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Eleanor Porter Quotes

Eleanor Porter quotes

American Novelist, Writer December 19, 1868 – May 21, 1920

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Eleanor Porter quote: "It'll be just lovely for you to play -- it'll be so hard. And..."
It'll be just lovely for you to play -- it'll be so hard. And there's so much more fun when it is hard! Eleanor Porter
What men and women need is encouragement. Their natural resisting powers should be strengthened, not weakened...Instead of always harping on a man's faults, tell him of his virtues. Try to pull him out of his rut...Hold up to him his better self, his real self that can dare and do and win out!...People radiate what is in their minds and in their hearts. Eleanor Porter
One day it was about getting married that mother talked with me, and I said I was so glad that when you didn't like being married, or got tired of your husband, you could get Unmarried. Eleanor Porter
Oh, yes," nodded Pollyanna, emphatically. He [her father] said he felt better right away, that first day he thought to count 'em. He said if God took the trouble to tell us eight hundred times [in the Bible] to be glad and rejoice, He must want us to do it - SOME. Eleanor Porter
Eleanor Porter quote: "It's funny how dogs and cats know the inside of folks better..."
It's funny how dogs and cats know the inside of folks better than other folks do, isn't it? Eleanor Porter
Miss Polly actually stamped her foot in irritation. "There you go like the rest," she shouted. "What game?" At last Nancy told her all about the story of how the crutches arrived instead of a doll, and how Pollyanna's father had taught her that there was always something to be glad about. Miss Polly couldn't believe it. "how can someone ever be glad of crutches?" she demanded to know. "Simple" said Nancy. "In Pollyanna's case, she could be glad she didn't need them! Eleanor Porter
Eleanor Porter quote: "My relationship with "Pollyanna" is a very personal one,..."
My relationship with "Pollyanna" is a very personal one, because Pollyanna got me through my childhood. Eleanor Porter
Eleanor Porter quote: "Be glad. Be good. Be brave."
Be glad. Be good. Be brave. Eleanor Porter
Eleanor Porter quote: "Oh, but Aunt Polly, Aunt Polly, you haven't left me any time..."
Oh, but Aunt Polly, Aunt Polly, you haven't left me any time at all just to- to live. Eleanor Porter
Then you--weren't lovers?" Pollyanna's voice was tragic with dismay."Never!"And it isn't all coming out like a book? . . . Oh dear! And it was all going so splendidly," almost sobbed Pollyanna. "I'd have been so glad to come--with Aunt Polly."And you won't--now?" The man asked the question without turning his head."Of course not! I'm Aunt Polly's! Eleanor Porter
Aunt Polly is all stirred up over it. You see, she wants Uncle Tom to have what he wants, only she wants him to want what she wants him to want. See?" Mrs. Carew laughed suddenly. (22) Eleanor Porter
I was growlin' one day 'cause I was so bent up and crooked; an'what do ye s'pose the little thing said? ... She said I could be glad, anyhow, that I didn't have ter stoop so far ter do my weedin' - 'cause I was already bent part way over. Eleanor Porter
Eleanor Porter quote: "Oh, yes; the game was to just find something about everything..."
Oh, yes; the game was to just find something about everything to be glad about—no matter what 'twas Eleanor Porter
I long ago discovered that you can't TELL about Pollyanna. The minute you try to, she sounds priggish and preachy, and--impossible. Yet you and I know she is anything but that. Eleanor Porter
Eleanor Porter quote: "Just breathing isn't living!"
Just breathing isn't living! Eleanor Porter

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