Top 33 Blyton Quotes
#1. Ifemelu and Jane laughed when they discovered how similar their childhoods in Grenada and Nigeria had been, with Enid Blyton books and Anglophile teachers and fathers who worshipped the BBC World Service.
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#2. Not at all,' said Moon-Face, leading them up a little lane through the
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#3. Hatred is so much easier to win than love - and so much harder to get rid of.
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#4. Nothing like having a bucket of cold water flung over you to make you see things as they really are!
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#5. It was such a lovely day too, and the sky and sea were so blue. They sat eating and drinking, gazing out to sea, watching the waves break into spray over the rocks beyond the old wreck.
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#6. You're trying to escape from your difficulties, and there never is any escape from difficulties, never. They have to be faced and fought.
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#7. We must have Christian ethics for our children, good and strong, but we must make them attractive, too, and it can be done.
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#8. It wasn't a bit of good fighting grown-ups. They could do exactly as they liked.
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#10. Here Mr Potts come here you little idiot!
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#11. The moon was coming slowly up over the hill in front of them. The countryside was bathed in light, pale and cold and silvery. Everything could be seen quite plainly, and Lotta and Jimmy thought it was just like daytime with the colours missing.
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#12. Oh, I wish I lived in a caravan!' said Jimmy longingly. 'How lovely it must be to live in a house that has wheels and can go away down the lanes and through the towns, and stand still in fields at night!
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#13. A clown needn't be the same out of the ring as he has to be when he's in it. If you look at photographs of clowns when they're just being ordinary men, they've got quite sad faces.
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#14. The best way to treat obstacles is to use them as stepping-stones. Laugh at them, tread on them, and let them lead you to something better.
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#15. When you're paid to do a job, it's better to give a few minutes more to it, than a few minutes less. That's one of the differences between doing a job honestly and doing it dishonestly! See?
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#16. My work in books, films and talks lies almost wholly with children, and I have very little time to give to grown-ups.
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#17. Well, come back and have tea with us," saidMoon-Face. "Silky's got some Pop Biscuits -andI've made some Google Buns. I don't often makethem-and I tell you they're a treat!
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#19. I do love the beginning of the summer hols,' said Julian. They always seem to stretch out ahead for ages and ages.'
'They go so nice and slowly at first,' said Anne, his little sister. 'Then they start to gallop.
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#20. If you can't look after something in your care, you have no right to keep it.
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#21. I'm good at exploring roofs. You never know when that kind of thing comes in useful.
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#22. Remorse is a terrible thing to bear, Pam, one of the worst of all punishments in this life. To wish undone something you have done, to wish you could look back on kindness to someone you love, instead of on unkindness - that is a very terrible thing.
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#23. The point is not that I don't recognise bad people when I see them - I grant you I may quite well be taken in by them - the point is that I know a good person when I see one.
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#24. Writing for children is an art in itself, and a most interesting one.
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#25. I am not really much interested in talking to adults, although I suppose practically every mother in the kingdom knows my name and my books. It's their children I love.
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#26. I have written, probably, more books for children than any other writer, from story-books to plays, and can claim to know more about interesting children than most.
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#27. I think people make their own faces, as they grow.
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#28. If one can judge from the letters that I receive, it would seem that there are many thousands of children who would like me to speak or to read to them.
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#29. Leave something for someone but dont leave someone for something.
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#30. There's a rainbow around every corner is a well known saying and is supposed to make negative people positive.
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#31. Mothers were much too sharp. They were like dogs. Buster always sensed when anything was out of the ordinary, and so did mothers. Mothers and dogs both had a kind of second sight that made them see into people's minds and know when anything unusual was going on.
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#32. I get over a hundred letters a day from all over the world, from children and parents, and it's a wonder I ever have time to write books, let alone speak!
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#33. You simply never know about people,' thought Elizabeth. 'You think because they're timid they'll always be timid, or because they're mean they'll always be mean. But they can change awfully quickly if they are treated right.
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