Quotes from Louisa May Alcott

You are not listening to my moral remarks, Mrs. Laurence,—and Laurie paused, for Amy's eyes had an absent look, though fixed upon his face. Yes I am, and admiring the dimple in your chin at the same time. I don't wish to make you vain, but I must confess that I'm prouder of my handsome husband than of all his money. Don't laugh,—but your nose is such a comfort to me, and Amy softly caressed the well-cut feature with artistic satisfaction.

El cariño destierra el temor y la gratitud vence al orgullo.

So, sitting at the dear little piano, Beth softly touched the keys, and in the sweet voice they had never thought to hear again, sang to her own accompaniment the quaint hymn, which was a singularly fitting song for her.

They haf no right to put poison in the sugarplum, and let the small ones eat it.

There are many Beth's in the world, shy and quiet, sitting in the corners till needed, and living for others so cheerfully that no one sees the sacrifices till the little cricket on the hearth stops chirping, and the sweet, sunshiny presence vanishes, leaving silence and shadow behind.

Mételo en el horno y quizá reviva con el calor.

It's bad enough to be a girl, anyway, when I like boy's games and work and manners! I can't get over my disappointment in not being a boy. And it's worse than ever now, for I'm dying to go and fight with Papa. And I can only stay home and knit, like a poky old woman!

It's so dreadful to be poor! sighed Meg

I'm as handsome as ever, but no one takes any notice of me because I'm married.

I don't like favors, they oppress and make me feel like a slave. I'd rather do everything for myself, and be perfectly independent.

Then I don't feel as if I'd wasted my life. I'm not so good as you make me, but I have tried to do right. And now, when it's too late to begin even to do better, it's such a comfort to know that someone loves me so much, and feels as if I'd helped them.

Once, when he remembered Jo as she sat with the little child in her lap and that new softness in her face, he leaned his head on his hands a minute, and then roamed about the room, as if in search of something that he could not find.

Well, my love, I consider him a trump, in the fullest sense of that expressive word, but I do wish he was a little younger and a good deal richer. Now, Laurie, don't be too fastidious and worldly-minded. If they love one another it doesn't matter a particle how old they are nor how poor. Women never should marry for money... Amy caught herself up short as the words escaped her, and looked at her husband, who replied, with malicious gravity...

I do think washing dishes and keeping things tidy is the worst work in the world.

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

Quien desea de corazón ser mejor, tiene medio camino hecho

Then let me advise you to 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.

Well, the winter's gone, and I've written no books, earned no fortune, but i've made a friend worth baving and I'll try to keep him all my life.

The two older girls were a great deal to one another, but each took one of the younger into her keeping, and watched over her in her own way; 'playing mother' they called it, and put their sisters in the places of discarded dolls, with the maternal instinct of little women.

Hope can comfort love, and faith makes resignation possible.

hearts, like flowers, cannot be rudely handled, but must open naturally

Vaya si lo llevaré, es estupendo... ligero y amplio. Nos hará reír a todos y, con tal de estar cómoda, me tiene sin cuidado ir hecha un desastre.

beginning to desecrate some of the womanliest attributes of a woman's character. She was living in bad society; and, imaginary though it was, its influence affected her, for she was feeding heart and fancy on dangerous and unsubstantial food, and was fast brushing the innocent bloom from her nature by a premature acquaintance with the darker side of life, which comes soon enough to all of us.

I keep turning over new leaves, and spoiling them, as I used to spoil my copybooks, and I make so many beginnings there never will be an end