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Frances Hodgson Burnett Quotes

Frances Hodgson Burnett quotes

English Playwright, Writer November 24, 1849 – October 29, 1924

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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
How it is that animals understand things I do not know, but it is certain that they do understand. Perhaps there is a language which is not made of words and everything in the world understands it. Perhaps there is a soul hidden in everything and it can always speak, without even making a sound, to another soul. Frances Hodgson Burnett
I dare say it is rather hard to be a rat," she mused. "Nobody likes you. People jump and run away and scream out, 'Oh, a horrid rat!' I shouldn't like people to scream and jump and say, 'Oh, a horrid Sara!' the moment they saw me. And set traps for me, and pretend they were dinner. Frances Hodgson Burnett
Never did she find anything so difficult as to keep herself from losing her temper when she was suddenly disturbed while absorbed in a book. Frances Hodgson Burnett
Frances Hodgson Burnett quote: "I don't like it, papa," she said. "But then I dare say..."
I don't like it, papa," she said. "But then I dare say soldiers - even brave ones - don't really like going into battle. Frances Hodgson Burnett
Frances Hodgson Burnett quote: "are you learning me by heart little Sara No I know you by..."
are you learning me by heart little Sara No I know you by heart you are inside my heart Frances Hodgson Burnett
Frances Hodgson Burnett quote: "What you have to do with your mind, when your body is..."
What you have to do with your mind, when your body is miserable, is to make it think of something else. Frances Hodgson Burnett
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
The mere fact that Lottie had come and gone away again made things seem a little worse-just as perhaps prisoners feel a little more desolate after visitors come and go, leaving them behind. Frances Hodgson Burnett
Oh, Sara. It is like a story." "It is a story... everything is a story. You are a story-I am a story. Miss Minchin is a story. Frances Hodgson Burnett
She says it has nothing to do with what you look like, or what you have. It has only to do with what you think of and what you do. Frances Hodgson Burnett
Frances Hodgson Burnett quote: "The Magic in this garden has made me stand up and know I am..."
The Magic in this garden has made me stand up and know I am going to live to be a man. Frances Hodgson Burnett
Frances Hodgson Burnett quote: "She made herself stronger by fighting with the wind."
She made herself stronger by fighting with the wind. Frances Hodgson Burnett
Frances Hodgson Burnett quote: "As long as you have a garden you have a future and as long as..."
As long as you have a garden you have a future and as long as you have a future you are alive. Frances Hodgson Burnett
It's true," she said. "Sometimes I do pretend I am a princess. I pretend I am a princess, so that I can try and behave like one. Frances Hodgson Burnett

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