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Little Women QUOTES

Little Women QUOTES

1 " 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 , Little Women

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

― Louisa May Alcott , Little Women

3 " life and love are very precious when both are in full bloom. "

― Louisa May Alcott , Little Women

4 " I never wanted to go away, and the hard part now is the leaving you all. I'm not afraid, but it seems as if I should be homesick for you even in heaven. "

― Louisa May Alcott , Little Women

5 " Have regular hours for work and play; make each day both useful and pleasant, and prove that you understand the worth of time by employing it well. Then youth will bring few regrets, and life will become a beautiful success. "

― Louisa May Alcott , Little Women

6 " Conceit spoils the finest genius. "

― Louisa May Alcott , Little Women

7 " But, like all happiness, it did not last long… "

― Louisa May Alcott , Little Women

8 " Well, I am happy, and I won't fret, but it does seem as if the more one gets the more one wants… "

― Louisa May Alcott , Little Women

9 " Dear me! how happy and good we'd be, if we had no worries! "

― Louisa May Alcott , Little Women

10 " …feeling as if all the happiness and support of their lives was about to be taken from them. "

― Louisa May Alcott , Little Women

11 " ...and Jo laid the rustling sheets together with a careful hand, as one might shut the covers of a lovely romance, which holds the reader fast till the end comes, and he finds himself alone in the work-a-day world again. "

― Louisa May Alcott , Little Women

12 " John Brooke is acting dreadfully, and Meg likes it! "

― Louisa May Alcott , Little Women

13 " …wisely mingled poetry and prose. "

― Louisa May Alcott , Little Women

14 " 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 , Little Women

15 " Every few weeks she would shut herself up in her room, put on her scribbling suit, and fall into a vortex, as she expressed it, writing away at her novel with all her heart and soul, for till that was finished she could find no peace. "

― Louisa May Alcott , Little Women

16 " Your father, Jo. He never loses patience,--never doubts or complains,--but always hopes, and works and waits so cheerfully, that one is ashamed to do otherwise before him. He helped and comforted me, and showed me that I must try to practise all the virtues I would have my little girls possess, for I was their example. It was easier for your sakes than for my own; a startled or surprised look from one of you, when I spoke sharply, rebuked me more than any words could have done; and the love, respect, and confidence of my children was the sweetest reward I could receive for my efforts to be the woman I would have them copy. "

― Louisa May Alcott , Little Women

17 " She preferred imaginary heroes to real ones, because when tired of them, the former could be shut up in the tin kitchen till called for, and the latter were less manageable. "

― Louisa May Alcott , Little Women

18 " Be comforted, dear soul! There is always light behind the clouds. "

― Louisa May Alcott , Little Women

19 " I think she is growing up, and so begins to dream dreams, and have hopes and fears and fidgets, without knowing why or being able to explain them. "

― Louisa May Alcott , Little Women

20 " In her secret soul, however, she decided that politics were as bad as mathematics, and that the mission of politicians seemed to be calling each other names… "

― Louisa May Alcott , Little Women