Little Women Quotes - Page 2

• …to the inspiration of necessity, we owe half the wise, beautiful, and useful blessings of the world.

  Louisa May Alcott

  Beautiful, Wise, Inspiration

  J. M. Barrie, Charles Dickens, Johanna Spyri, Louisa May Alcott, L. Frank Baum (2015). “Greatest Christmas Novels in One Volume: Life and Adventures of Santa Claus, Heidi, The Romance of a Christmas Card, The Little City of Hope, The Wonderful Life, Little Women, Anne of Green Gables, Little Lord Fauntleroy, Peter Pan…”, p.874, e-artnow

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• I want to do something splendid… Something heroic or wonderful that won’t be forgotten after I’m dead… I think I shall write books.

  Louisa May Alcott

  Book, Writing, Thinking

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• Prove that you understand the worth of time by employing it well.

  Louisa May Alcott

  Play Time, Work And Play, Wells

  Louisa May Alcott (1872). “Little women, or, Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy. [Followed by Good wives]”, p.111

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• Well, yeah! Now they're considered golden oldies, which is awesome. I was watching Little Women recently, and I didn't want to get up for fear of missing something. And Heathers is like my own Rocky Horror Picture Show; I recite the lines when it's on. It may seem odd, but I think it's because they're really good movies.

  Winona Ryder

  Thinking, Missing, Good Movie

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• …on some occasions, women, like dreams, go by contraries.

  Louisa May Alcott

  Dream, Occasions, Contrary

  J. M. Barrie, Charles Dickens, Johanna Spyri, Louisa May Alcott, L. Frank Baum (2015). “Greatest Christmas Novels in One Volume: Life and Adventures of Santa Claus, Heidi, The Romance of a Christmas Card, The Little City of Hope, The Wonderful Life, Little Women, Anne of Green Gables, Little Lord Fauntleroy, Peter Pan…”, p.1102, e-artnow

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• You don’t need scores of suitors. You need only one… if he’s the right one.

  Louisa May Alcott

  Needs, Suitors, Score

  "Fictional character: Younger Amy March". "Little Women", www.imdb.com. December 21, 1994.

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• 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

  Queens, Men, Self

  Louisa May Alcott (2014). “Little Women”, p.106, Trajectory Inc

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• So you're the little woman who wrote the book that made this great war!

  Abraham Lincoln

  War, Women, Book

  Quoted in McClure's Magazine, Apr. 1911.

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• Never let the sun go down upon your anger.

  Roger N. Walsh

  Sun, Spirituality

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• I'd rather take coffee than compliments just now.

  Louisa May Alcott

  Coffee, Compliment, Funny Coffee

  J. M. Barrie, Charles Dickens, Johanna Spyri, Louisa May Alcott, L. Frank Baum (2015). “Greatest Christmas Novels in One Volume: Life and Adventures of Santa Claus, Heidi, The Romance of a Christmas Card, The Little City of Hope, The Wonderful Life, Little Women, Anne of Green Gables, Little Lord Fauntleroy, Peter Pan…”, p.1006, e-artnow

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• 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

  Years, Wish, Alive

  J. M. Barrie, Charles Dickens, Johanna Spyri, Louisa May Alcott, L. Frank Baum (2015). “Greatest Christmas Novels in One Volume: Life and Adventures of Santa Claus, Heidi, The Romance of a Christmas Card, The Little City of Hope, The Wonderful Life, Little Women, Anne of Green Gables, Little Lord Fauntleroy, Peter Pan…”, p.728, e-artnow

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• Then I read Little Women, and of course, like a lot of really young girls, I was very taken with Jo - Jo being the writer and the misfit.

  Patti Smith

  Girl, Taken, Littles

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• Why become well-versed in science and the arts if not to impress a lovely little woman?

  Leopold von Sacher-Masoch

  Art, Lovely, Littles

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• I have a little tiny Emily Dickinson so big that I carry in my pocket everywhere. And you just read three poems of Emily. She is so brave. She is so strong. She is such a sexy, passionate, little woman. I feel better.

  Maurice Sendak

  Sexy, Strong, Feel Better

  "NOW" with Bill Moyers, www.pbs.org. March 12, 2004.

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• I’m not like the rest of you; I never made any plans about what I’d do when I grew up; I never thought of being married, as you did. I couldn’t seem to imagine myself anything but stupid little Beth, trotting about at home, of no use anywhere but there. I never wanted to go away, and the hard part now is leaving you all. I’m not afraid, but it seems as if I should be homesick for you even in heaven.

  Louisa May Alcott

  Stupid, Home, Heaven

  Louisa May Alcott (2015). “Annotated Little Women with English Grammar Exercises: by Louisa May Alcott (Author), Robert Powell (Editor)”, p.495, Powell Publications, LLC

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• Girls are so queer you never know what they mean. They say No when they mean Yes, and drive a man out of his wits for the fun of it.

  Louisa May Alcott

  Girl, Fun, Mean

  1869 Little Women, pt.2, ch.35.

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• I never had a particularly strong craving to procreate, except for earlier fantasies of wanting to be Marmee in Little Women.

  Anne Lamott

  Strong, Littles, Fantasy

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• I've got the key to my castle in the air, but whether I can unlock the door remains to be seen.

  Louisa May Alcott

  Keys, Air, Doors

  Louisa May Alcott (2016). “The 'Little Women' Trilogy (Illustrated)”, p.116, ShandonPress

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• The immense accretion of flesh which had descended on her in middle life like a flood of lava on a doomed city had changed her from a plump active little woman with a neatly-turned foot and ankle into something as vast and august as a natural phenomenon. She had accepted this submergence as philosohpically as all her other trials, and now, in extreme old age, was rewarded by presenting to her mirror an almost unwrinkled expanse of firm pink and white flesh, in the centre of which the traces of a small face survived as if awaiting excavation.

  Edith Wharton

  Mirrors, August, Cities

  Edith Wharton (2014). “Edith Wharton The Dover Reader”, p.271, Courier Corporation

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• Christmas won't be Christmas without any presents.

  Louisa May Alcott

  Christmas

  1868 Little Women, pt.1, ch.1.

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• Money is a needful and precious thing, and when well used, a noble thing, but I never want you to think it is the first or only prize to strive for. I'd rather see you poor men's wives, if you were happy, beloved, contented, than queens on thrones, without self-respect and peace.

  Louisa May Alcott

  Happiness, Money, Queens

  Louisa May Alcott (1993). “Little Women”, p.97, Wordsworth Editions

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• Who was this women?' asked Harry. 'I dunno, some Ministry hag.' Mundungus considered for a moment, brow wrinkled. 'Little women. Bow on top of er' head.' He frowned and then added, 'Looked like a toad.' Harry dropped his wand. Harry looked up and saw his own shock reflected in Ron and Hermione's faces. The scars on the back of right hand seemed to be tingling again.

  J. K. Rowling

  Hands, Ron And Hermione, Faces

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• But, like all happiness, it did not last long.

  Louisa May Alcott

  Long, Lasts

  J. M. Barrie, Charles Dickens, Johanna Spyri, Louisa May Alcott, L. Frank Baum (2015). “Greatest Christmas Novels in One Volume: Life and Adventures of Santa Claus, Heidi, The Romance of a Christmas Card, The Little City of Hope, The Wonderful Life, Little Women, Anne of Green Gables, Little Lord Fauntleroy, Peter Pan…”, p.598, e-artnow

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• 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

  Ambition, Ideas, Splendid

  Louisa May Alcott (2015). “The Complete Works of Louisa May Alcott (Illustrated): Novels, Short Stories, Plays & Poems: Little Women, Good Wives, Little Men, Jo's Boys, A Modern Mephistopheles, Eight Cousins, Rose in Bloom, Jack and Jill, Behind a Mask, The Abbot's Ghost…”, p.331, e-artnow

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• I think men have got to change an awful lot. They still prefer the little woman.

  Bette Davis

  Men, Thinking, Littles

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