Louisa May Alcott Quotes
Top 100 wise famous quotes and sayings by Louisa May Alcott
Louisa May Alcott Famous Quotes & Sayings
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People don't have fortunes left them in that style nowadays; men have to work and women to marry for money. It's a dreadfully unjust world.
Yes, you do. You get everything you want out of people. I don't know how you do it, but you are a born wheedler." "Thank you. Fire away.
Leave him free, and the mere sense of liberty would content him, joined to the knowledge that his presence was dear to those whom he loved best.
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.
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.
I went [to war] because I couldn't help it. I didn't want the glory or the pay; I wanted the right thing done.
I often think flowers are the angels' alphabet whereby they write on hills and fields mysterious and beautiful lessons for us to feel and learn.
The mere possession of a gun is, in itself, an urge to kill, not only by design, but by accident, by madness, by fright, by bravado.
Politics were as bad as mathematics, and that the mission of politicians seemed to be calling each other names
Miss Kate, though twenty, was dressed with a simplicity which American girls would do well to imitate,
it's easier for me to risk my life for a person than to be pleasant to him when I don't feel like it. It's
All is fish that comes to the literary net. Goethe puts his joys and sorrows into poems, I turn my adventures into bread and butter.
It is an excellent plan to have some place where we can go to be quiet, when things vex or grieve us.
Now and then, in this workaday world, things do happen in the delightful storybook fashion, and what a comfort that is.
Wouldn't it be fun if all the castles in the air which we make could come true and we could live in them?
The emerging woman ... will be strong-minded, strong-hearted, strong-souled, and strong-bodied ... strength and beauty must go together.
Here's Meg married and a mamma, Amy flourishing away at Paris, and Beth in love. I'm the only one that has sense enough to keep out of mischief.
To the great delight of two ducks, four cats, five hens and half a dozen Irish children; for they were out of the city for now.
You have been running, Jo. How could you? When will you stop such romping ways? said Meg reprovingly.
I suspect that the real attraction was a large library of fine books, which was left to dust and spiders since Uncle March died.
It is one of her aristocratic tastes, and quite proper, for a real lady is always known by neat boots, gloves, and handkerchief.
The girls put their wits to work, and - necessity being the mother of invention - made whatever they needed.
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.
I was thinking what a curious thing love is; only a sentiment, and yet it has power to make fools of men and slaves of women.
That boy is a perfect cyclops, isn't he? said Amy one day, as Laurie clattered by on horseback, with a flourish of his whip as he passed.