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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.
— Louisa May Alcott
... feeling as if all the happiness and support of their lives was about to be taken from them.
— Louisa May Alcott
Because, what?" "You won't tell?" "Never!" "Well, I have a bad trick
— Louisa May Alcott
Tail wagging like a windscreen wiper in a downpour.
— Louisa Bennet
I'm tired of praise; and love is very sweet, when it is simple and sincere like this.
— Louisa May Alcott
I'm perfectly miserable; but if you consider me presentable, I die happy.
— Louisa May Alcott
Such hours are beautiful to live, but very hard to describe ...
— Louisa May Alcott
Liberty is a better husband than love to many of us.
— Louisa May Alcott
It's so dreadful to be poor!
— Louisa May Alcott
I'd take it manfully, and be respected if I couldn't be loved
— Louisa May Alcott
I was wondering how you and Amy get on together.
— Louisa May Alcott
CHAPTER FOURTEEN SECRETS Jo
— Louisa May Alcott
That was all I wanted! whispered Polly, in a tone which caused him to feel that the race of angels was not entirely extinct.
— Louisa May Alcott
We each are young, we each have a heart, Oh, why should we thus stand coldly apart
— Louisa May Alcott
If life is often so hard as this, I don't see how we ever shall get through it ...
— Louisa May Alcott
Help one another is part of the religion of our sisterhood.
— Louisa May Alcott
I don't like favors; they oppress and make me fell like a slave. I'd rather do everything for myself, and be perfectly independent.
— Louisa May Alcott
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.
— Louisa May Alcott
Ridicule is often harder to bear than self-denial.
— Louisa May Alcott
And best of all, the wilderness of books, in which she could wander, where she liked, made the library a region of bliss to her.
— Louisa May Alcott
And I make so many beginnings there never will be an end.
— Louisa May Alcott
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
Is that my boy?'As sure as this is my girl! — Louisa May Alcott
The emerging woman ... will be strong-minded, strong-hearted, strong-souled, and strong-bodied ... strength and beauty must go together.
— Louisa May Alcott
It's so dreadful to be poor! sighed Meg, looking down at her old dress.
— Louisa May Alcott
Grumbling, as things are at present arranged in this world, does not always, nor I might say often, do good ...
— Mary Louisa Molesworth
If you behaved properly, they would, but knowing you like their nonsense, they keep it up, and then you blame them.
— Louisa May Alcott
Where the heart is the mind works best.
— Louisa May Alcott
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.
— Louisa May Alcott
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.
— Louisa May Alcott
You have been running, Jo. How could you? When will you stop such romping ways? said Meg reprovingly.
— Louisa May Alcott
We live in a beautiful and wonderful world, Demi, and the more you now about it the wiser and the better you will be.
— Louisa May Alcott
... and Aunt Jo retired, satisfied with the success of her last trap to catch a sunbeam.
— Louisa May Alcott
laughter. "Glad to find you so merry, my girls," said a cheery
— Louisa May Alcott
take up your little burdens again, for though they seem heavy sometimes, they are good for us, and lighten as we learn to carry them.
— Louisa May Alcott
strength and beauty must go hand in hand
— Louisa May Alcott
I only mean to say that I have a feeling that it never was intended I should live long. I'm not like the rest of you.
— Louisa May Alcott
Unlocking the treasuries of real home love and mutual helpfulness, which the poorest may possess, and the richest cannot buy.
— Louisa May Alcott
The more one gets the more one wants
— Louisa May Alcott
If every one agreed, we should never get on.
— Louisa May Alcott
... misfortune was much more interesting to her than good luck.
— Louisa May Alcott
A real gentleman is as polite to a little girl as to a woman.
— Louisa May Alcott
I asked for bread, and I got a stone in the shape of a pedestal.
— Louisa May Alcott
For his Atlanta came panting up with flying hair, bright eyes, ruddy cheeks, and no signs of dissatisfaction in her face.
— Louisa May Alcott
Do you consider shoes unhealthy? he asked, surveying the socks with respectful interest
— Louisa May Alcott
Send me all the advice you like. I'll use as much as I can.
— Louisa May Alcott
Now and then, in this workaday world, things do happen in the delightful storybook fashion, and what a comfort that is.
— Louisa May Alcott
But that autumn the serpent got into Meg's paradise, and tempted her like many a modern Eve, not with apples, but with dress.
— Louisa May Alcott
I suspect that the real attraction was a large library of fine books, which was left to dust and spiders since Uncle March died.
— Louisa May Alcott
I rather miss my wild girl; but if I get a strong, helpful, tender-hearted woman in her place, I shall feel quite satisfied.
— Louisa May Alcott
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
Wouldn't it be fun if all the castles in the air which we make could come true and we could live in them?
— Louisa May Alcott
... I'm always ready to talk, shouldn't be a woman if I were not,' laughed Mrs. Jo ...
— Louisa May Alcott
His love and care never tire or change, can never be taken from you, but may become the source of lifelong peace, happiness and strength.
— Louisa May Alcott
I did fail, say what you will, for Jo wouldn't love me.
— Louisa May Alcott
Love will make you show your heart someday...
— Louisa May Alcott
He was a fine man, my dear, but what is better, he was a brave and an honest one, and I was proud to be his friend.
— Louisa May Alcott
Tired of my own company, I suppose, now I've seen so much better.
— Louisa May Alcott
The girls put their wits to work, and - necessity being the mother of invention - made whatever they needed.
— Louisa May Alcott
At this command, to Rose's great dismay, six more hands were offered, and it was evident that she was expected to shake them all.
— Louisa May Alcott
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[It may be true that] men never know a pretty thing when they see it. [But men do] know a lady when they see one.
— Louisa May Alcott
I'm here, hold on to me, Jo, dear!" - Laurie
— Louisa May Alcott
We'll all grow up Meg, no pretending we won't.
— Louisa May Alcott
So she enjoyed herself heartily, and found, what isn't always the case, that her granted wish was all she had hoped.
— Louisa May Alcott
The duty we owe ourselves is greater than that we owe others.
— Louisa May Alcott
If Jo is a tomboy and Amy a goose, what
— Louisa May Alcott
The sweetness of self-denial and self-control,
— Louisa May Alcott
I sell my children, and though they feed me, they don't love me as hers do.
— Louisa May Alcott
Fame is a very good thing to have in the house, but cash is more convenient.
— Louisa May Alcott
I don't worry about the storms, I am learning to sail my own ship.
— Louisa May Alcott
was a long upper hall full
— Louisa May Alcott
I wish I had a horse; then I could run for miles in this splendid air, and not lose my breath." Jo
— Louisa May Alcott
Money is the root of all evil, and yet it is such a useful root that we cannot get on without it any more than we can without potatoes.
— Louisa May Alcott
... she rejoiced as only mothers can in the good fortunes of their children.
— Louisa May Alcott
I shall keep my book on the table here, and read a little every morning as soon as I wake, for I know it will do me good, and help me through the day.
— Louisa May Alcott
Now we are expected to be as wise as men who have had generations of all the help there is, and we scarcely anything.
— Louisa May Alcott
For she had not yet learned to know how rich she was in the blessings which alone can make life happy.
— Louisa May Alcott
It takes people a long time to learn the difference between talent and genius, especially ambitious young men and women.
— Louisa May Alcott
Men are always ready to die for us, but not to make our lives worth having. Cheap sentiment and bad logic.
— Louisa May Alcott
You are the gull, Jo, strong and wild, fond of the storm and the wind, flying far out to sea, and happy all alone.
— Louisa May Alcott
Beautifully gratified, said Mrs. Bhaer, taking Teddy's
— Louisa May Alcott
Tell me what happens next, after my body has frozen. When I can't communicate. What will I be?
— Louisa Hall
It's lovely to see people so happy.
— Louisa May Alcott
It's amazing how lovely common things become, if one only knows how to look at them.
— Louisa May Alcott
I don't see why God made any night; day is so much pleasanter ...
— Louisa May Alcott
The great novelist vibrated between two decanters with the regularity of a pendulum.
— Louisa May Alcott
Do any of us understand ourselves? all the different selves that each of us is?
— Mary Louisa Molesworth
Here! answered a husky voice from above, and, running up, Meg found her
— Louisa May Alcott
The trouble of overseeing a fidgety child when she wanted
— Louisa May Alcott
I could have been a great many things.
— Louisa May Alcott
It is one of her aristocratic tastes, and quite proper, for a real lady is always known by neat boots, gloves, and handkerchief.
— Louisa May Alcott
Elegance has a bad effect on my constitution.
— Louisa May Alcott
You think then, that it is better to have a few duties and live a little for others, do you?
— Louisa May Alcott
Mothers have need of sharp eyes and discreet tongueswhen they have girls to manage — Louisa May Alcott
Louisa, is your life always like this?
— Jojo Moyes