Frances Hodgson Burnett Quotes - Page 3

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• Folks who make such a fuss about their rights turn them into wrongs sometimes. -- (from Behind the White Brick)

  Frances Hodgson Burnett

  Rights, White, Bricks

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• 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.

  Frances Hodgson Burnett

  Princess, Gold, Triumph

  Frances Hodgson Burnett (2012). “A Little Princess”, p.146, Collector's Library

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• In the garden there was nothing which was not quite like themselves - nothing which did not understand the wonderfulness of what was happening to them - the immense, tender, terrible, heart-breaking beauty and solemnity of Eggs. If there had been one person in that garden who had not known through all his or her innermost being that if an Egg were taken away or hurt the whole world would whirl round and crash through space and come to an end... there could have been no happiness even in that golden springtime air.

  Frances Hodgson Burnett

  Hurt, Taken, Heart

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

  Frances Hodgson Burnett

  Garden, Long, Alive

  Frances Hodgson Burnett (2003). “The Secret Garden: Centennial Edition”, p.181, Penguin

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

  Frances Hodgson Burnett

  Dream, Spring, Tree

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

  Frances Hodgson Burnett

  Morning, Garden, Years

  Frances Hodgson Burnett (2003). “The Secret Garden: Centennial Edition”, p.67, Penguin

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• Sometimes since I've been in the garden I've looked up through the trees at the sky and I have had a strange feeling of being happy as if something was pushing and drawing in my chest and making me breathe fast. Magic is always pushing and drawing and making things out of nothing. Everything is made out of magic, leaves and trees, flowers and birds, badgers and foxes and squirrels and people. So it must be all around us. In this garden - in all the places.

  Frances Hodgson Burnett

  Flower, Garden, Squirrels

  Dodie Smith, Frances Hodgson Burnett (2012). “Stop What You’re Doing and Read…To Your Daughter: I Capture the Castle & The Secret Garden”, p.419, Random House

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• 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

  Frances Hodgson Burnett

  People, Forever, Magic

  Frances Hodgson Burnett, General Press (2016). “The Secret Garden (Illustrated Edition)”, p.168, GENERAL PRESS

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• One marvel of a day he had walked so far that when he returned the moon was high and full and all the world was purple shadow and silver.

  Frances Hodgson Burnett

  Moon, Purple, Shadow

  Frances Hodgson Burnett (2016). “The Secret Garden”, p.197, Xist Publishing

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

  Frances Hodgson Burnett

  Nice, Thinking, Magic

  Frances Hodgson Burnett, General Press (2016). “The Secret Garden (Illustrated Edition)”, p.158, GENERAL PRESS

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• Mistress Mary Quite Contrary

  Frances Hodgson Burnett

  Mistress, Mary, Contrary

  Frances Hodgson Burnett (2015). “The Secret Garden”, p.11, BookRix

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• The truth is that when one is still a child-or even if one is grown up- and has been well fed, and has slept long and softly and warm; when one has gone to sleep in the midst of a fairy story, and has wakened to find it real, one cannot be unhappy or even look as if one were; and one could not, if one tried, keep a glow of joy out of one's eyes.

  Frances Hodgson Burnett

  Children, Real, Sleep

  Frances Hodgson Burnett (2016). “A Little Princess”, p.137, Xist Publishing

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• There is naught a man or woman can not learn who hath the wit.

  Frances Hodgson Burnett

  Men, Wit, Can Not

  Frances Hodgson Burnett (2016). “A Lady of Quality”, p.92, ShandonPress

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• Of course there must be lots of Magic in the world, but people don't know what it is like or how to make it.

  Frances Hodgson Burnett

  Magic In The World, People, Secret Garden

  Frances Hodgson Burnett (2016). “The Secret Garden”, p.165, Xist Publishing

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• The difficulty will be to keep her from learning too fast and too much. She is always sitting with her little nose burrowing into books. She doesn't read them, Miss Minchin; she gobbles them up as if she were a little wolf instead of a little girl. She is always starving for new books to gobble, and she wants grown-up books--great, big, fat ones--French and German as well as English--history and biography and poets, and all sorts of things. Drag her away from her books when she reads too much.

  Frances Hodgson Burnett

  Girl, Book, English History

  Frances Hodgson Burnett (2016). “A Little Princess”, p.9, Xist Publishing

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• Whatever comes cannot alter one thing.

  Frances Hodgson Burnett

  One Thing

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• At that moment a very good thing was happening to her. Four good things had happened to her, in fact, since she came to Misselthwaite Manor. She had felt as if she had understood a robin and that he had understood her; she had run in the wind until her blood had grown warm; she had been healthily hungry for the first time in her life; and she had found out what it was to be sorry for someone.

  Frances Hodgson Burnett

  Running, Sorry, Blood

  Frances Hodgson Burnett (2016). “The Secret Garden”, p.38, Xist Publishing

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• 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.

  Frances Hodgson Burnett

  Uncles, Children, Selfish

  The Secret Garden ch. 1 (1911)

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• She looked into the staring glass eyes and complacent face, and suddenly a sort of heartbroken rage seized her. She lifted her little savage hand and knocked Emily off the chair, bursting into a passion of sobbing- Sara who never cried.

  Frances Hodgson Burnett

  Heartbroken, Eye, Passion

  Frances Hodgson Burnett (2012). “A Little Princess”, p.96, Courier Corporation

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• If Sara had been a boy and lived a few centuries ago, her father used to say, 'she would have gone about the country with her sword drawn, rescuing and defending everyone in distress. She always wants to fight when she sees people in trouble.

  Frances Hodgson Burnett

  Country, Father, Fighting

  Frances Hodgson Burnett (2015). “A Little Princess”, p.19, Booklassic

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• So long as I know what's expected of me, I can manage.

  Frances Hodgson Burnett

  Long, Expected, Knows

  Frances Hodgson Burnett, General Press (2016). “The Secret Garden (Illustrated Edition)”, p.20, GENERAL PRESS

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

  Frances Hodgson Burnett

  Girl, Book, Care

  Frances Hodgson Burnett (2015). “A Little Princess (Diversion Illustrated Classics)”, p.8, Diversion Books

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• The mug from the washstand was used as Becky's tea cup, and the tea was so delicious that it was not necessary to pretend that it was anything but tea.

  Frances Hodgson Burnett

  Tea, Cups, Used

  Frances Hodgson Burnett (2016). “A Little Princess”, p.134, Xist Publishing

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• The robin flew from his swinging spray of ivy on to the top of the wall and he opened his beak and sang a loud, lovely trill, merely to show off. Nothing in the world is quite as adorably lovely as a robin when he shows off - and they are nearly always doing it.

  Frances Hodgson Burnett

  Wall, Ivy, Lovely

  Frances Hodgson Burnett (2003). “The Secret Garden: Centennial Edition”, p.48, Penguin

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

  Frances Hodgson Burnett

  Goes On, Easy

  Frances Hodgson Burnett (2016). “A Little Princess”, p.21, Xist Publishing

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