Quotes from Frances Hodgson Burnett

Coisas muito mais surpreendentes podem acontecer para qualquer um que, quando um pensamento desagradável ou desencorajador vem à mente, apenas tenha a sabedoria de lembrar a tempo e expulsá-lo substituindo-o por um corajoso com determinação. Duas coisas não podem ocupar o mesmo espaço.

I was thinking, she said. Beg my pardon immediately, said Miss Minchin. I will beg your pardon for laughing, if it was rude, said Sara; but I won't beg your pardon for thinking.

In each century since the beginning of the world wonderful things have been discovered.

It was so new and big and wonderful and such a heavenly color.

To let a sad thought or a bad one get into your mind is as dangerous as letting a scarlet fever germ get knit your body

Por supuesto que debe haber mucha magia en el mundo- dijo sagazmente un día-, pero la gente no sabe cómo es ni cómo hacerla. A lo mejor al principio es decir simplemente cosas bonitas que van a pasar hasta que haces que pasen

It sounds nicer than it seems in the book, she would say. I never cared about Mary, Queen of Scots, before, and I always hated the French Revolution, but you make it seem like a story. It is a story, Sara would answer. They are all stories. Everything is a story—everything in this world. You are a story—I am a story—Miss Minchin is a story. You can make a story out of anything.

Scientific people are always curious and I am going to be scientific.

One of the new things people began to find out in the last century was that thoughts - just mere thoughts - are as powerful as electric batteries - as good for one as sunlight is, or as bad for one as poison.

It was curious how much nicer a person looked when they smiled

Children's as good as 'rithmetic to set you findin' out things.

I could scatter largess to the populace. But even if I am only a pretend princess, I can invent little things to do for people. Things like this. She was just as happy as if it was largess. I'll pretend that to do things people like is scattering largess. I've scattered largess.

She went from place to place, and dug and weeded, and enjoyed herself so immensely that she was led on from bed to bed and into the grass under the trees. The exercise made her so warm that she first threw her coat off, and then her hat, and without knowing it she was smiling down on to the grass and the pale green points all the time.

declared you could see buds unsheath themselves. Also you could make the acquaintance of strange busy insect things running about on various unknown but evidently serious errands, sometimes carrying tiny scraps of straw or feather or food or climbing blades of grass as if they were trees from whose tops one could look out to explore the country.

lad—what's names to th' Joy Maker

Is the spring coming? he said. What is it like? You don't see it in rooms if you are ill. It is the sun shining on the rain and the rain falling on the sunshine, and things pushing up and working under the earth, said Mary.

It's not your fault that you are stupid.

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. People who are fond of books know the feeling of irritation which sweeps over them at such a moment.

He felt the scent and the golden glow of the sunset light as intensely as he felt the dead silence which reigned between himself and Hester almost with the effect of a physical presence.

And mines with diamonds in 'em!" said the cook. "No savin's of mine never goes into no mines--particular diamond ones"--with a side glance at Sara. "We all know somethin' of them .

PoczÄ…tkowo ludzie nie chcÄ… uwierzy?, ?e mo?na dokona? czegoÅ› nowego, pó?niej zaczynajÄ… ufa?, ?e mo?na tego dokona?, pó?niej widzÄ…, ?e siÄ™ ju? dokonuje, a gdy odkrycie jest dokonane, ludzko?? dziwi siÄ™, ?e nie zrobiono ju? tego przed wiekami.

as the plans of march made by great generals in

How does tha' like thysel'?" she inquired, really quite as if she were curious to know.

You can lose a friend in springtime easier than any other season if you're too curious.