Top 100 Alcott's Quotes

#1. And it's not red, it's auburn, and I'm not feisty or tempestuous or any of the other things red hair is supposed to signify. Anyways, as I said, it's auburn.

Kate Alcott

Alcott's Quotes #31000
#2. It's highly virtuous to say we'll be good, but we can't do it all at once, and it takes a long pull, a strong pull, and a pull all together before some of us even get our feet set in the right way

Louisa May Alcott

Alcott's Quotes #32352
#3. I shall have to toil and moil all my days, with only little bits of fun now and then, and get old and ugly and sour, because I'm poor, and can't enjoy my life as other girls do. It's a shame!

Louisa May Alcott

Alcott's Quotes #39336
#4. Love Jo all your days, if you choose, but don't let it spoil you, for it's wicked to throw away so many good gifts because you can't have the one you want.

Louisa May Alcott

Alcott's Quotes #59359
#5. I suppose it's natural to some people to please without trying, and others to always say and do the wrong thing in the wrong place.

Louisa May Alcott

Alcott's Quotes #65964
#6. How can girls like to have lovers and refuse them? I think it's dreadful.

Louisa May Alcott

Alcott's Quotes #70216
#7. Mother didn't say anything about our money, and she won't wish us to give up everything. Let's each buy what we want, and have a little fun; I'm sure we work hard enough to earn it, cried Jo, examining the heels of her shoes in a gentlemanly manner.

Louisa May Alcott

Alcott's Quotes #82856
#8. I can get on with wild beasts first-rate; but men rile me awfully ...

Louisa May Alcott

Alcott's Quotes #121852
#9. Boys don't gush, so I can stand it. The last time I let in a party of girls, one fell into my arms and said, "Darling, love me!" I wanted to shake her,' answered Mrs. Jo, wiping her pen with energy.

Louisa May Alcott

Alcott's Quotes #125530
#10. That's it! said Jo to herself, when she at length discovered that genuine good will toward one's fellow men could beautify and dignify even a stout German teacher, who shoveled in his dinner, darned his own socks, and was burdened with the name of Bhaer.

Louisa May Alcott

Alcott's Quotes #143921
#11. Books are the most mannerly of companions, accessible at all times, in all moods, frankly declaring the author's mind, without offense.

Amos Bronson Alcott

Alcott's Quotes #153349
#12. [Jo to her mother] I knew there was mischief brewing. I felt it and now it's worse than I imagined. I just wish I could marry Meg myself, and keep her safe in the family.

Louisa May Alcott

Alcott's Quotes #155220
#13. ... books are always good company if you have the right sort. Let me pick out some for you.' And Mrs. Jo made a bee-line to the well-laden shelves, which were the joy of her heart and the comfort of her life.

Louisa May Alcott

Alcott's Quotes #197709
#14. Don't shut yourself up in a band box because you are a woman, but understand what is going on, and educate yourself to take part in the world's work, for it all affects you and yours.

Louisa May Alcott

Alcott's Quotes #201188
#15. Faber's drawing-pencils;

Louisa May Alcott

Alcott's Quotes #206665
#16. You could argue that if the average golfer plays a golf course with 430-yard par 4s and they always miss the green, that's good practice. It's definitely great practice to play a course that's too long for you.

Amy Alcott

Alcott's Quotes #224716
#17. That's loving our neighbor better than ourselves, and I like it.

Louisa May Alcott

Alcott's Quotes #235503
#18. ... that's what old people are here for, - else their experience is of little use.

Louisa May Alcott

Alcott's Quotes #235832
#19. I think this power of living in our children is one of the sweetest things in the world ...

Louisa May Alcott

Alcott's Quotes #239152
#20. Perhaps it would have been better if he had killed me; my life is spoilt.

Louisa May Alcott

Alcott's Quotes #248777
#21. If all literary women had such thoughtful angels for husbands, they would live longer and write more. Perhaps that wouldn't be such a blessing to the world though, as most of us write too much now,' said Mrs. Jo ...

Louisa May Alcott

Alcott's Quotes #254884
#22. Oft in the silence of the night,
When the lonely moon rides high,
When wintry winds are whistling,
And we hear the owl's shrill cry,
In the quiet, dusky chamber,
By the flickering firelight,
Rising up between two sleepers,
Comes a spirit all in white.

Louisa May Alcott

Alcott's Quotes #293518
#23. Equanimity is the gem in virtue's chaplet, and St. Sweetness the loveliest in her calendar.

Amos Bronson Alcott

Alcott's Quotes #325772
#24. I don't pretend to be wise, but I am observing, and I see a great deal more than you'd imagine. I'm interested in other people's experiences and inconsistencies, and, though I can't explain, I remember and use them for my own benefit.

Louisa May Alcott

Alcott's Quotes #331521
#25. I don't understand it. What can there be in a simple little story like that to make people praise it so?" she said, quite bewildered. "There is truth in it, Jo, that's the secret.

Louisa May Alcott

Alcott's Quotes #360457
#26. That's the interferingest chap I ever see,

Louisa May Alcott

Alcott's Quotes #367226
#27. If every one agreed, we should never get on.

Louisa May Alcott

Alcott's Quotes #372572
#28. Four little chests all in a row,
Dim with dust, and worn by time,
Four women, taught by weal and woe
To love and labor in their prime. "
"Four sisters, parted for an hour,
None lost, one only gone before,
Made by love's immortal power,
Nearest and dearest evermore.

Louisa May Alcott

Alcott's Quotes #380116
#29. I may be strong-minded, but no one can say I'm out of my sphere now, for woman's special mission is supposed to be drying tears and bearing burdens

Louisa May Alcott

Alcott's Quotes #396247
#30. ... it is so much better to work for others than for one's self alone.

Louisa May Alcott

Alcott's Quotes #407979
#31. A lover is not worth having if he's not in earnest.

Louisa May Alcott

Alcott's Quotes #430692
#32. it's easier for me to risk my life for a person than to be pleasant to him when I don't feel like it. It's

Louisa May Alcott

Alcott's Quotes #432446
#33. Jo's breath gave out here, and wrapping her head in the paper, she bedewed her little story with a few natural tears, for to be independent and earn the praise of those she loved were the dearest wishes of her heart, and this seemed to be the first step toward that happy end.

Louisa May Alcott

Alcott's Quotes #440729
#34. ... he stood behind her, tall and pale, like the ghost of his former self ...

Louisa May Alcott

Alcott's Quotes #450973
#35. ... if men and women would only trust, understand, and help one another as my children do, what a capital place the world would be!' and Mrs. Jo's eyes grew absent, as if she was looking at a new and charming state of society in which people lived as happily and innocently as her flock at Plumfield.

Louisa May Alcott

Alcott's Quotes #469696
#36. It's very singular how hard it is to manage your mind,' said Demi, clasping his hands round his knees, and looking up at the sky as if for information upon his favorite topic.

Louisa May Alcott

Alcott's Quotes #488384
#37. I find it poor logic to say that because women are good, women should vote. Men do not vote because they are good; they vote because they are male, and women should vote, not because we are angels and men are animals, but because we are human beings and citizens of this country.

Louisa May Alcott

Alcott's Quotes #497698
#38. John was a mild man, but he was human, and after a long day's work to come home tired, hungry, and hopeful, to find a chaotic house, an empty table, and a cross wife was not exactly conducive to repose of mind or manner.

Louisa May Alcott

Alcott's Quotes #508874
#39. Oh, that is the surprise. It's so lovely, I pity you because you don't know it ...

Louisa May Alcott

Alcott's Quotes #512308
#40. Young people think they never can change, but they do in the most wonderful manner, and very few die of broken hearts.

Louisa May Alcott

Alcott's Quotes #524358
#41. smile upon him far, far from foemen's power. And Mohammed, thinking to look upon a dying slave, shall

Louisa May Alcott

Alcott's Quotes #538515
#42. It's bad enough to be a girl, anyway, when I like boys' games and work and manners!

Louisa May Alcott

Alcott's Quotes #540015
#43. Tired of my own company, I suppose, now I've seen so much better.

Louisa May Alcott

Alcott's Quotes #561462
#44. So she doesn't call desertion, poverty, and hard work troubles? She's a brave little girl, and I shall be proud to know her.

Louisa May Alcott

Alcott's Quotes #566499
#45. I am lonely, sometimes, but I dare say it's good for me ...

Louisa May Alcott

Alcott's Quotes #580083
#46. An old maid, that's what I'm to be. A literary spinster, with a pen for a spouse, a family of stories for children, and twenty years hence a morsel of fame, perhaps ...

Louisa May Alcott

Alcott's Quotes #583389
#47. Time is one's best friend, teaching best of all the wisdom of silence.

Amos Bronson Alcott

Alcott's Quotes #598490
#48. So every day is a battle, and I'm so tired I don't want to live; only it's cowardly to die till you have done something.

Louisa May Alcott

Alcott's Quotes #610390
#49. I do like men who come out frankly and own that they are not gods.

Louisa May Alcott

Alcott's Quotes #618885
#50. November is the most disagreeable month in the whole year," said Margaret, standing at the window one dull afternoon, looking out at the frostbitten garden.
"That's the reason I was born in it," observed Jo pensively, quite unconscious of the blot on her nose.

Louisa May Alcott

Alcott's Quotes #643526
#51. It's so dreadful to be poor!

Louisa May Alcott

Alcott's Quotes #689392
#52. Meg's high-heeled slippers were dreadfully tight, and hurt her, though she would not own it; and Jo's nineteen hair-pins all seemed stuck straight into her head, which was not exactly comfortable; but, dear me, let us be elegant or die.

Louisa May Alcott

Alcott's Quotes #740551
#53. I'd rather see you poor men's wives, if you were happy, beloved, contented, than queen's on thrones, without self-respect and peace.

Louisa May Alcott

Alcott's Quotes #764824
#54. Trouble? Everybody gets into trouble in America
That's what it's about.

Kate Alcott

Alcott's Quotes #773978
#55. Mrs. Jo did not mean the measles, but that more serious malady called love, which is apt to ravage communities, spring and autumn, when winter gayety and summer idleness produce whole bouquets of engagements, and set young people to pairing off like the birds.

Louisa May Alcott

Alcott's Quotes #776156
#56. ... proved that woman isn't a half but a whole human being, and can stand alone.

Louisa May Alcott

Alcott's Quotes #788043
#57. Oh dear, life is pretty tough sometimes, isn't it?

Louisa May Alcott

Alcott's Quotes #807796
#58. Young people seldom turn out as one predicts, so it is of little use to expect anything,' said Mrs. Meg with a sigh. 'If our children are good and useful men and women, we should be satisfied; yet it's very natural to wish them to be brilliant and successful.

Louisa May Alcott

Alcott's Quotes #810572
#59. ... thirst is harder to bear than hunger, heat, or cold.

Louisa May Alcott

Alcott's Quotes #813868
#60. It's amazing how lovely common things become, if one only knows how to look at them.

Louisa May Alcott

Alcott's Quotes #817873
#61. But it did her good, for those whose opinion had real value gave her the criticism which is an author's best education; and when the first soreness was over, she could laugh at her poor little book, yet believe in it still, and feel herself the wiser and stronger for the buffeting she had received.

Louisa May Alcott

Alcott's Quotes #849568
#62. ... for action is always easier than quiet waiting.

Louisa May Alcott

Alcott's Quotes #854536
#63. At this command, to Rose's great dismay, six more hands were offered, and it was evident that she was expected to shake them all.

Louisa May Alcott

Alcott's Quotes #861730
#64. The youngest, aged twelve, could not conceal her disappointment, and turned away, feeling as so many of us have felt when we discover that our idols are very extraordinary men and women.

Louisa May Alcott

Alcott's Quotes #868920
#65. ... the violin - that most human of all instruments ...

Louisa May Alcott

Alcott's Quotes #871409
#66. ( ... ) replied Mrs. March, who took peculiar pleasure in granting Beth's requests because she so seldom asked anything for herself.

Louisa May Alcott

Alcott's Quotes #902089
#67. But that autumn the serpent got into Meg's paradise, and tempted her like many a modern Eve, not with apples, but with dress.

Louisa May Alcott

Alcott's Quotes #904489
#68. ... marriage, they say, halves one's rights and doubles one's duties.

Louisa May Alcott

Alcott's Quotes #915395
#69. The conversations were miles beyond Jo's comprehension, but she enjoyed it, though Kant and Hegel were unknown gods, the Subjective and Objective unintelligible terms, and the only thing 'evolved from her inner consciousness' was a bad headache after it was all over.

Louisa May Alcott

Alcott's Quotes #947556
#70. Traveling is no fool's errand to him who carries his eyes and itinerary along with him.

Amos Bronson Alcott

Alcott's Quotes #951079
#71. Jo's ambition was to do something very splendid; what it was she had no idea, as yet, but left it for time to tell her ...

Louisa May Alcott

Alcott's Quotes #952963
#72. One's life should be sufficiently interesting to furnish entertainment in the record.

Amos Bronson Alcott

Alcott's Quotes #954988
#73. Don't take it away! It's only a fancy, but a man must love something ...

Louisa May Alcott

Alcott's Quotes #990744
#74. O Christie! never think it's time to die till you are called; for the Lord leaves us till we have done our work, and never sends more sin and sorrow than we can bear and be the better for, if we hold fast by Him.

Louisa May Alcott

Alcott's Quotes #993447
#75. I almost wish I hadn't any conscience, it's so inconvenient. If I didn't care about doing right, and didn't feel uncomfortable when doing wrong, I should get on capitally. I can't help wishing, sometimes, that father and mother hadn't been so dreadfully particular about such things. -- Jo

Louisa May Alcott

Alcott's Quotes #1026205
#76. Prosperity suits some people, and they blossom best in a glow of sunshine; others need the shade, and are the sweeter for a touch of frost.

Louisa May Alcott

Alcott's Quotes #1036616
#77. ... courage and devotion always stir generous hearts, and win admiration ...

Louisa May Alcott

Alcott's Quotes #1063102
#78. She could allow herself to think of Jim, too. To remember the energy and the excitement of life bursting from him, surrounding her, making her laugh and dream and think-- that's what he represented. Not security just hope.

Kate Alcott

Alcott's Quotes #1109130
#79. Girls write to ask who the little women marry, as if that was the only aim and end of a woman's life. I won't marry Jo to Laurie to please anyone.

Louisa May Alcott

Alcott's Quotes #1125236
#80. We don't choose our talents; but we needn't hide them in a napkin because they are not just what we want.

Louisa May Alcott

Alcott's Quotes #1148278
#81. Let my name stand among those who are willing to bear ridicule and reproach for the truth's sake, and so earn some right to rejoice when the victory is won.

Louisa May Alcott

Alcott's Quotes #1151635
#82. Movies teach us how to do that,' Carole had confided. 'Create a set, sprinkle a touch of stardust. Who gives a shit if it's real? Just make it good enough to believe.

Kate Alcott

Alcott's Quotes #1156643
#83. It's bad enough to love someone who don't love you, but to have them told of it is perfectly awful. It makes me wild just to think of it. Ah, Fan, I'm getting so ill tempered and envious and wicked, I don't know what will happen to me. - Polly

Louisa May Alcott

Alcott's Quotes #1159627
#84. ... she never had what she wanted till she had given up hoping for,' said Mrs. Meg.

Louisa May Alcott

Alcott's Quotes #1160565
#85. Rivalry adds so much to the charm of one's conquests.

Louisa May Alcott

Alcott's Quotes #1177937
#86. Ah, if I could only feel assured that it was right and not a blind impulse of a weak woman's heart!'" ~Rosamond

Louisa May Alcott

Alcott's Quotes #1184118
#87. It's so dreadful to be poor! sighed Meg, looking down at her old dress.

Louisa May Alcott

Alcott's Quotes #1188482
#88. My favorite books have a personality and complexion as distinctly drawn as if the author's portrait were framed into the paragraphs and smiled upon me as I read his illustrated pages.

Amos Bronson Alcott

Alcott's Quotes #1191139
#89. By gentle words and silent acts of kindness, he had won her reverence and her trust, which now had deepened into woman's truest, purest love.

Louisa May Alcott

Alcott's Quotes #1207666
#90. But young as she was, Jo had learned that hearts, like flowers, cannot be rudely handled, but must open naturally, so though she believed she knew the cause of Beth's new pain, she only said, in her tenderest tone, Does anything trouble you, deary?

Louisa May Alcott

Alcott's Quotes #1211590
#91. Life is an act - most of it, anyway. Get out there today and pretend you're in charge, for goodness' sake. Do you hear me? Lift up your head and pretend." A flicker of a smile passed over her face. "It's the secret to everything.

Kate Alcott

Alcott's Quotes #1216519
#92. It's not half so sensible to leave legacies when one dies as it is to use the money wisely while alive, and enjoy making one's fellow creatures happy with it.

Louisa May Alcott

Alcott's Quotes #1220707
#93. [On her recently widowed father's much younger wife:] My father has been very busy in conjugating the verb to love, and I assure you he declines its moods and tenses inimitably.

Abby May Alcott

Alcott's Quotes #1226781
#94. Stay is a charming word in a friend's vocabulary.

Amos Bronson Alcott

Alcott's Quotes #1232897
#95. ... had an hour of silent agony that aged him more than years of happy life could have done.

Louisa May Alcott

Alcott's Quotes #1232974
#96. ... she rejoiced as only mothers can in the good fortunes of their children.

Louisa May Alcott

Alcott's Quotes #1251935
#97. ... I wanted to show that the mother was the heroine as soon as possible. I'm tired of love-sick girls and runaway wives. We'll prove that there's romance in old women also.

Louisa May Alcott

Alcott's Quotes #1260273
#98. If we are all alive ten years hence, let's meet, and see how many of us have got our wishes, or how much nearer we are then than now.

Louisa May Alcott

Alcott's Quotes #1276987
#99. Here's Meg married and a mamma, Amy flourishing away at Paris, and Beth in love. I'm the only one that has sense enough to keep out of mischief.

Louisa May Alcott

Alcott's Quotes #1312630
#100. She would make a man of me. She puts strength and courage into me as no one else can. She is unlike any girl I ever saw; there's no sentimentality about her; she is wise, and kind, and sweet. She says what she means, looks you straight in the eye, and is as true as steel.

Louisa May Alcott

Alcott's Quotes #1315991

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