th' world's full of it - and call it what tha' likes. Tha' wert singin' to it when I come into t' garden.

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#26. her chest began to rise and fall with a quickening of her breath, and her breath quickened because her heart fluttered - as if with her haste.

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#27. "It's so beautiful!" she said, a little breathless with her speed. "You never saw anything so beautiful! It has come! I thought it had come that other morning, but it was only coming. It is here now! It has come, the Spring!"

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#28. you are going to be sent home....
I 'm glad of it
but where's HOME ?

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#29. Perhaps it is the key to the garden!

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#30. Dickon says anything will understand if you're friends with it for sure, but you have to be friends for sure.

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#31. I know what it is to be hungry, and it is very hard when one cannot even pretend it away. -Sara

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#32. A body 'as to move gentle an' speak low when wild things is about.

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#33. To speak robin to a robin is like speaking French to a Frenchman

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#34. Perhaps to be able to learn things quickly isn't everything. To be kind is worth a great deal to other people ... Lots of clever people have done harm and have been wicked.

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#35. The tea was so delicious that it was not necessary to pretend it was anything but tea.

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#36. When new beautiful thoughts began to push out the old hideous ones, life began to come back to him, his blood ran healthily through his veins and strength poured into him like a flood.

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#37. She was a sweet, pretty thing and he'd have walked the world over to get her a blade o' grass she wanted.

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#38. Nothing in the world is quite as adorably lovely as a robin when he shows off and they are nearly always doing it.

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#39. As long as one has a garden, one has a future. As long as one has a future, one is alive.

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#40. dream - the real - real dream.

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#41. Magic is in her just as it is in Dickon," said Colin. "It makes her think of ways to do things - nice things.

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#42. I don't like it, papa," she said. "But then I dare say soldiers - even brave ones - don't really like going into battle.

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#43. Whole monstrosity growing more huge and throwing out new and more awful tentacles every day.

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#44. The mere fact that Lottie had come and gone away again made things seem a little worse-just as perhaps prisoners feel a little more desolate after visitors come and go, leaving them behind.

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#45. So she began to feel a slight interest in Dickon, and as she had never before been interested in any one but herself, it was the dawning of a healthy sentiment. When

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#46. She did not care very much for other little girls, but if she had plenty of books she could console herself.

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#47. The worst thing never quite comes.

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#48. Only in dreams of spring
Shall I ever see again
The flowering of my cherry trees.

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#49. When Mary Lennox was sent to Misselthwaite Manor to live with her uncle everybody said she was the most disagreeable-looking child ever seen. It was true too ... she was as tyrannical and selfish a little pig as ever lived.

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#50. It was the sweetest, most mysterious-looking place any one could imagine. The high walls which shut it in were covered with the leafless stems of climbing roses which were so thick that they were matted together.

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#51. Justice is mercy's highest self.

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#52. Is the spring coming?" he said. "What is it like?" ...
"It is the sun shining on the rain and the rain falling on the sunshine ...

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#53. She wished she could talk as he did. His speech was so quick and easy. It sounded as if he liked her and was not the least afraid she would not like him, though he was only a common moor boy, in patched clothes and with a funny face and a rough, rusty-red head.

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#54. Perhaps, the beginning is just to say nice things are going to happen until you make them happen.

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#55. In the last century more amazing things were found out than in any century before. In this new century hundreds of things still more astounding will be brought to light.

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#56. We trifle with France and labour with Germany, we sentimentalize over Italy and ecstacise over Spain- but England we love.

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#57. Everything is made out of Magic,

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#58. I shall live forever and ever and ever ' he cried grandly. 'I shall find out thousands and thousands of things. I shall find out about people and creatures and everything that grows - like Dickon - and I shall never stop making Magic. I'm well I'm well

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#59. The stillness seemed to hold her and she paused to hear and feel it.

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#60. And a man who is six feet three in height has six feet and three inches of evil to do battle with, if he has not six feet three of strength and honesty to fight for him.

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#61. There's nothing so strong as rage, except what makes you hold it in - that's stronger. It's a good thing not to answer your enemies. I scarcely ever do.

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#62. My mother always says people should be able to take care of themselves, even if they're rich and important.

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#63. Sara saw that privately she could not help hoping very much that they would all be black, and would wear turbans,

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#64. bein' on th' stepladder lookin, over th' wall. But I'll tell

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#65. Innocent little villages full of homes torn and trampled under foot and burned!" the Duchess almost cried out. "And worse things than that - worse things!

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#66. It made her think that it was curious how much nicer a person looked when he smiled. She had not thought of it before.

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#67. Little Princess Little Lord

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#68. But I suppose there might be good in things, even if we don't see it.

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#69. However many years she lived, Mary always felt that 'she should never forget that first morning when her garden began to grow'.

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#70. Don't let us make it tidy," said Mary anxiously. "It wouldn't seem like a secret garden if it was tidy.

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#71. If nature has made you a giver, your hands are born open, and so is your heart. And though there may be times when your hands are empty, your heart is always full, and you can give things out of that.

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#72. She would never tell him and he could stay in his room and never get any fresh air and die if he liked!

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#73. I wish I was friends with things," he said at last, "but I'm not. I never had anything to be friends with, and I can't bear people.

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#74. I dare say you could live without me, Sara; but I couldn't live without you. I was nearly dead.

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

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#76. To let a sad thought or a bad one get into your mind is as dangerous as letting a scarlet fever germ get into your body.

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#77. Of course there must be lots of Magic in the world," he said wisely one day, "but people don't know what it is like or how to make it. Perhaps the beginning is just to say nice things are going to happen until you make them happen. I am going to try and experiment.

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#78. Lady Maria's charity-knitting which she had taken up. Emily was so gratified that she found conversation easy. She did not realise that at that particular

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#79. When I lie by myself and remember I begin to have pains everywhere and I think of things that make me begin to scream because I hate them so. If there was a doctor anywhere who could make you forget you were ill instead of remembering it I would have him brought here.

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#80. Pig! Pig! Daughter of Pigs! she said, because to call a native a pig is the worst insult of all.

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#81. If Mary Lennox had been a child who was ready to be amused she would perhaps have laughed at Martha's readiness to talk, but Mary only listened to her coldly and wondered at her freedom of manner.

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#82. Really. But such a nice thing has happened. I have had such a delightful invitation for the first week in August." "I'm sure you'll enjoy it, miss," said Jane. "It's so hot in August.

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#83. You learn things by saying them over and over and thinking about them until they stay in your mind forever and I think it will be the same with Magic. If you keep calling it to come to you and help you it will get to be part of you and it will stay and do things.

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#84. I'm lonely, she said. She had not known before that this was one of the things which made her feel sour and cross.

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#85. Was looked at askance, and that in the bearing of each member of the group there was a defiance of the general opinion. Roxholm sat on his horse somewhat apart from this group watching it, his kinsman and

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#86. It's a lonely place. Sometimes it's the loneliest place in the world.

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#87. Why, we are just the same - I am only a little girl like you. It's just an accident that I am not you, and you are not me!

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#88. She herself could not have explained the reasons for her silence;

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#89. I do not know whether many people realize how much more than is ever written there really is in a story - how many parts of it are never told - how much more really happened than there is in the book one holds in one's hand and pores over.

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#90. I am a princess. All girls are. Even if they live in tiny old attics. Even if they dress in rags, even if they aren't pretty, or smart, or young. They're still princesses.

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#91. When the day comes that I kneel by your bedside and see your eyes close, or you kneel by mine, it must be that the one who waits behind shall know the parting is not all.

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#92. Two things cannot be in one place. Where you tend a rose, my lad, a thistle cannot grow.

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#93. The mere fact of her sufferings and adventures made her a priceless possession.

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#94. Tis a barbaric fancy," said Roxholm thoughtfully as he turned the stem of his glass, keeping his eyes fixed on it as though solving a problem for himself. "A barbaric fancy that a woman needs a master. She who is strong enough is her own conqueror
as a man should be master of himself.

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#95. Praise God from whom all blessings flow, Praise Him all creatures here below, Praise Him above ye Heavenly Host, Praise Father, Son, and Holy Ghost. Amen.

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#96. A person who was clever ought to be clever enough not to be unjust or deliberately unkind to anyone.

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#97. The air was full of spices... A Little Princess

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#98. Dickon, and Dickon brought his tame animals, and, if you'll credit it, sir, out of doors he

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#99. You either build up or you tear down. You either keep in the light where you can see, or you stand in the dark and fight everything that comes near you, because you can't see and you think it's an enemy.

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#100. Two worst things as can happen to a child is never to have his own way - or always to have it.

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