Top 45 Jo S Boys Quotes
#1. Even Billy Andrews' boy is going - and Jane's only son - and Diana's little Jack," said Mrs. Blythe. "Priscilla's son has gone from Japan and Stella's from Vancouver - and both the Rev. Jo's boys. Philippa writes that her boys 'went right away, not being afflicted with her indecision.
L.M. Montgomery
#3. 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
#4. ... courage and devotion always stir generous hearts, and win admiration ...
Louisa May Alcott
#5. 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
#6. ... she never had what she wanted till she had given up hoping for,' said Mrs. Meg.
Louisa May Alcott
#7. ... had an hour of silent agony that aged him more than years of happy life could have done.
Louisa May Alcott
#8. ... she rejoiced as only mothers can in the good fortunes of their children.
Louisa May Alcott
#9. ... 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
#10. Dan clung to her in speechless gratitude, feeling the blessedness of mother love, - that divine gift which comforts, purifies, and strengthens all who seek it.
Louisa May Alcott
#11. Men are always ready to die for us, but not to make our lives worth having. Cheap sentiment and bad logic.
Louisa May Alcott
#12. The story of his downfall is soon told; for it came, as so often happens, just when he felt unusually full of high hopes, good resolutions, and dreams of a better life.
Louisa May Alcott
#14. Love should not make us blind to faults, nor familiarity make us too ready to blame the shortcomings we see.
Louisa May Alcott
#15. ... a woman's always safe and comfortable when a fellow's down on his luck.
Louisa May Alcott
#16. ... what splendid dreams young people build upon a word, and how bitter is the pain when the bright bubbles burst.
Louisa May Alcott
#17. Mothers can forgive anything! Tell me all, and be sure that I will never let you go, though the whole world should turn from you.
Louisa May Alcott
#18. ... having learned that people cannot be moulded like clay ...
Louisa May Alcott
#19. And mother-like, Mrs. Jo forgot the threatened chastisement in tender lamentations over the happy scapegrace ...
Louisa May Alcott
#20. ... I'm always ready to talk, shouldn't be a woman if I were not,' laughed Mrs. Jo ...
Louisa May Alcott
#21. I'm tired of praise; and love is very sweet, when it is simple and sincere like this.
Louisa May Alcott
#22. ... misfortune was much more interesting to her than good luck.
Louisa May Alcott
#23. ... for it is a very solemn thing to be arrested in the midst of busy life by the possibility of the great change.
Louisa May Alcott
#24. 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
#25. I can get on with wild beasts first-rate; but men rile me awfully ...
Louisa May Alcott
#26. 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
#27. ... 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
#28. ... that's what old people are here for, - else their experience is of little use.
Louisa May Alcott
#29. I think this power of living in our children is one of the sweetest things in the world ...
Louisa May Alcott
#30. Perhaps it would have been better if he had killed me; my life is spoilt.
Louisa May Alcott
#31. 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
#33. ... it is so much better to work for others than for one's self alone.
Louisa May Alcott
#34. ... he stood behind her, tall and pale, like the ghost of his former self ...
Louisa May Alcott
#35. Don't take it away! It's only a fancy, but a man must love something ...
Louisa May Alcott
#36. Tired of my own company, I suppose, now I've seen so much better.
Louisa May Alcott
#37. The barking hounds ran in and out of the creek, making slapping waves, turning the Georgia earth to mud under the longleaf pines. With the dogs at play, they were, for a lovely short time, naive boys on a glorious summer's day, lost in clamorous youth.
Jo-Ann Costa
#38. I do like men who come out frankly and own that they are not gods.
Louisa May Alcott
#39. 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
#40. ... proved that woman isn't a half but a whole human being, and can stand alone.
Louisa May Alcott
#42. 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
#45. 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
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